Of respondents who said they 'strongly like' Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, 35 per cent agreed with four or more statements deemed anti-Semitic by an international definition

Loyal supporters of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn are more likely to agree with statements deemed to be anti-Semitic than supporters of other political leaders, a poll has revealed.

The poll by YouGov asked respondents their opinion of British political leaders and gave them a series of statements about Jews to agree or disagree with.

Of those who said they 'strongly like' the Labour leader, 35 per cent agreed with four or more statements deemed anti-Semitic. 58 per cent agreed with two or more of anti-Jewish views.

Respondents who supported other leaders, such as Jo Swinson, Boris Johnson, and Nigel Farage, showed a markedly lower rate of anti-Semitic sympathy at just 18 per cent, 21 per cent and 24 per cent respectively.

'The leader of the once fiercely anti-racist Labour party is now the candidate of choice for anti-Jewish racists,' Gideon Falter, the Chief Executive of Campaign Against Antisemitism, wrote in a foreword of a report the poll is included in.

As part of their annual anti-Semitism barometer, the campaign group found that a record amount of British Jews had considered leaving the UK since 2017, with 85 per cent of those listing antisemitism in politics as the reason.

Those considering emigrating were overwhelmingly concerned about Mr Corbyn's effect on British Jews, not Boris Johnson's.

'The leader of the once fiercely anti-racist Labour party is now the candidate of choice for anti-Jewish racists,' Gideon Falter, the Chief Executive of Campaign Against Antisemitism, writes in a foreword of a report the poll is included in

Labour leader Mr Corbyn (pictured in a climate change debate last night) made several notable appearnces on Tehran-based Press TV as a backbencher

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said earlier this week he believed Mr Corbyn is not fit to be prime minister

The Sunday Telegraph reported that in an earlier but similar survey, Campaign Against Semitism provided 13 statements, 12 of which were anti-Semitic, they said.

The results found that those identifying as 'very left-wing' were more likely to agree with the statement that 'Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews', rhetoric deemed anti-Semitic by a definition set out in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

News of the polling results comes after Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis used a newspaper article on Tuesday to stage an unprecedented intervention in the general election campaign as he said anti-Semitism in the Labour Party was a 'poison - sanctioned from the top'.

He also alleged that Labour's claims it is doing everything possible to tackle anti-Jewish racism in the party was a 'mendacious fiction'.

Labour has been repeatedly rocked by allegations of anti-Semitism during Mr Corbyn's tenure as leader.

The party is currently under investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission over its handling of those allegations.

Just yesterday, Corbyn faced questioning about his personal attitudes towards Jews after the circulation of a video in which he accuses the BBC of being 'biased towards' saying that 'Israel has a right to exist'.

Jeremy Corbyn declined to apologise to the British Jewish community following criticism from the chief rabbi over how the party deals with anti-Semitism claims

In an interview with Tehran-backed channel Press TV - since banned from operating in the UK - he attacked the British broadcaster's coverage of issues in the Middle East.

In the clip from 2011, circulated widely online, the then backbench Labour MP also claimed that the then director general Mark Thompson had 'an agenda'.

He said: 'I think there is a bias [in the BBC] towards saying that Israel is a democracy in the Middle East, that Israel has a right to exist, Israel has its security concerns.'

Tory Party chairman James Cleverly highlighted previous comments from shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry on anti-Semitism, saying: 'Thornberry ''No place in Labour for people who deny Israel's right to exist'' Well this is awkward.'

And television presenter Piers Morgan said: 'This is anti-Semitism.'