Countdown: Rachel Riley announces break from the show
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Rachel Riley, 36, who appears on the Channel 4 show Countdown, won a claim against Laura Murray, who use to work for the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. His former aide has lost an appeal against a High Court libel ruling which ordered her to pay £10,000 damages to the television presenter after a Twitter row.
The row started when Corbyn, as Labour leader, was hit with an egg during a visit to a mosque in March 2019.
Ms Riley posted a screenshot of a January 2019 tweet by Guardian columnist Owen Jones about an attack on former British National Party leader Nick Griffin, which said: “I think sound life advice is, if you don’t want eggs thrown at you, don’t be a Nazi.”
She added “Good advice”, with emojis of a red rose and an egg.
Later, Ms Murray tweeted: “Today Jeremy Corbyn went to his local mosque for Visit My Mosque Day, and was attacked by a Brexiteer.
“Rachel Riley tweets that Corbyn deserves to be violently attacked because he is a Nazi. This woman is as dangerous as she is stupid. Nobody should engage with her. Ever.”
Ms Riley said she was being sarcastic in her tweet, did not call Mr Corbyn a Nazi, and told the judge that Ms Murray’s tweet caused serious harm to her reputation.
The TV star sued for libel, arguing her Tweet had been sarcastic and she had not called Mr Corbyn a “Nazi”.
Ms Murray mounted an appeal against her defeat in the High Court libel trial, but Court of Appeal judges on Thursday dismissed her challenge.
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