Dan Carden, right, allegedly turned Hey Jude into an anti-semitic song and made homophobic remarks

There was renewed pressure on a Labour shadow cabinet minister last night after The Sunday Times obtained WhatsApp messages that appear to corroborate claims he sang “Hey Jews” to the tune of Hey Jude on a raucous coach trip last year.

Dan Carden, the shadow international development secretary, has denied turning the Beatles ballad into an anti-semitic song on a journey back to London from Cheltenham races.

However, the messages passed to this newspaper detail Carden as drunkenly singing “nasty” “anti semitic and homophobic” songs.

The messages allege Carden and two others on the bus were at one point singing “we hate the gays”.

They follow a claim by a BuzzFeed reporter who said he overheard the sung references to Jews while sitting behind Carden