JEREMY Corbyn has said he can’t see the point of commemorating the First World War.

The Labour leader used a speech to the Morning Star, the newspaper founded by the Communist party of Great Britain, to denounce the government’s decision to spend “shed loads of money” on events last year to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict.

The comments emerged just a week before remembrance Sunday, where Corbyn is due to lay a wreath at the cenotaph in his role as leader of the opposition.

Last year’s commemorations were widely seen as a moving remembrance of Britain’s war dead which saw more than four million visitors view a sea of 888,246 poppies – one for each British military fatality -