Rachel Riley stepped out for a refreshing stroll with her daughter amid her on going legal battle in libel claim against one of Jeremy Corbyn’s aides.
The Countdown host, 34, looked in good spirits as she partook her daily exercise session under lockdown with her little girl Maven Aria.
Rachel cradled her little one in a leopard print baby carrier, while holding her phone with her other hand and watching something on her screen.
Out and about: Rachel Riley stepped out for a refreshing stroll with her daughter amid her on going legal battle in libel claim against one of Jeremy Corbyn’s aides
Rachel oozed spring chic during her outing in a pretty pink coat and floral dress, while accessorising with a pair of rounded sunglasses.
Maven, four months, was adorably wrapped up in a fluffy hooded jacket with sweet bear ears, and a frilly floral hat.
Rachel welcomed her first child on December 15 with husband Pasha Kovalev, two weeks after her due date.
Rachel’s outing comes amid her legal battle with Corbyn’s aide.
Stepping out: The Countdown host, 34, looked in good spirits as she partook her daily exercise session under lockdown with her little girl Maven Aria
A High Court judge ruled that the comments posted online by Laura Murray, head of complaints for the Labour party, against the TV star showed a ‘defamatory tendency’.
Mr Justice Nicklin also said the description of Riley was defamatory within common law.
The legal action followed a Twitter row between Rachel, and Murray, after former Labour leader Corbyn had an egg thrown at him outside a mosque in Finsbury Park, London on March 4 last year.
Murray said a post retweeted by Riley compared Corbyn to a Nazi and inferred he deserved to be attacked.
Sweet: Rachel cradled her little one in a leopard print baby carrier, while holding her phone with her other hand and watching something on her screen
In a tweet that has since been removed, Murray wrote: ‘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.’
In response, Riley launched legal action against Murray.
Legal papers lodged at the High Court alleged that the TV star’s reputation has been ‘seriously damaged’ and she has been caused ‘substantial anxiety, humiliation, upset and distress’ because of Murray’s tweet.
Pretty: Rachel oozed spring chic during her outing in a pretty pink coat and floral dress, while accessorising with a pair of rounded sunglasses
Losing the opening round of their legal battle means Murray now potentially faces having to prove that Riley would support violent action against Corbyn to defend the £50,000 libel case.
Riley launched her legal action a year ago as the anti-Semitism row raged within the Labour Party.
The dispute originally began hours after a protester threw an egg at Corbyn outside the mosque last year.
Riley, who is Jewish, took to Twitter, having used the social media platform to attack the then-Labour leader over anti-Semitism within his party
She re-tweeted a comment made by left wing commentator Owen Jones two months earlier when a neo-Nazi had an egg thrown at him.
The columnist for the Guardian newspaper wrote at the time: ‘I think sound life advice is, if you don’t want eggs thrown at you, don’t be a Nazi. Seems fair to me.
Cosy: Maven, four months, was adorably wrapped up in a fluffy hooded jacket with sweet bear ears, and a frilly floral hat
Riley re-tweeted the comment as a reference to Corbyn being hit by an egg and described it as ‘good advice’.
Murray, daughter of trade union leader Andrew Murray, used her own Twitter account to mount what Riley’s lawyer said was an ‘appalling distortion of the truth’.
In his preliminary ruling, Mr Justice Nicklin rejected legal submissions from Murray’s lawyers that her tweet was a stating an opinion and not defamatory.
He said the tweet posted by Murray represented a ‘statement of fact.’
Family: Rachel was joined by her mother-in-law Galina Kovaleva on the walk
The judge said in an assessment of the ‘natural and ordinary meaning of the tweet’ Murray’s claim that anti-Corbyn campaigner Riley was ‘as dangerous as she is stupid’ and that ‘Nobody should engage with her. Ever’ was indeed opinion – but it was also ‘defamatory at common law’.
In his written judgement, Mr Justice Nicklin broke down the Murray tweet sentence by sentence to show what he said was defamatory and what in his opinion was a statement of fact.
He said the allegation that Riley was ‘a dangerous and stupid person who people should not engage with’ was defamatory as was the claim by Murray that Riley had said Corbyn deserved to be ‘violently attacked.’
The judge rejected the submission by Murray’s QC Anthony Hudson that she was simply stating an opinion when she said Riley had called for Corbyn to be violently attacked.
He also ruled that the tweet by Riley did not have to be taken in context with any other material and pointed out the exchange took place over less than six hours.
In the submission he added: ‘Twitter is perhaps one of the most inhospitable terrains for any argument based on the context in which any particular Tweet appeared in a reader’s timeline.
Wrapped up: Galina kept dry in the drizzle as she sported a floral mac