Dutch investigators led by Fred Westerbeke said last week MH17 was downed by a Russian missile

A Tory MP has accused a left-wing group led by Jeremy Corbyn and one of his closest aides of peddling Kremlin propaganda over the shooting down of a civilian airliner over Ukraine.

On July 21, 2014, the Stop the War Coalition published an online article comparing the destruction of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 to the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to the First World War.

Emails known as “Kremlin leaks” show that Vladislav Surkov, an aide to the Russian president known as “Putin’s Rasputin”, instructed Russia’s agents of influence to make a “comparison of the collapse of the Malaysian Boeing with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand” to muddy the waters over whether Russia was responsible.

At the time, Stop the War was chaired