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Former Labour peer Alan Sugar says Jeremy Corbyn is "absolutely dangerous", but the party is "powerless to get rid of him".

The Apprentice host said he's concerned about the Labour leader's response to the party's anti-Semitism saga.

Speaking to ITV News, Lord Sugar said: "My main concern is that this man kind of will not make a positive statement about it, which leads me to believe he is condoning it quite frankly. It’s one of those things where you see something that’s bad and when you remain silent and you don’t comment when you should, it means you actually don’t disagree with it too much.

“This country needs to get rid of him. There is no question of it. I don’t have the solution how to get rid of him. He is absolutely dangerous, totally totally dangerous and the [Labour] Party is powerless to try and get rid of him.

“He doesn’t mean it. He’s just giving lip service. Obviously his back room cronies have said ‘oh look Jeremy, you’d better say something about this anti-Semitism you can’t just sit there silent’ so he says ‘oh yeh yeh, no we’re not anti-Semitic’”.

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Corbyn today defended his Passover meal with a controversial Jewish group as a “good thing” - despite the meeting being slammed by other Jewish groups.

The Labour leader marked Seder by dining with Jewdas, which has accused other groups of “cynical manipulation” for seizing on anti-Semitic allegations by Mr Corbyn’s supporters.

Speaking on a visit to Swindon, Wilts., Mr Corbyn insisted: “It was a Seder event, which is a celebration of Passover, which I celebrate with young Jewish people from my own community and my own constituency.

“It was very interesting talking to a lot of young people about their experiences of modern Britain and I learnt a lot. Isn’t that a good thing?”

His defence came after a key ally accused Labour supporters of “unconscious bias” over anti-Semitism.

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Momentum founder Jon Lansman, who is Jewish and sits on the party’s ruling national executive committee, warned that activists who routinely campaign against racism and sexism often fail to realise the hurt caused by anti-Semitism.

“For some reason people in the Labour Party seem less willing or less aware of it themselves in relation to Jews and anti-Semitism,” he said.

“It’s clear that there is real concern in the Jewish community about anti-Semitism and we have to take that seriously, even if sometimes people opportunistically seize on anti-Semitism as an issue to undermine Jeremy.”