Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at 2016 anti-Trident demo

Today, the Daily Mail accuses Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Diane Abbott — the troika who could run the next government — of being unashamed apologists for terror, who have devoted their lives to befriending the enemies of Britain while undermining the very institutions that keep us safe in our beds.

Let us be clear. We have no doubt that Mr Corbyn’s expressions of horror over the atrocities in Manchester and at London Bridge, and his sympathy for the victims and their families, were sincere.

But the ineluctable truth is that the Labour leader and his closest associates have spent their careers cosying up to those who hate our country, while pouring scorn on the police and security services and opposing anti-terror legislation over and over and over again.

Yes, Mr Corbyn has impressed some with his quiet composure under hostile questioning. But he personally has spent a political lifetime courting mass murderers in the Middle East, Ireland and elsewhere in the world, affronting his party and its decent traditional supporters, while voting on 56 occasions against measures aimed at containing the terrorist threat.

Meanwhile, his closest ally, the Marxist shadow chancellor John McDonnell, has called for MI5 and armed police to be abolished, while saying that the IRA murderers of men, women, children, British servicemen and police officers should be ‘honoured’.

John McDonnell, Gerry Adams, and Jeremy Corbyn at a meeting in June 2008

As for Diane Abbott, the clueless and incoherent woman in charge of the security brief, she has voted against anti-terror measures 30 times, while declaring in the past that any defeat of the British state by IRA terrorists was a ‘victory’.

If you doubt what the Mail is saying, scroll down or click here where we catalogue quote after quote by this deadly troika, in which they damn themselves out of their own mouths.

These offer a devastating indictment of the depths to which Labour has sunk, and the naivety of a worrying number of Britons who see these three hard extremists as cuddly idealists prepared to hose money on the British people.

As their own words reveal, it is nothing less than preposterous that Mr Corbyn now poses as the champion of the police, calling on Mrs May to resign and claiming that he will keep us safe by negotiating with bloodthirsty Islamist maniacs intent on destroying our way of life.

Indeed, his record of flirting with terrorist groups — whose one common factor is hostility to Western liberal democracies — should be enough to prove his utter unfitness for high office.

But there are at least SIX other compelling reasons why Britain would be nothing short of insane to vote Labour at this juncture in our history.

ONE: The economy

Among the Tories’ greatest mistakes in this campaign has been their failure to shout from the rooftops how well the economy is doing under their stewardship.

A police officer helps Mr Caesar James Crespi, a barrister injured in the IRA bombing of the Old Bailey law courts in London

Who would have guessed, when they took charge of a country on its knees in 2010, that today we’d be enjoying some of the strongest growth rates in the developed world, with record employment and consumer confidence, the stock market hovering around an all-time peak and a jobless rate that’s half the European average?

As the Mail’s City Editor Alex Brummer spells out here, everything we’ve worked so hard for could evaporate overnight under the economically illiterate policies dreamed up by Mr Corbyn and his fellow Marxist Mr McDonnell, who was fired by former London Mayor ‘Red’ Ken Livingstone as too Left-wing even for him.

Who in his right mind would lend money to a government committed to the mass nationalisation and unfettered union power that came so close to destroying us in the Seventies?

And who in his senses could believe Labour’s pie-in-the-sky promises of wage rises all round, a lower state pension age, capped rail fares, free tuition, free childcare — free almost anything you care to mention, all to be paid for with money that simply doesn’t exist?

TWO: taxation

Which brings us to the party’s plans to raise revenue through borrowing and a bewildering array of taxes on income, wealth, businesses and inheritance, and a levy on land (including gardens) devised specifically to depress house prices.

Firstly, the markets would lend money only at a usurious interest rate if at all to a government led by an extreme Left-winger such as Jeremy Corbyn.

Secondly, it is an incontrovertible law of economics that the more you try to tax people after a certain point, the less you raise.

Jeremy Corbyn refuses to sing the national anthem during the 75th anniversary Battle of Britain memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral in London on September 15, 2015

Members of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas march with rockets in March 2016

As for those who are worried about Tory plans, whether for funding social care or means-testing the winter fuel allowance, they can be sure they would be hammered ten times harder by Labour.

Meanwhile, the queue of wealth-producing companies fleeing Britain to set up shop overseas would stretch from Dover to Aberdeen. No, Labour’s manifesto is a blueprint for national destruction, with terrifying implications for living standards, public services and jobs — in the state sector no less than the private.

And as ever in an economic downturn, the poor whom Labour hopes to help would suffer along with everyone else.

THREE: immigration

This is an issue on which Mr Corbyn and his Hard-Left metropolitan clique have shown themselves viscerally at odds with the public — not least with traditional Labour voters.

True, the Tories have failed dismally in the past to hit their target of cutting net immigration to the ‘tens of thousands’. But in Theresa May, they have a leader determined to achieve it — a challenge that will be made easier after Brexit.

By contrast, Mr Corbyn has made clear he believes that where migrants are concerned, the more we let in, the merrier — no matter what the consequences for jobs, wages, hospital beds, school places, infrastructure, social cohesion and our national identity.

FOUR: defence

What more need be said than that the Labour leader is a lifelong supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, who has frequently made clear that he is no friend of Britain’s armed forces, while offering nothing but comfort to their enemies?

MP Jeremy Corbyn with Gerry Adams at the Bobby Sands and James Connolly commemoration at Conway Hall, London

He may have said he will obey his party’s command to renew Trident, at a cost of billions of pounds a year. Yet by telling the world that under no circumstances would he press the nuclear button, he has left no doubt that, under him, the deterrent would be meaningless.

Thus, the man who loves terrorists around the world would leave his own country defenceless.

FIVE: Brexit

Research has shown that four-fifths of Britons, even those who supported Remain, now believe that we should press ahead with withdrawal. That means giving Mrs May and her negotiators the strongest possible mandate to strike the best deal for Britain with an EU that will ruthlessly exploit any sign of weakness or division.

To her enormous credit, the Prime Minister has been unflinching in her resolve to carry out the will of the people, as expressed in last year’s referendum.

Not for her the insidious attempts by ‘we-know-best’ Remoaners to undermine the result — still less, the arrogant and insulting campaign by the pathetic Lib Dems to overturn it.

As for Mr Corbyn, even before talks begin in earnest, he has made clear he will pay any price our partners demand for us to retain open borders and membership of the single market and customs union (which would leave us subject to European courts and prevent us striking trade deals in the wider world).

In other words, he would sign a blank cheque to retain our EU membership in all but name.

Diane Abbott enjoys a beer at the New Statesman party in Liverpool in September 2016

SIX: the Coalition

Not a day goes by when Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t hint that she is prepared to form some sort of alliance with Mr Corbyn. If you thought an Alex Salmond/Ed Miliband axis was terrifying, a Corbyn/Sturgeon partnership should give us all nightmares.

Yet if the pollsters agree on one thing, it is that Labour has no hope of forming a government without her support.

This means that the SNP, dedicated to remaining in the EU and breaking up the kingdom, would inevitably call the shots, with the Scottish Nationalist tail wagging the UK dog. Vote Labour, get Sturgeon.

Yes, we know the polls are not propitious for the Conservatives. But this paper has always believed in the common sense, decency and patriotism of British voters, who have shown so often in the past that they put the interests of the country and aspirations for our children and grandchildren first.

If these are their guiding principles, we believe this crucial vote can result only in a comfortable victory for Theresa May and the Conservatives.

In the name of everything the great majority of us hold dear, and with so much at stake, we urge our readers to save Britain from the terrorists’ friends — and give Mrs May the mandate she needs to negotiate successfully with Europe.

Officers help the injured after the IRA pub bombings in Guildford, Surrey in October 1974

In their own damning words, so full of contempt for British values, proof Corbyn and Co are unfit to rule

Over the last weeks, Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott and John McDonnell have presented themselves as reasonable and moderate statesmen. But this investigation by GUY ADAMS into what they actually believe — and, more importantly, what they’ve said publicly — reveals a very different and frightening insight into this trio who want to lead us...

Anti police

In 1977, while Corbyn was running Hornsey Labour Party, a poster displayed at its HQ depicted policemen as pigs wearing helmets. The local newspaper dubbed it a ‘filthy insult’. Corbyn founded a far-Left group called Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory in 1979. It said: ‘The capitalist police are an enemy of the working class. Support all demands to weaken them.’

In 1981 he blamed violent riots in his Wood Green council ward on ‘oppressive’ policing. The Hornsey Journal responded by accusing ‘rabble-rousing’ Corbyn of ‘supporting the overthrow of our society by mob violence and the emasculation of law and order’.

London Labour Briefing (a far-Left newspaper Corbyn helped publish) accused The Met of having ‘acted like an army of occupation’ during the Brixton riots in the same year, which injured 280 officers. An editorial said: ‘The street fighting was excellent but could have been (and hopefully in future will be) better organised.’

Ken Livingstone, left, Gerry Adams (centre left), Jeremy Corbyn walk on Westminster bridge

Another article accused police of ‘strutting round Brixton harassing young blacks, lurking around public toilets to arrest gay men, protecting fascist demonstrators’.

On Remembrance Sunday in 1986, three years after becoming an MP, Corbyn laid a wreath at the Cenotaph commemorating rioters who’d died in clashes with the police. Tory MP Teddy Taylor said: ‘Mr Corbyn should be ashamed.’

Typically, Corbyn voted against laws that might assist the police in stopping terrorism at least 17 times in his career, opposing moves to ban Al Qaeda, restrict the movement of terror suspects with so-called T-Pim orders (Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures) and to allow police and security services emergency access to email and phone records.

Addressing a Stop The War rally in 2011, he boasted: ‘I’ve been involved in opposing anti-terror legislation ever since I first went into Parliament in 1983.’

As recently as 2015, Corbyn opposed the police being able to shoot terror suspects (something that saved many lives in London on Saturday), declaring: ‘I am not happy with the shoot-to-kill policy in general. I think that is quite dangerous and I think it can often be counterproductive.’

Mocked our soldiers

One of the many loony Left causes Corbyn has supported was a campaign in the early Eighties against ‘the infiltration of military literature into reading material’ in Haringey’s libraries.’

In 1982, Corbyn opposed a council motion offering ‘loyal support’ to British troops heading to the Falklands.

He tabled an alternative which declared: ‘We resent this waste of unemployed men who are being sent to the Falklands to die for Thatcher.’ He added that sending a UK task force to liberate the British territory after the invasion by Argentina was ‘a Tory plot to keep their money-making friends in business’.

1966: Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams controversial meeting with Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Benn went ahead

The same year, when Corbyn’s IRA chums were murdering British soldiers, London Labour Briefing magazine carried a report from Ulster which accused our soldiers of ‘cruising the streets with all the arrogance of male punters in Soho’ and ‘leering at women and spitting their contempt at the children’.

For good measure, it claimed that ‘black squaddies’ were ‘made to bring up the rear of a street patrol as these are the positions where a soldier is more likely to be shot’. And it went on to say that troops also like to ‘shoot dogs’.

More recently, Corbyn blamed our Armed Forces for causing natural disasters. In 2005, in his column for Morning Star (the hard-left newspaper with historic links to the Communist Party) he endorsed a bizarre conspiracy theory that claimed the floods in Devon in 1952 were was caused by ‘the RAF experimenting with creating rain as a weapon of war by seeding small clouds with a cocktail of chemicals that caused the storm and flash flood’.

In 2013, Corbyn took part in a protest at RAF Waddington calling for the Armed Forces to be banned from the ‘obscenity’ of using drones — devices crucial in the West’s war against ISIS and used to kill the terror group’s British executioner Jihadi John.

Jihadi John is someone Corbyn would have allowed to walk our streets, judging by an interview the MP did in 2015 with Arab TV station LuaLua, in which he said moves to ban jihadis from returning to Britain were ‘strange’ and ‘legally very questionable’.

Cheerleader for the IRA

Throughout the Eighties and Nineties, Corbyn and McDonnell were the IRA’s most vigorous allies in Westminster, attending the annual gathering of the Wolfe Tone Society, an organisation which honours dead IRA members and imprisoned volunteers. The event’s 1986 programme declared: ‘Force of arms is the only method capable of bringing about a free and united socialist Ireland.’

At an Irish Republican event in 1987, Corbyn took part in a minute’s silence to commemorate eight IRA men shot dead by the SAS as they travelled to attack a police station in County Armagh. ‘I’m happy to commemorate all those who died fighting for an independent Ireland,’ he said.

In 1996, the year of the Docklands and Manchester bombings, Corbyn invited Gerry Adams’s deputy, to the Commons with a group that included several suspected IRA terrorists. The Labour chief whip accused Corbyn of putting the Commons ‘at considerable and unacceptable risk’.

Corbyn attends The People's March for Climate, Justice and Jobs in 2015

Corbyn put up £20,000 of his own money to stand bail for Roisin McAliskey, an IRA terror suspect facing extradition to Germany, where authorities wished to prosecute her for killing a soldier’s wife during a mortar attack on a UK army base. (Eventually, she was not extradited.)

Last month, in a Sunday morning television interview, Corbyn was asked five times to ‘unequivocally condemn’ the IRA. Five times he declined.

After the Brighton Bomb, in which the IRA murdered six people, London Labour Briefing (a far-Left monthly journal that Corbyn helped run), published a reader’s letter stating: ‘What do you call four dead Tories? A start!’

Next to a picture of Lord Tebbit, who was seriously injured (and whose wife would be wheelchair-bound for life) it added: ‘Try riding your bike now, Norman!’

Weeks after the Brighton attack, Corbyn invited two IRA terrorists to the Commons for a PR stunt where they ‘protested about strip-searches in Northern Ireland’s prisons’.

A few weeks after the IRA’s 1996 bombing of Manchester which caused massive devastation, Corbyn agreed to host the launch of Adams’s autobiography in the Commons. The book included an account (allegedly fictional) of killing a British soldier.

Terrorist chums

In 1984, Corbyn lobbied a variety of ‘Latin American cultural organisations’ on behalf of what he called ‘comrades in the M19 movement’ in Colombia. These ‘comrades’, according to the Sunday Times, had car-bombed, shot, tortured and killed their way across the country in recent years.

The men accused of the Lockerbie bombing, in which 270 died, were also helped by Corbyn. In 1992, he signed a letter supporting their bid to avoid trial in either the UK or America. ‘One has to ask whether they would receive a fair trial in a British or US court,’ he said. After 9/11, Corbyn wrote in the Socialist Campaign Group News, a paper for left-wing MPs, blaming the tragedy on the West and its ‘blanket support for Israel’s occupation of Palestine’.

In a 2009 speech, Corbyn said: ‘It will be my pleasure and honour to host an event in Parliament where our friends from Hezbollah will be speaking …I’ve also invited our friends from Hamas to come and speak.’ Asked why he’d called the terror groups ‘friends’, he said: ‘It was inclusive language which with hindsight I would rather not have used. I regret using those words.’

Finsbury Park Mosque, where Islamist rabble-rouser Abu Hamza once preached, counts local MP Corbyn as a longstanding supporter. In 2014, he joined a group there to welcome Abdallah Djaballah — a controversial imam who has called on fellow countrymen to ‘wage holy Muslim war’ against Britain and the U.S.

Labour MP Diane Abbott in 2013

Corbyn has opposed at least 13 Prevention of Terrorism bills. In Socialist Campaign Group News, he has said he regularly hosts meetings by ‘international solidarity groups’ at which ‘many express sympathy for armed insurrection’. Corbyn asked: ‘Are they, or those attending, to be criminalised?’

In 2009, Corbyn called for Hamas to be taken off the terror list, telling Al Jazeera: ‘Contacts with Hamas by politicians are increasing day after day. All want to find a peaceful solution to the problem.’

Following the terror attacks in Paris in 2015, Corbyn said he opposed police being allowed to shoot terror suspects, saying he’s ‘not happy with the shoot-to-kill policy in general’.

Unpatriotic, anti-royal

In 1976, the ‘self-confessed republican’ opposed plans by Haringey Council to celebrate the forthcoming Silver Jubilee, according to the local newspaper, making ‘one or two less-than flattering remarks about the monarchy when the question came up’.

When the date itself came, he refused to let the Union Jack fly in the Labour Party’s offices.

McDonnell, the Marxist who wanted to axe MI5 DISARM POLICE Was among signatories to a 2015 open letter demanding that MPs ‘abolish the monarchy . . . Disband MI5 and special police squads, [and] disarm the police’. When this made headlines following his appointment as Shadow Chancellor, claimed his name had been added in error, despite the fact that the letter’s authors, an organisation called The Socialist Network, had published a photo of him posing with a copy of it. PRAISED IRA Told a 1986 Sinn Fein meeting in New Cross, South-East London, that ‘the ballot, the bullet and the bomb’ would end British rule in Northern Ireland. A local newspaper reported he then called Lewisham councillors who’d boycotted the event ‘gutless wimps’ and joked that ‘kneecapping might help change their minds’. Attendees reportedly ‘roared with laughter over the Brighton hotel bomb’, which had killed five people, including a Tory MP, and maimed 31 others just two years earlier. Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell on the second day of the Labour Party Autumn Conference on September 28, 2015 in Brighton Famously praised the IRA in a 2003 speech, saying: ‘It’s about time we started honouring those people involved in the armed struggle. It was the bombs and bullets and sacrifice made by the likes of [hunger striker] Bobby Sands that brought Britain to the negotiating table.’ Later issued grovelling apology for the remarks. AT A Sinn Fein fundraiser in 2004, was given a special award for ‘unfailing political and personal support he has given to the republican community’. The plaque was presented by an IRA terrorist who in 1973 bombed the Old Bailey, killing one and injuring almost 200, and who, in 1983, led a breakout of IRA inmates from the Maze prison, during which he shot a prison officer in the head. COMMUNIST For years, listed his hobby in Who’s Who as ‘fermenting [sic] the overthrow of Capitalism’. Was caught on video in 2016 telling a private audience ‘I’m a Marxist’, and callously describing the 2008 financial crash, which cost millions of people their homes and jobs, as something for which ‘I’ve been waiting . . . for a generation’. Asked last month by BBC presenter Andrew Marr ‘Are you a Marxist?’ he declared: ‘I believe there’s a lot to learn from reading [Das] Kapital, yes of course, and that’s been recommended not just by me but many others, mainstream economists as well.’ Called for ‘direct action’ and ‘insurrection to instil fear in the rich elite’ ahead of the 2015 General Election. Writing in the anarchist journal Strike! dubbed himself as ‘the last communist in Parliament’ and said: ‘Words are not enough. The elite who still dine at the Ritz, shop at Fortnum & Mason and populate the company boards in the City . . . will only be fearful when our talk moves on to action.’ ‘KILL MRS T’ Dubbed Tory MP Esther McVey ‘a stain on humanity’ around the same time, and asked: ‘Why aren’t we lynching the b*****d?’ Refused to retract the remarks on Robert Peston’s ITV show last year, saying he was expressing ‘honest anger’ over welfare cuts. Declared at a Trade Union conference in 2010 that the ‘single act’ he’d most like to do to ‘improve the world’ would be to ‘go back in time and assassinate Thatcher’. Later issued apology for the ‘appalling joke’. Speaking to the Labour Representation Committee conference in Liverpool in March 2012, called the Cameron coalition government ‘an elected dictatorship’. He said: ‘There’s three ways in which we change society. One is through the ballot box, the democratic process and into Parliament. The second is trade union action, industrial action. The third is basically insurrection . . . I think we have a democratic right to use whatever means to bring this government down.’ Advertisement

In the early Nineties he said: ‘A Labour government must abolish the House of Lords as a matter of very high priority’, and used a Morning Star column to call for the Royal Family to be evicted from Buckingham Palace to ‘smaller, more modest accommodation’.

He was accused of insulting the monarchy by wearing a red jacket when solemn eulogies were made in the Commons in tribute to the Queen Mother who had died.

On the day Prince William married Kate Middleton, he used Twitter to urge followers to ignore the event and watch Vladimir Putin’s propaganda TV station, Russia Today, instead. ‘Try Russia Today. Free of Royal Wedding and more objective on Libya than most,’ it read.

When standing for the Labour leadership, he called for the Queen to be stripped of her Royal Prerogative, the nominal powers she gives to the Cabinet to enable them to pass some laws without seeking the consent of Parliament.

His republicanism is partly rooted in his awkward attitude to patriotism — which was exposed in 2005 when he criticised the Labour Cabinet Minister David Blunkett for giving a speech endorsing British values.

‘[Blunkett’s] problem is that he thinks patriotism is a progressive and generous force,’ wrote Corbyn in Socialist Campaign Group News.

‘Somehow we are encouraged to delude ourselves into thinking Britain is therefore a force for good in the world… Most countries self-delude to a huge extent, but Britain, more than most.’

Gypsies’ hero

Labour’s election manifesto pledges to support travellers and their right to ‘a nomadic way of life’.

Corbyn has been down this road before. And it didn’t end well.

In 1975, when Haringey was suffering a cashflow crisis, Corbyn successfully campaigned for the council to give annual grants to the Gypsy Council because gypsies were a ‘forgotten group’ in the borough.

Eight years later, as council planning chairman, he let gypsy families illegally occupy a paddock in Tottenham. Within a year, they turned the site into what local newspapers called an ‘excreta-ridden’ outdoor toilet that resembled a Third World slum.

Abbott: Every defeat for Britain is a victory for us Bin laden backer Shortly before 9/11, voted against a Bill to proscribe Al-Qaeda as a terrorist group, alongside such outfits as Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the Armed Islamic Group, Harakat-ul-Mujahideen, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group and the Islamic Army of Aden. In a recent BBC interview, sought to justify the move because the Bill would have outlawed some groups that were ‘not terrorist organisations, but dissident organisations’. However, when pressed, she was unable to identify them. Plays race card Months before 9/11, Diane Abbott voted against a bill to proscribe al-Qaeda as a terrorist organisation During a 2012 TV debate on racism, tweeted: ‘White people love playing “divide and rule”. We should not play their game.’ Accused of anti-white racism, claimed she was referring to historic behaviour of white people during the days of the British Empire. Following the Brexit vote, suggested on Question Time that Leave voters were racists who wanted ‘to see less foreign-looking people on their streets’ and told a meeting at the Labour conference that they had ‘added another turn of the screw to rising racism’. Previously took a diametrically opposed view of the EU, arguing in 1993 that Europhiles were racist because their proposed Maastricht treaty ‘undermines civil rights of black Britons’ and was a product of ‘rising Nazism and racism across Europe’. The reason? She thought, utterly wrongly, that the treaty would reduce immigration. Speaking at a conference in the U.S. in 1988 claimed that Britain ‘invented racism’ and called Parliament ‘the heart of darkness, in the belly of the beast’. IRA support Supported the IRA when it was bombing the British mainland, claiming in a 1984 interview with the journal Labour & Ireland that Ireland ‘is our struggle — every defeat of the British state is a victory for all of us’. In the same interview stated: ‘Though I was born here in London, I couldn’t identify as British’ and criticised Ulster as ‘an enclave of white supremacist ideologies’. Asked about the remarks recently, claimed to have moved on since the Eighties: ‘I don’t have the same hairstyle, I don’t have the same views.’ 'Mao did good' Claimed on a 2015 edition of BBC show This Week that ‘on balance, Chairman Mao did more good than harm . . . he led his country from feudalism’. Then laughed when it was pointed out that at least 45 million people were worked, starved, or beaten to death because of China’s Communist dictator. Abolish MI5 Signed an Early Day Motion in 1989 calling for ‘the abolition of conspiratorial groups like MI5 and Special Branch which are not accountable to the British people’. Four years earlier, dubbed the Home Office ‘a fundamentally racist organisation’. If Labour wins, she could be its boss. Advertisement

Corbyn then intervened to block council officers from evicting the gypsies.

As a result, the mess worsened and there was an outbreak of dysentery that led to four teachers and 20 children from a nearby school having to be treated in hospital.

Even one of Corbyn’s Labour colleagues said he ‘should be ashamed’ for allowing the area ‘to degenerate into a filthy rat-infested mess’.

When the gypsies eventually left, Haringey Council faced a bill of £43,000 [more than £100,000 in today’s money] to clear up the site. Typically, Corbyn told reporters: ‘I am not prepared to apologise for my actions.’

Anti-Semitism

After Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour presenter Emma Barnett last week exposed Corbyn’s inability to cost Labour’s childcare policy, his supporters targeted her with anti-Semitic abuse. One Twitter user called her a ‘Zionist shill [stooge]’.

Perhaps this is not surprising, considering that Corbyn himself has called Hamas, the terror group whose charter called on followers to kill Jews, his ‘friends’.

Over the years, Corbyn has visited Palestine courtesy of Interpal, a charity banned in the U.S. for alleged terror links. He’s attended events run by Paul Eisen, a convicted Holocaust denier.

A photograph posted on Twitter appears to show Ms Abbott at Oxford Circus tube station, just around the corner from the BBC Radio 4 studios, yesterday morning

Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech during an open air rally in New Canal Street on June 6

hadow Chancellor John McDonnell signs a supporter's placard during a Labour Party rally in Park Hill park on June 6

In 1982, Corbyn’s London Labour Briefing magazine compared Israel to Holocaust-era Germany, saying: ‘The parallels between Kristallnacht [a night of anti-Jewish violence in Germany in 1938] and the Holocaust now being visited on the Palestinians is all too clear.’

More recently, he wrote an article in Socialist Campaign News calling Israeli premier Ariel Sharon a ‘hated butcher’.

The following year, he visited the Middle East, writing that ‘Gaza was like entering an open prison’ and accused the Israeli army of ‘wanton destruction’.

On his return, Corbyn addressed an anti-Israel rally in London attended by hundreds of members of banned extremist group Al-Muhajiroun. An account of the event in the Weekly Worker noted that demonstrators clad in fake suicide vests chanted ‘gas, gas Tel Aviv’.

In 2013, he wrote to the Foreign Office criticising ‘Israel’s criminal politicians’ and the following year he wrote in the Morning Star of attending a ceremony in Tunisia where ‘wreaths were laid’ on the graves of terrorists responsible for the 1972 massacre of Israelis at the Munich Olympics.