Jeremy Corbyn's claim that Labour will not lose seats in key council elections this week was "misinterpreted", his official spokesman has claimed.

The party leader made the comments yesterday during a poster launch but today his aide said Mr Corbyn had in fact meant that the party would not make seat predictions.

Speaking to a group of journalists about his optimistic comments Mr Corbyn's spokesman said: "I think that may have been slightly misinterpreted, what he said was that he would make no predictions about the number of seats to be won or lost in the local elections.