Labour MP makes bullying claim over Jeremy Corbyn team's list of names

A complaint about bullying has been made to Labour's chief whip after Jeremy Corbyn's team issued a roll call of MPs it claims have abused the leader and his allies.

Leading figures in the party were name-checked over their alleged behaviour since Mr Corbyn took the party's top job.

But the leader's campaign team said the press release was a draft that had not been signed off and was issued accidentally.

It has apologised to the party's deputy leader, Tom Watson, but it is not clear if that has been extended to the other MPs named.

One of those identified has now written to chief whip Rosie Winterton and Iain McNicol, the party's general secretary.

The complaint by the unnamed MP said the action amounted to "harassment and bullying by the leader of the parliamentary party" and said it was "not acceptable for Labour MPs to be deliberately victimised by the leader of our party in this way".