Jeremy Corbyn's brother Piers has claimed that Bill Gates and George Soros are behind the coronavirus.

The 72-year-old told followers on Twitter that the illness is an attempt to cull the world's population with a poisoned antidote.

Sharing the bizarre conspiracy theory, he wrote: 'THE CV PANDEMIC WAS SIMULATED OCT 2019 BY MEGA-RICH CONTROL FREAKS BILL GATES, GEORGE SOROS +CRONIES. NOW IT'S FOR REAL.

'THE AIM IS A WORLD POPULATION CULL ("PEOPLE cause #CO2 problem") by THEIR mass VACCINATION PLAN CONTAINING POISON. *REFUSE*CV*VACCINE*.'

Piers (left) accused Bill Gates and George Soros of being behind coronavirus and his the brother Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (right)

He linked to a video which blames the billionaire financier and the Microsoft founder for Covid-19, which has killed 36 people in Britain, where there have been 1,543 cases.

The climate sceptic and weather forecaster hit headlines in September when he referred to the European Union as the Fourth Reich.

He openly criticised his brother for turning his back on EU-scepticism and ridiculed Labour's policy on Brexit.

This came just months after he branded Extinction Rebellion deranged and staged a counter protest to their climate change demonstrations in London.

Standing on Waterloo Bridge, he waved one banner that denounced global warming as a 'hoax' and another calling greenhouse gas carbon dioxide a 'gas of life'.