Jeremy Corbin caused political scandal at a press conference Wednesday when he unveiled leaked government documents on international trade negotiations.
Just eight days ago, Mr. Corbin waved a heavily edited version of the same documents during the ITV party leaders' debate, stating that they were evidence of government hiding.
Thick black lines covered most of the text, which discussed in detail official issues between the United States and Great Britain about the prices of medicines as part of a possible trade deal after Brexit.
The debate is about what the documents really mean. Uncensored versions first appeared online more than a month ago, but initially attracted very little attention.
The ultimate source of the leak remains a mystery, but here's what we know.
Further attempts
Two days later, someone who turned out to be the person or person behind the Reddit post started a campaign to try to bring someone - anyone - to attention.
An account was created on Twitter: @gregoratior. He began to respond to tweets using a duplicate message and including a link to the original Reddit post.
The first posts mentioned in these tweets were official reports of the Labor Party, the press service of the Labor Party and shadow chancellor John McDonnell:
Just eight days ago, Mr. Corbin waved a heavily edited version of the same documents during the ITV party leaders' debate, stating that they were evidence of government hiding.
Thick black lines covered most of the text, which discussed in detail official issues between the United States and Great Britain about the prices of medicines as part of a possible trade deal after Brexit.
The debate is about what the documents really mean. Uncensored versions first appeared online more than a month ago, but initially attracted very little attention.
The ultimate source of the leak remains a mystery, but here's what we know.
Further attempts
Two days later, someone who turned out to be the person or person behind the Reddit post started a campaign to try to bring someone - anyone - to attention.
An account was created on Twitter: @gregoratior. He began to respond to tweets using a duplicate message and including a link to the original Reddit post.
The first posts mentioned in these tweets were official reports of the Labor Party, the press service of the Labor Party and shadow chancellor John McDonnell:
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