The whistleblowing Panorama documentary, which alleged that senior Labour Party figures had intervened in antisemitism cases, has been nominated for a Bafta.

‘Is Labour Anti-Semitic?’, aired in July, featured testimonies from former members of the Labour Party’s compliance team, which had been tasked with investigating antisemitism complaints.

The documentary has been nominated in the ‘current affairs’ category and will vie with three other documentaries for the award.

It alleged that senior figures, including Jeremy Corbyn’s communications chief Seumas Milne and then-general secretary Jennie Formby, had intervened in antisemitism cases and found that despite hundreds of complaints being received, the party had expelled only 15 people in the past three years.

The documentary was the subject of controversy after its airing, with Mr Corbyn accusing the broadcast of containing “many, many inaccuracies” and the founder of the pro-Corbyn campaign group Momentum suggesting the whistleblowers were “former staffers with an axe to grind.”

In November, the BBC rejected a formal complaint against the programme, and in January the veteran BBC journalist John Ware, who led the investigation, sued the Labour Party for libel relating to allegations made after the airing of the documentary.

The BBC programme will vie with two Channel 4 documentaries on children in poverty and the hunt for the British-ISIS fighter ‘Jihadi John'.

An ITV report on the Chinese incarceration of over 1 million Uighur Muslims in concentration camps in Xinjiang completes the four nominations.

Another BBC documentary, The Last Survivors, which hears from the last survivors of the Holocaust in Britain as they reflect on the war and how the trauma of the Shoah affected their lives, has been nominated for awards in two categories.

The documentary’s director, Thomas Hammock, has been nominated for best director of a factual programme, while The Last Survivors will be hoping to pick up the award for best standalone documentary.