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Corbyn flatly denies he was a spy for communist Czechoslovakia

The Labour leader said the claims were nonsense.

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Jeremy Corbyn has threatened legal action against Ben Bradley (Aaron Chown/PA)

Jeremy Corbyn  has flatly denied that he was a spy for communist Czechoslovakia during the Cold War.

Mr Corbyn was challenged about the allegations by a journalist from the Daily Mail during a question and answer session at the EEF manufacturers’ conference in London, where he had delivered the keynote speech.

He replied: “I am sorry the Daily Mail has reduced itself to reproducing some nonsense that was written in The  Sun.”

Asked directly by BBC Breakfast presenter Steph McGovern, who was acting as compere for the event, if he was a “Czech spy”, he said: “No.”

His denial came after he threatened Tory MP Ben Bradley with legal action over a tweet claiming he “sold British secrets to Communist spies”.

Mansfield MP Ben Bradley (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

The Labour leader’s office acknowledged that he had had tea in the Commons with a Czech diplomat, but said any claim he was “an agent, asset or informer for any intelligence agency is entirely false and a ridiculous smear”.

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