In the short video, which was tweeted by ITV’s Political Correspondent Paul Brand, the Labour leader appears to surreptitiously negotiate his way out of the sightline of ITV’s cameras behind a white, vertical panel that resembles a pillar – from which he does not emerge. Mr Corbyn was allegedly there as part of a “semi-regular” visit in which he discussed the weekend’s Durham Minsers’ Gala. Mr Brand tweeted the footage alongside the caption: “Jeremy Corbyn appears to slip behind a pillar in the foyer of Labour HQ to avoid the cameras awaiting his departure.

“He was there to speak to staff, apparently all part of a ‘semi-regular’ visit, as he faces criticism of the way the party’s handled anti-Semitism.”

However, it later transpired that the “pillar” was actually a door behind which Mr Corbyn stepped into a lift.

But Mr Brand added: “Either way, moments later he left out of a discreet exit round the back of a department store rather than the main front / back exits where he’d spotted our cameras.”

Senior Labour peers have offered to investigate allegations of anti-Semitism in the party, as they warned Jeremy Corbyn that without full openness it is “a cancer that will continue to grow”.

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Baroness Smith of Basildon, the shadow leader of the Lords, was among signatories to a letter to Mr Corbyn in which the Labour Peers Group offered to establish a small panel to review the substance of allegations made in last week’s Panorama programme.

The group’s chairman Lord Harris of Haringey, shadow deputy leader of the Lords Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town, and shadow chief whip Lord McAvoy also signed the letter.

They suggested they draw upon the trade union, legal and other experiences of the group to “provide advice and support on how a properly independent complaints process could be set up and run”.

And the peers offered to use the group’s corporate governance experience to “propose how the party’s governance arrangements can be improved”.

They wrote: “The purpose of these proposals is to ensure that the Labour Party can regain the trust of its members, supporters and the wider public.

“As the leader of our Party you have a responsibility to ensure that we do this.

“In particular, you need to demonstrate decisive leadership that Labour is determined and committed to do everything possible to remove anti-Semitism, and those that defend it, from our Party.

“Without full openness, this is a cancer that will continue to grow and, in hurting us, it will most hurt those that need a Labour Government. We are prepared to do all we can to assist.”

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The Panorama programme claimed that senior figures, including Jeremy Corbyn’s communications chief Seumas Milne and general secretary Jennie Formby, had interfered in anti-Semitism investigations.

Labour has denied the claims and written a complaint to the BBC.

Meanwhile, the Guardian reported that more than 200 former and current Labour staffers have written to Mr Corbyn asking for more support for whistleblowers.

And it said Labour staffers in the GMB union have submitted a motion for discussion at their branch meeting which calls for an apology for the party’s response.

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