BRITAIN’S political Establishment is in “full flow” attack mode because it fears “a radical, transformative Labour government,” MSP Neil Findlay said today.

Neil Findlay, who quit the Scottish Labour front bench in May, described claims that leader Jeremy Corbyn is being “held captive” by top aides as “laughable.”

Speaking on the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr Findlay said the claims were another way of the party being undermined.

“This is absolutely laughable,” said Mr Findlay.

“We are in the silly season in politics and I think this is the start of it. It’s just simply another way in which to attack and undermine the Labour Party.”

Mr Findlay said a government led by Mr Corbyn would be “the most transformative government we’ve had since 1945.”

Ayesha Hazarika, a former party adviser turned stand-up comedian and anti-Corbyn commentator, told the same programme: “We do not have any position on Brexit, it’s killing us.

“We’re riddled with anti-semitism, there is bullying and misogyny going on and instead, senior people in the Labour Party, like yourself, seek to attack other people in terms of actually dealing with the issues.”

Mr Findlay said: “I agree 100 per cent with Ayesha that issues like she has mentioned have to be resolved, of course they do and there’s procedures for doing that and that’s absolutely right.

“But she cannot deny, and I’m not attacking her, that there’s a running commentary being used at every opportunity to attack the Labour Party and the direction it’s going in because people do not like that direction.

“They do not like the fact that we are putting forward a radical suite of policies that could transform the country because what they want to do is rewind back to another era when they were in control of the Labour Party.”