THE fragile peace in Labour’s bitter civil war has been smashed after a leaked report revealed senior management in the party worked to undermine Jeremy Corbyn.

MP Richard Burgon said the dossier showed the party would have won 2017’s snap General Election if it hadn’t been for “all the sabotage”.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has launched an inquiry, saying “the content and the release of the report into the public domain raise a number of matters of serious concern”.

According to Sky News, who first shared details of the document over the weekend, the document was drawn up to help inform the party’s responses to an investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

The watchdog launched a probe into antisemitism in Labour last May.

The 860-page document looks at relations between the leader’s office (LOTO), Labour headquarters (HQ), and the Governance and Legal Unit (GLU). It claims an “abnormal intensity of factional opposition” to Corbyn “inhibited the proper functioning” of the party.

The dossier seemingly contains many emails and WhatsApp messages between HQ staffers during this time.

Those missives include staff members describing Corbynites as “Trots” and “nutters”.

They include discussion around “hanging and burning” Jeremy Corbyn, and calling chief of staff Karie Murphy “Medusa”, “crazy”, a “bitch face cow” and “crazy snake head lady”, and saying her face “would make a good dartboard”.

It also offers an insight into the relationship between the Scottish party and colleagues in London.

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard was initially ignored by Labour HQ when he tried to suspend a council leader accused of Islamophobia, a new leaked internal party document has revealed.

In January 2018, Anas Sarwar (pictured with Leonard) revealed that South Lanarkshire councillor Davie McLachlan had declined to back him in the party’s leadership contest as “Scotland wouldn’t vote for a brown Muslim Paki”.

According to the leaked document, Scottish general secretary Brian Roy sought advice from the GLU and said Leonard supported “suspension pending investigation”.

The party didn’t initially respond, but, when chased, said suspending a council leader would need the approval of Jeremy Corbyn. “It’s a massive step and one we rarely do,” they said. Eventually McLachlan was suspended, although a committee cleared him of making the comments.

On November 3, 2014, one senior manager discussed trying to stop a “Trot” from being selected as Labour’s candidate for a parliamentary seat in Scotland.

The report claims the party wanted an all women shortlist to stand in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, but Gordon Brown “apparently kicked off & told them they can’t”.

“He must have someone in mind”, one member of the management team said. “Aye it’ll be some knobber like Alex Rowley”, another replied.

The party was also reluctant to take action against a house of three party members who put a small SNP poster inside the window with the words “c**t”,“liar” and “hypocrite” and arrows pointing at Nicola Sturgeon.

Roy said he was worried about the poster appearing in the local press on the day before the election and asked HQ if it could “suspend immediately”.

A GLU staff member told Roy that because one of the three people in the house was 15 “it might look worse if we suspend him (technically a child)”.

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