Countdown star was victim of Corbyn aide’s ‘dog whistle’

Countdown star Rachel Riley was libelled by a former Jeremy Corbyn staffer who ‘dog whistled’ her followers to cause a Twitter ‘pile on,’ the High Court heard. Ms Riley, 35, claims a 2019 tweet published by Laura Murray, a senior aide to the then Labour leader, has seriously harmed her reputation. Ms Murray’s tweet accused Ms Riley of saying ‘Corbyn deserves to be violently attacked’ and called for the public not to engage with her. The row began after an…