President Barack Obama has suggested that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party is "disintegrating" because it has lost touch with "fact and reality".

Mr Obama said that the Democrats are not at risk of "Corbynisation" and that even the party's more left-wing figures like Bernie Sanders are more moderate than Jeremy Corbyn.

In an interview with David Axelrod, who advised the former Labour leader Ed Miliband, Mr Obama was asked if he feared that the democrats could fall apart like Labour.

He replied: “I don’t worry about that, partly because I think the Democratic Party has stayed pretty grounded in fact and reality."

Mr Axelrod asked if Mr Obama was concerned about the "Corbynisation" of the Democratic party, after Labour "disintegrated in the face of their defeat".

Mr Obama said that even Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who finished runner-up to Hillary Clinton in the primaries, was “pretty centrist” compared to Mr Corbyn.