A vocal backer of anti-Israel boycotts

IRAM AWAN is an activist who has previously appeared to support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign, which encourages consumers not to buy Israeli goods.

The 39-year-old worked for the London director of the Open Society Foundations until she joined Mr Corbyn’s office.

She has previously said that she has ‘never been aligned’ to any political party and was an activist with Left Unity, the group founded in 2013 as an alternative to Labour.

Miss Awan appears to have deleted her social media profiles but there are traces of her activism online.

Posting under the username ‘Girl-Paradox’, she tweeted a series of pro- Palestinian remarks in 2014.

She appeared to support a protest at a Barclays branch in Machynlleth, Wales, over the banking giant’s holdings in Elbit, Israel’s largest military technology company.

Protesters shut down the branch on August 8, 2014, and held signs reading: ‘Barclays is closed due to investment in Israeli arms companies.’

Miss Awan tweeted that day: ‘What an amazing action in Machynlleth! Barclays is a major shareholder in Elbit. ’

Last year she bought a onebedroom flat in west London with Ian Chamberlain, 34, an activist involved in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Stop the War Coalition.