The BBC cameraman run over by Jeremy Corbyn's car has today hit back at bizarre claims by Left-wingers that it was faked - or he got hit intentionally - to 'smear' the Labour leader.

Giles Wooltorton, who is on crutches after breaking two toes and suffering a badly bruised foot, denies inexplicable allegations by Labour supporters that the crash was 'set up'.

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg has also faced outlandish allegations that she was in on a conspiracy to undermine Mr Corbyn because Mr Wooltorton was her cameraman - including entirely bogus claims she pushed him.

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline at his home in Guildford Mr Wooltorton, 51, said: 'It's certainly not that way and I wouldn't have wished it to happen at all.

'I'm a behind-the-lens person, not in front. It's as simple as that.'

He added: 'It's very painful. It's the last thing I want. I've got huge management interest, police interest, Labour Party interest.'

Mr Wooltorton is unable to walk and is recuperating with his wife at home after the Labour leader's car ran over his foot yesterday.

Victim: Giles Wooltorton had to be taken away in an ambulance after the Labour leader's car ran over his foot - he told MailOnline there was no way he would do it deliberately

Mr Wooltorton was trying to take footage of the Labour leader's arrival when the accident happened. BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg (pictured left) stepped in to comfort her colleague only to be accused of being part of a bizarre conspiracy

Jeremy Corbyn, who has dubbed himself 'Monsieur Zen', seemed slightly ruffled as he realised something had gone wrong as he arrived for a Labour meeting to discuss the manifesto today

A minority of Mr Corbyn's supporters have suggested that it was an attempt to undermine his election campaign hours after Labour's manifesto was leaked a week early

He fell to the ground yelling in pain after the incident, which happened outside the Institution of Engineering and Technology in London.

Within minutes of being taken away by ambulance some of Mr Corbyn's supporters suggested that it was an attempt to undermine his election campaign and baseless claims the BBC was in it.

Trolls have been calling Laura Kuenssberg 'Laura Torygirl' and a 'Conservative stooge' and even accusing the experienced journalist of pushing him in the way or 'kicking his foot'.

A minority have taken to Twitter to claim that Mr Wooltorton was hounding the Labour leader or the even more bizarre theory 'put his foot in' so the wheel would run over it.

George Foulkes‏ said in a message to Ms Kuenssberg: 'If your cameramen stopped hounding @jeremycorbyn they would be less likely to get knocked over'.

Jane Abbott‏ tweeted: 'If I was cynical I'd say a BBC cameraman being hit by Corbyn car when next to Corbyn hating @bbclaurak was a complete set up. Stinks'.

@Snugglegoth wrote: 'BBC cameraman filming labour leader in car. you play with the traffic, you expect to get hurt. BBC desperation to smear Corbyn. VOTE LABOUR'.

Corbyn was sat in the back of the people carrier as it arrived at the Institution of Engineering and Technology in London when the incident happened just before 11.30am.

Mr Wooltorton was stood near the entrance to the underground carpark of the building in Savoy Place alongside other press filming as the dark coloured car turned in to enter.

Media footage of the shocking moment he was run over, shows the cameraman falling to the ground shouting in agony and exclaiming ‘my foot, he ran over my foot’.

But the car did not stop and Corbyn could be seen looking over his shoulder through the back window in concern as the vehicle continued into the building.

As the injured cameraman was helped by his colleagues on the side of the road, witnesses reported that Corbyn went straight inside to present the manifesto to senior Labour figures.

Scotland Yard will now face investigation, as the vehicle was being driven by officers from the Met Police’s royalty and specialist protection unit.

One witness lift engineer Rob McNamara, who saw the incident, said: ‘There was a lot of press and the poor cameraman got caught as the car turned in. It didn’ t stop even when the man went down.

‘It just continued into the building edging forward aggressively, another car was beeping behind it and the security just wanted to get them in.’

BBC cameraman Giles Wooltorton's foot was run over by the Labour leader's car as it entered the building on Savoy Place in central London today

Miss Kuenssberg was concerned to ensure Mr Wooltorton was in good hands as he was taken away from the scene today

The BBC and its reporters have suffered a torrent of abuse from Corbyn supporters

An ambulance was called to the scene and Mr Wooltorton was said to be ‘good spirits’ as he was tended to on the pavement before being taken to hospital by ambulance.

In a statement the broadcaster said: ‘An experienced BBC cameraman has been injured while filming at the Labour Party manifesto meeting.

‘He has been taken to hospital for assessment and treatment. At the moment the BBC are focusing on their duty of care, making sure that he is OK.’

Police interviewed witnesses at the scene and took statements while a senior Labour source told the BBC that the party was ‘looking into’ the incident.

It was part of a 14 hour horror show for the Labour leader began at around 9pm on Wednesday night when his left-wing manifesto was embarrassingly leaked a week early.

As the party went into meltdown this morning over the unprecedented campaign breach, Mr Corbyn compounded the chaos by pulling out of a poster launch - leaving young activists bewildered.

To cap off the woes, as Mr Corbyn arrived for a meeting with top Labour figures at around 11.40am his car ran over the foot of a waiting BBC cameraman, who had to be taken away in an ambulance.

The leader initially grinned for photographers - but then appeared to lose his self-style 'Zen' calm as he realised what had happened.

The disastrous sequence encapsulates the misery faced by Labour, with polls showing the party is on track to be put to the sword by the Tories on June 8.

The gloom among moderates has fuelled by the uncompromising manifesto draft - which sets out the most left-wing election platform for decades and amounts to a 'wish list' for the leader's union paymasters.

Workers on more than £80,000 a year would be hit by a £6billion tax raid, although a spending splurge on scrapping tuition fees, education, the NHS and pensions would cost many times that.

The blueprint also hints that Brexit could be blocked, makes clear there should be no limits on immigration - and calls for restrictions on inflows that are currently in place to be lifted.

The 43-page manifesto - the most radical since Michael Foot's in 1983, which was dubbed 'the longest suicide note in history' - was being prepared for a dramatic launch next week.

But a draft was leaked, leaving the party reeling and struggling to work out how to get its campaign back on track.

The very fact that the document - written by Mr Corbyn's top aides Seumas Milne and Andrew Fisher - slipped out underlines the civil war that is still raging within Labour.

A blame game is under way over who might have disclosed it, with speculation the leader's own allies might have done it to 'bounce' moderates into accepting hard-left policies. There are also claims that Mr Fisher, who once called for MI5 to be disbanded, had left a copy lying around on a desk in Labour HQ.

Mr Corbyn himself appeared completely wrongfooted by the news, pulling out of a poster launch at the last moment apparently to avoid difficult questions.

Labour's election coordinator Andrew Gwynne admitted the situation was 'not ideal'.

Having missed the launch, Mr Corbyn headed for nearby offices to hammer out details of the manifesto with senior Labour figures - but refused to take questions afterwards.

Jeremy Corbyn grinned as he arrived for a meeting to sign off the Labour manifesto today - but his car then ran over the foot of a waiting cameraman

The BBC stalwart laughed off his injury but it marked another low for the accident-prone Labour leader

The BBC cameraman was taken to hospital for treatment but the police have confirmed he was not seriously injured

Activists looked slightly bewildered after Jeremy Corbyn failed to turn up at the poster launch in central London this morning

Mr Lavery told reporters at the poster launch today was pleased about the leak because it meant people would talk about the manifesto

Labour frontbencher Ian Lavery was left covering for his leader after he pulled out of the event at the last moment today

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott and shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer are among the Labour figures attending a meeting in London today to sign off the manifesto

Unite chief Len McCluskey, who has been propping up Mr Corbyn, said it was 'really really exciting' manifesto before falling down some stairs later.

'THE LONGEST SUICIDE NOTE IN HISTORY' - THE 1983 MANIFESTO The 1983 39-page manifesto from Michael Foot, pictured, was dubbed the 'longest suicide note in history' due to its far left policies. Mr Corbyn's manifesto is four pages longer Michael Foot's 1983 General Election manifesto was a 39-page booklet that was derided for its hard Left socialist policies. Now Jeremy Corbyn is facing the same treatment for his campaign pledges, which run four pages longer than Mr Foot's. Called The New Hope for Britain, the 1983 manifesto called for unilateral nuclear disarmament, higher taxation on the rich, a withdrawal from the then European Economic Community, the abolition of the House of Lords, and the re-nationalisation of recently privatised industries including shipbulding, British Aerospace and British Telecom. But the policies put off voters and Margaret Thatcher led the Conservative Party to a resounding victory, boosted by her popularity over the Falklands War. Labour ended up securing just 28 per cent of the vote, while the Tories received 42 per cent. It meant the Conservatives gained almost 40 seats, while Labour lost 50, giving Mrs Thatcher a very comfortable 144-seat majority. The slogan itself was the brainchild of Labour MP Gerald Kaufman, displaying the resentment for Mr Foot's policies from within his own party. After the defeat in 1983, Labour began a gradual shift towards the political centre ground, first under Neil Kinnock and then Tony Blair, eventually rising to power in the 1997 General Election. Advertisement

The union presence at the 'Clause V' gathering has been beefed up with an extra eight representatives to help the leader impose his will.

But Labour moderates are not planning to fight his demands for a socialist programme that is red in tooth and claw and dripping with class envy.

Instead they are trusting voters to deliver a verdict on the proposals - and put an end to the hard-left takeover of the Opposition.

One source warned it was 'Ed Miliband's manifesto with hard left hundreds and thousands sprinkled on top'.

Another source told the Daily Mirror: 'Is that it? For 40 years the Hard Left wanted to control the Labour manifesto, and all it amounts to is a load of freebies for every special interest group.'

Mr Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell have claimed the final manifesto will be 'fully costed'.

But, with new spending pledges running into hundreds of billions of pounds, it will raise concerns that Labour would embark on a gigantic borrowing spree, as well as levying swingeing taxes on business and the middle classes.

The extent of the pledges suggests Mr Corbyn's team believes it has nothing to lose in next month's election and can make a series of populist promises with little prospect of ever having to deliver them.

The document reveals the depth of influence of the union barons who are bankrolling the party's election campaign.

A new Ministry of Labour will oversee the biggest boost to workers' rights in decades. Collective bargaining will be extended and laws designed to prevent damaging strikes will be rolled back.

Around £20billion a year will be raised by reversing the cuts to corporation tax introduced by the Tories since 2010.

Specific union demands have also been written in - including a ban on driver-only trains in the wake of the RMT and Aslef industrial action that has been blighting Southern and other rail franchises.

There will be a further taxes on firms 'with high numbers of staff on very high pay' and a previously-announced tax on private health firms. And new income taxes will be levied on workers earning more than £80,000 a year.

The £6billion raised by the tax hike will be ploughed directly into the NHS.

Other eye-catching measures include a promise to 'take energy back into public hands'.

While the existing power companies will be allowed to continue, a new publicly-owned competitor firm will be established in every region of the UK.

It suggests a Labour government would also take full control over the National Grid.

The draft manifesto pledges to bring the Royal Mail back into public ownership following the 'historic mistake' of the coalition government to sell it off.

Publicly-owned bus companies will be established, and railways renationalised as each private franchise expires with a pledge 'to repeal the Railways Act 1993 under which the Conservatives privatised the railways.'

The manifesto also promised: 'We will end racism and discrimination against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, and protect the right to lead a nomadic way of life.'

Prime Minister Theresa May, who was campaigning in London and Southampton today, branded Labour 'shambolic'

After the manifesto was formally approvated by the Clause V meeting tonight, Mr Corbyn tried to put a brave face in the situation.

He vowed the final manifesto would include 'costings of all the pledges and promises that we make'.

The draft was the result of 'the most informed, interesting, sensible discussion and debate' within the party, he said.

Theresa May said Labour's day had been 'pretty shambolic'. 'I think what we see from the issue around the Labour Party's manifesto is, first of all, it is pretty shambolic the way the manifesto has come out,' she saidon a visit to a mental health charity in London.

'I think that shows the sort of chaos that we would see from a Labour government.

'But, crucially, if you look at what they are suggesting, if you take their manifesto overall, actually, what they are suggesting is taking us back to the past.

'What I'm interested in is dealing with the challenges that we face today but making a better future for this country.'

Mrs May also went canvassing in Southampton today, where the Tories are hoping to pick up seats.

Jeremy Corbyn's Labour manifesto would 'take Britain back to the 1970s' by re-nationalising railways, the energy industry and the Royal Mail, a leaked draft has revealed

Labour's manifesto pledges have also sparked fears the party would go on a 'gigantic borrowing spree' to fund it

CORBYN IS JUST THE LATEST LEADER TO SUFFER POLITICAL CATASTROPHE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Jeremy Corbyn may have suffered the premature leak of Labour's manifesto and seen his car run over a photographer today - but he can take solace that he is not the first leader to endure such setbacks. There is a long tradition of politicians coming a cropper in the public eye, inflicting differing degrees of damage on their own electoral chances. NEIL KINNOCK Neil Kinnock notoriously slipped on the beach in Brighton in 1983 When he was elected Labour leader, many thought Neil Kinnock was destined for victory. But his image was forever tarnished when he tried to take a walk on Brighton beach in October 1983. The Welshman was striding along with his wife Glenys when he was hit by a small wave - and promptly crumpled in a heap on the sand. The episode came to represent his somewhat accident-prone leadership. GORDON BROWN Gordon Brown came a cropper after being confronted by Gillian Duffy in Rochdale in 2010 Gordon Brown, never the most natural of public performers, struggled as Labour's front man in the 2010 election. His worst moment came when he was confronted by Gillian Duffy in Rochdale, who voiced concerns about the effects of immigration. Having seemingly dealt with the encounter quite well, Mr Brown forgot to detach his lapel microphone on returning to the prime ministerial car and was overheard describing her as a 'bigoted woman'. The ensuing mea culpa was agonising, as his careless words were played back to him during an interview. William Hague was ridiculed after boasting that he drank 14 pints of beer a night in his youth WILLIAM HAGUE One of WIlliam Hague's main problems when he became Tory leader was his 'Young Fogey' reputation. So ingenious decided Mr Hague should talk about how he would regularly down 14 pints of beer a night in his youth. He told GQ magazine he would drink a 'horrifying' amount while working delivering soft drinks in South Yorkshire. 'Anyone who thinks I used to spend my holidays reading political tracts should have come with me for a week,' he said. As well as general ridicule, the remark drew a sharp rebuke from Alcohol Concern. A spokesman for the charity said: 'We say that people should stick to the government guidelines, but they should also remember that they are the maximum recommended levels and not the level people should be encouraged to drink at every day.' ED MILIBAND Ed Miliband's tenure in charge of Labour was blighted by awkward mishaps. One notorious episode was when he tried to consume a bacon sandwich under the glare of TV cameras at an event in London in 2013. Sadly, his aides had forgotten to tell him that no-one looks good eating. The resulting photographs went viral and helped cement his gawky persona in the public mind. It surely contributed to his eventual defeat at the hands of David Cameron two years later. The photograph of Ed Miliband struggling to eat a bacon sandwich in 2014 came to sum up his hapless spell in charge of Labour Advertisement

Labour says Brexit might NOT happen as poll finds most voters have NO IDEA where party stands on the issue

Jeremy Corbyn has again raised the prospect of blocking Brexit after the leaked manifesto ruled out leaving the EU with no deal.

The document says that no deal is the 'worst possible' situation for Britain and would damage the economy.

The position leaves Mr Corbyn open to the accusation he could be held to ransom by Brussels, as he has effectively told them his bottom line in negotiations.

Theresa May has been careful to stress that she is willing to walk away from the table if the EU tries to impose punitive arrangements.

Mr Corbyn, pictured with Labour supporters in Rotherham yesterday, ruled out leaving the EU without a deal, according to the leaked manifesto

The Prime Minister has argued that without the option of walking away, Britain's negotiating hand is severely weakened.

But the draft Labour manifesto says: 'Labour recognises that leaving the EU with 'no deal' is the worst possible deal for Britain and would do damage to our economy and trade.

'We will reject 'no deal' as a viable and negotiate transitional arrangements to avoid a cliff-edge for the UK economy.'

It also promises an MPs' vote on the final deal – raising the prospect Brexit could be abandoned if Remain-supporting Labour MPs refuse to approve it.

Mr Corbyn sparked confusion earlier this week when he refused seven times to confirm that Britain would definitely leave the EU if Labour wins the election.

A YouGov poll for the Times today indicates that two thirds of the public and more than half of Labour voters think the party has no clear policy on Brexit, are not sure or picked the wrong option from a list.

In another snub to the outcome of the Brexit referendum, Labour will rule out limits on immigration, while saying numbers should be 'managed'.

The Prime Minister this week recommitted the Conservatives to reducing net migration to the tens of thousands.

Mr Corbyn has previously indicated he wants unfettered migration to continue.

The Labour manifesto also said all EU migrants already here will be given automatic rights to stay. Pictured are the shadow cabinet at the campaign launch earlier this week

His manifesto says all EU migrants already here will be given automatic rights to stay – something Mrs May has refused to do as she wants to make sure the rights of British ex-pats are also secured.

The Labour document says: 'The Conservative government has scapegoated immigrants to divert from for their own failings and have made bogus promises on immigration.

'When politicians fan the flames of fear it has real consequences on both recently-arrived and long-settled communities.

'Today, the National Health Service, our social care providers and private companies across many sectors depend on the labour of migrant workers. We value those workers and we will never denigrate them.

'We also understand the importance of more skills training for British nationals, whatever their colour or creed.'