PRESS regulator Ipso is being urged to launch a standards investigation into the Jewish Chronicle over “systemic” breaches of its editors’ code of practice.

In recent years, the publication has been rapped by the Independent Press Standards Organisation on several occasions over smear stories against Labour members. 

Last month the regulator upheld a complaint by Wirral councillor Jo Bird over “significant inaccuracies” the paper printed about her and journalist Marc Wadsworth was awarded substantial damages over “entirely untrue” claims about him.