Dinner date Corbyn’s guest

Jeremy Corbyn has been pictured having dinner with a political activist who supports President Assad and denies the genocide at Srebrenica.

The Labour leader was joined at a popular North London pizza restaurant by Marcus Papadopoulos, who has also made controversial comments on Twitter about Russia, Israel and the West.

Mr Papadopoulos captioned the image of the two men smiling at a table: “I’m having a wonderful dinner and discussion with hopefully the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom...”

He added that the pair had “spent the evening” together.

Mr Papadopoulos, famously outspoken on the subject of intervention abroad, has previously tweeted: “There was no siege of #Sarajevo, there was no genocide at #Srebrenica and there was no massacre at #Aleppo. Discard what Western media says.”

Other recent messages include: “#Israel is not – and never has been – in the fight against alqaeda. After all, Israeli hospitals treat wounded al-qaeda fighters from Syria.”

And: “President Assad, the guardian of Christians in #Syria, celebrating Easter. I stand with him 100%...”

A Labour spokesman said: “Jeremy Corbyn had dinner with friends from Cypriots for Labour, during which they were joined briefly by Mr Papadopolous, who asked to be photographed with Jeremy.

“Photographs of Jeremy with members of the public do not mean he endorses their views, as is the case on this occasion too.”