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Father-of-five Choudary, 51, was released from Belmarsh prison in London on Friday and driven to a bail hostel in north London, where he has to follow 25 strict conditions to prevent him preaching extremism. We now publish details of an interview he gave shortly before he was jailed for five and a half years in 2016 for encouraging people to join IS. London-born Choudary, cofounder of the banned al Muhajiroun group, said in the interview: "On a purely objective perspective, without talking in terms of Islam, I think that for a long time there has been no voice for the oppressed in this country.

"The austerity measures, the clamping down on trade unions and dissident voices, the oppression against the National Health Service... the difficulty people have in trying to meet their everyday living expenses has finally found a voice in this country. "I think he [Corbyn] has tapped into that. If he were to shed some of his more socialist ideas, like not bowing for the Queen, I think he could have a landslide. I disagree with him vehemently ideologically but at least he is honest." He added: "In terms of [his support] for Hamas and the PLO [Palestinian Liberation Organisation] and the IRA, I don't think Jeremy Corbyn has sympathy for people that call for Sharia law. I believe he is someone that has always supported the underdog and that is part of his socialist ideology."

Jeremy Corbyn at a rally

PRAISE: Anjem Choudary spoke about Jeremy Corbyn