Corbyn accuses security services of undermining him

JEREMY CORBYN has alleged he was deliberately undermined by MI5 and MI6 after meetings with them during his time as Labour leader.

The former leader of the opposition refused to back the UK’S Trident nuclear submarine deterrent during his tenure and did not directly condemn Moscow after the Skripal poisoning in 2018.

In September of that year, he was reportedly “summoned” by Andrew Parker, then director-general of MI5, for a “facts of life” talk in light of controversy surrounding his policy positions.

Two months later, this newspaper learnt that he had also met Alex Younger, then head of MI6, in anticipation of a snap election.

In an interview yesterday with the Declassified UK website, Mr Corbyn, 73, accused the security services of leaking details of the exchanges.

“I instructed my office that this meeting had to be treated as completely confidential,” he said. “And it was. It was leaked by them and it was leaked in a way to undermine: that somehow or other I’d been summoned and given a dressing down.”