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Ken Livingstone has promised a free meal to anyone who can prove his controversial remarks about Hitler were wrong.

The ex-London mayor has been suspended from the Labour Party after claiming Hitler supported Zionism “before he went mad”.

But in an interview on Talk Radio today, he blamed “embittered old Blairites” for stirring up the controversy and said no journalist had managed to disprove his claim.

He said: “Not a single newspaper, or radio, or TV programme has produced any evidence in the last two weeks that what I said was wrong.

“I tell you what, I’ll offer a free meal out for anyone who can prove what I said was wrong.”

Mr Livingstone went on: “I was asked a question on the Beeb about Hitler’s policies.

“I dealt with it in 40 words and moved on and then all these embittered old Blairite MPS who hate me because I supported Jeremy Corbyn ranted about all this stuff, that I was a Nazi apologist and so on.”

After an outcry over his comments last month, Mr Livingstone told the Standard he stood by his words and would be “presenting the academic book about that to the Labour Party inquiry.”

