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Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at "disgusting", "shallow" media reports about him and accused the BBC of being "obsessed" with trying to damage his leadership.

The left-winger vented his anger as he was followed for two months by a film crew after being propelled to Labour's top job.

He blasted the BBC's coverage of the local elections in England, where he said he was "very happy" because Labour "hung on". Labour lost 11 seats and the Tories lost 49.

"There is not one story on any election anywhere into the UK that the BBC will not spin into a problem for me," he said.

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"It's obsessive beyond belief. They are obsessed with trying to damage the leadership of the Labour party and unfortunately there are people in the Labour party who play into that."

Mr Corbyn's thoughts are shared by many of his supporters, who started a petition to sack BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg over alleged anti-Labour bias.

VICE News were given behind-the-scenes access to Mr Corbyn for the film Jeremy Corbyn : The Outsider, which features the most stressful moments of his premiership so far.

In another scene he vented his fury at "utterly disgusting subliminal nastiness" about him - in the left-leaning Guardian newspaper.

He said columnist Jonathan Freedland, who claimed Labour had an anti-Semitism problem under Corbyn, "seems kind of obsessed with me".

He added: "The one thing I’ve learnt over the past 6 months or so is how shallow, facile and ill-informed many of the supposedly well-informed major commentators are in our media.

"They shape a debate that is baseless and narrow."

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The wide-ranging film shows the Labour leader out and about on the campaign trail and preparing speeches in Parliament.

VICE was allowed access as Mr Corbyn wrote his first Commons speech after George Osborne's Budget fell apart.

Dismayed Labour MPs claimed Mr Corbyn "snatched defeat from the jaws of victory" by hardly mentioning a £4bn U-turn over PIP disability benefit cuts.

But ahead of the clash with David Cameron , Labour's leader told advisors: "It’s not up to me to throw in other than a couple of lines, 'the government’s in a mess'."

After the speech VICE's reporter claimed he was asked to leave for the day.

Press chief Seumas Milne also accused Labour figures of regularly leaking Corbyn's lines of attack at Prime Minister's Questions to the Tories.

He said: "It’s very annoying because it only happens about a third of the time but it obviously gives them a little bit of extra time. Whenever there's a leak it gives them that advantage."

But Mr Corbyn also insisted: "The whole atmosphere within the PLP despite what the media report has completely changed. Some (MPs) are harder fish to catch."

His wife Laura Alvarez also told how she was proud of him. She said: "He’s a good politician. He’s not very good in housework but he’s a good politician."

When Mr Corbyn responded to the claim he should 'put on a proper suit' by talking about Tory cuts, she said: "Jeremy stood very strong. It was amazing."

VICE News' full half-hour documentary, Jeremy Corbyn: The Outsider, is available online here.