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.