RACHEL RILEY was awarded £10,000 in damages by a High Court judge today after suing a former aide to Jeremy Corbyn for libel following an exchange on Twitter.

The 35-year-old TV presenter complained about a tweet that Laura Murray posted more than two years ago.

Mr Justice Nicklin said that Ms Riley was “entitled” to “vindication,” but said there had been a “clear element of provocation” in the tweet she had posted.

The tweets were posted after Mr Corbyn, who was then Labour leader, was hit with an egg while visiting a mosque in March 2019.

Ms Riley initially 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 the words “good advice” along with emojis of a red rose and an egg.

Ms Murray had later tweeted: “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.”

In response to the ruling, Jewish Voice for Labour expressed its solidarity with Ms Murray and said that “yet again a UK court has found against supporters of Jeremy Corbyn.”

“The attacks on Jeremy Corbyn, his staff and his supporters (including us as Jews) have been unceasing,” its statement said. “We hope that other pending legal cases will have a fairer outcome.”