Jeremy Corbyn has been pictured having dinner with a political activist who supports President Assad and denies the genocide at Srebrenica, it has emerged.

The Labour leader was joined at a popular North London pizza restaurant by Marcus Papadopoulos, who has also made controversial comments on Twitter about Russia, Israel and the West.

A picture posted on Twitter by a member of staff at Pizza Pappagone near Finsbury Park, in Mr Corbyn's constituency, showed Mr Corbyn enjoying a meal but Mr Papadopoulos had been cropped out.

However another photo later emerged showing the two men together in a photo thought to have been taken on Monday evening.

Mr Papadopoulos captioned the image of the two men smiling at a table: "I'm having a wonderful dinner and discussion with hopefully the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom..."

He added that the pair had "spent the evening" together.

Mr Corbyn has previously found himself in hot water over comments he made before he was leader of the Labour party about the West's intervention in foreign conflicts.

However Mr Papadopoulos is famously outspoken on the subject of intervention abroad, particularly on the UK and America's record.

He has previously tweeted: "There was no siege of #Sarajevo, there was no genocide at #Srebrenica and there was no massacre at #Aleppo. Discard what Western media says".

Other recent messages include: "#Israel is not - and never has been - in the fight against al-Qaeda. After all, Israeli hospitals treat wounded al-Qaeda fighters from Syria."

And: "President Assad, the guardian of Christians in #Syria, celebrating Easter. I stand with him 100%..."

As well as: "We stand with Syria against US aggression. And No to Western-backed Islamist terrorism. #Syria."

The decision to spend time with Mr Papadopoulos is likely to prompt concern from Labour MPs, particularly the majority who consider the actions of President Assad against his own people in Syria to be war crimes.

The Srebrenica massacre, the anniversary of which is today, was the genocide of more than 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks, mainly men and boys, in and around the town Srebrenica.

It happened in 1995 during the Bosnian war.

A Labour spokesman said: "Jeremy Corbyn had dinner with friends from Cypriots for Labour, during which they were joined briefly by Mr Papadopolous, who asked to be photographed with Jeremy.

"Photographs of Jeremy with members of the public do not mean he endorses their views, as is the case on this occasion too."