The Daily Mail has decried the BBC as “shameful” for having “made light of the evidence” that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn met with a communist spy during the height of the Cold War.

Corbyn hit out at the press in a video published on his personal Twitter account yesterday, rubbishing claims that he met with Czech spy Jan Sarkocy in the 1980s as “entirely false”.

Naming the Mail, Telegraph, Express, and Sun – who broke the story last week – Corbyn said: It’s easy to laugh, but something more serious is happening.