This is a judgment on meaning in a libel claim between the blogger Richard Millett, and Jeremy Corbyn MP, former leader of the Labour Party.
The complaint stems from an interview given on the BBC Andrew Marr Show, when Corbyn was still the leader of the party. A video had surfaced of a meeting from 2013, in which Corbyn had described people who had attended a meeting as “not understanding English irony.” There was a public row about whether this statement was a form of antisemitism, and Andrew Marr asked Corbyn about this. In his response, Corbyn said that he was responding to people who has been “disruptive” and “abusive” in the meeting. Continue reading “Judgment Summary: Millett v Corbyn [2020] EWHC 1848 (QB)”