Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has condemned the IRA's bombing campaign after coming under severe pressure to do so.

Mr Corbyn has faced repeated questions about his association with the IRA and with Sinn Féin during the 1980s and 1990s.

On Monday, he condemned "all acts of violence from wherever they came" during the Troubles, but declined to specifically denounce the IRA as terrorists.

On Friday, when the BBC's Andrew Neil pointed out in an interview that the IRA killed 1,800 people, Mr Corbyn replied: “Yes. And people were killed by loyalist bombs as well.

“All deaths are appalling, all deaths are wrong. There isn't a military solution to a conflict between traditions and communities. There has to be a better way and a better process of doing it.”

However, he has now held that the IRA bombing campaign was “completely wrong because it was taking civilian lives”.

When asked about his reaction when Downing Street and then-prime minister Sir John Major were targeted in an IRA mortar attack in 1991, he told reporters he had been “obviously appalled”.

Mr Corbyn added: “I was in Parliament at the time, I heard the attack go off.”

The Labour leader further said: “There had to be a process that dealt with the basis of it in Northern Ireland.

“And fortunately, politicians in Northern Ireland - firstly on the national(ist) side, Gerry Adams and John Hume - privately got together and brought about the Hume-Adams accord.

“That moved on to agreements between the nationalists and the unionist side, which eventually led to the peace process which was a recognition of the shared history of Ireland from extremely different cultural perspectives.

“And that led to the Northern Ireland peace process, which I think was the great success of the 1997 (Labour) government.”