Soviet spy links show Corbyn ‘unfit for PM’
JEREMY CORBYN’S meeting with a Communist spy is a “betrayal of his country” and shows he cannot be prime minister, a senior minister said.
Secret Czech security services files reveal that Mr Corbyn met a Sovietbacked spy who posed as a diplomat in the Cold War at least three times.
The records summarised Mr Corbyn’s political outlook in 1986. It said: “Negative towards USA, as well as the current politics of the Conservative government.” The documents also suggested he was “positive” towards the Soviet bloc, supported the “Soviet peace initiative” and was “very well informed” of operatives in contact with anti-communist agencies.
Gavin Williamson, the Defence Secretary, said: “Time and time again he has sided with those who want to destroy everything that is great about this country, whether it is sympathising with terrorists, backing rogue regimes, or cosying up to those who want to inflict pain and misery on the British people. That he met foreign spies is a betrayal of this country. He cannot be trusted.”
But a spokesman for Mr Corbyn said: “Gavin Williamson should focus on his job and not give credence to entirely false and ridiculous smears.”
The records were obtained by The Sun newspaper and suggested the Labour leader was approached in 1986 by activists from the ultra-left Liberation movement and met in the Commons on Nov 25, along with Lieutenant Jan Dymic, a Czech agent. The records are likely to have been seen by Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, who was a senior KGB figure at the time.
Mr Corbyn’s spokesman added: “Like other MPS, Jeremy has met diplomats from many countries… Jeremy neither had, nor offered, any privileged information to this or any other diplomat.” ♦ Mr Corbyn said yesterday he doubts England will win the World Cup in Russia this summer, instead backing Brazil or Germany to be champions.