They say opposites attract but the battle brewing between Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn is evidence to the contrary. The pair have become embroiled in a war of words and now Jezza has got the long arm of the law involved.

Last night Corbyn took to Twitter to announce that he was planning to sue Farage. The GB News presenter, he complained, had made ‘a highly defamatory statement’ about the Independent MP, who went on to rage about the ‘disgusting and malicious lies’.

Corbyn’s spokesperson has alleged that Farage accused the former Labour leader of ‘subscribing to an antisemitic conspiracy theory’ on his GB News show on Wednesday 28 February. It appears to all come back to a rather strange Facebook comment left by Corbyn in 2012.

After a Los Angeles-based artist called Mear One announced on social media that a mural he had painted in East London was to be removed, Corbyn publicly questioned why it had to go. The former Labour leader appeared to miss the fact that the mural was filled with depictions of tropes that Corbyn himself later described as ‘antisemitic‘.

Farage is certainly keen to link his recent dig at the former Labour politician to this 2012 post. While both Farage and GB News have declined to speak to the press, the ex-UKIP leader has taken to Twitter instead. Quote tweeting Corbyn’s legal announcement, he simply wrote: ‘This cartoon looks like a global conspiracy to me.’

This cartoon looks like a global conspiracy to me @jeremycorbyn. https://t.co/iX7sFcQATC pic.twitter.com/hOj5PFKQ0X

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) March 4, 2024

And it’s not the first time that Jezza has threatened his critics with legal action. Tory MP Ben Bradley publicly apologised in 2018 for posting a ‘wholly untrue false’ statement about the ex-Labour leader being in cahoots with a communist spy.

With Farage not looking likely to back down, the stage is set for a court case that would blow Andrew Bridgen versus Matt Hancock out of the water…