Jeremy Corbyn has been lying to Times Radio and on Piers Morgan Uncensored about his infamous line calling Hamas “friends“. Attempting to rewrite history, he claimed on Times Radio last night that he only referenced Hamas as friends at the event 10 years ago as “they’d gone out of the room and I said in a collegiate way, where has our friend gone? That was all I said.” He again said the same on Piers Morgan Uncensored. Guido has the original video where he says “I’ve also invited friends from Hamas to come and speak as well…”

More over at the same event he claimed specifically that the government labelling Hamas as terrorists was a big historical mistake. It turns out that it was Corbyn making the big historical mistake…

Thanks as ever to @TimesCorbyn for the archive footage.

Corbyn continues to be the gift that keeps on giving, this time repeatedly refusing to call Hamas a terror group on Piers Morgan’s TalkTV programme last night appearing with Len McCluskey (he did accept Hamas were terrorists). CCHQ and James Cleverly have already jumped on it. Morgan asked Corbyn 25 times throughout the show whether Hamas are a terror group and 11 times whether they should stay in power in Gaza. An exercise in patience…

Guido relaunched #Tories4Corbyn in September following a dramatic YouGov poll that showed if Jeremy Corbyn joins the London Mayoral Election, he’s poised to grab a whopping 15% of the vote, seizing third place and splitting the Labour vote. This would thwart Sadiq Khan’s bid for a third term and pave the way for Susan Hall and the Conservatives to claim victory. Now Jezza has confirmed he’s thinking about running…

In an interview with PoliticsJOE‘s Ava Santina, she asked him “Speaking of former mayors of London, are you going to be gracing London with a nomination…thinking about it?”. Corbyn promptly replied, “Well a lot of people have approached me so yes of course.” Guido hit the streets of London earlier this Autumn to see if voters want Jeremy to enter the race as much as the Tories do. They did.

Do your duty, Jeremy. Guido will back you again…

It looks like Corbyn’s list of friends keeps getting shorter as Jezza is disinvited from a left-wing conference in Berlin over his position on Israel/Gaza. The German Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, a socialist think tank connected with the hard-left Die Linke party, is organising an event this week on European politics populated mainly by Die Linke politicians. Corbyn’s invitation to speak has been withdrawn after the hosts at iconic Volksbühne Theatre intervened, saying: “Due to Jeremy Corbyn’s current stance on the Middle East conflict, we have decided not to offer him a public audience at the Volksbühne“. How things change, Jezza will have to stay away from his old East Berlin stalking ground…

Treasury Minister Victoria Atkins slammed Starmer and the “problem with his character” for sitting “round that shadow Cabinet table with Jeremy Corbyn” while antisemitism complaints beset Labour and “said nothing“. On Question Time last night, she commended Yvette Cooper for refusing to serve in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet, whilst blasting the Labour leader for urging voters to vote for his “personal friend“. Perhaps this explains why “nothing man” Starmer took a hit in focus groups yesterday for his weak character…

This follows Corbyn’s Tribune article attacking Starmer, saying politicians who give “unwavering support” to Israel “should be ashamed of their cowardice.” Friends turned foes…

While Starmer may make all the right noises on Corbyn’s disastrous leadership now it’s in the rear view mirror, he still can’t answer the direct question of why he told voters to vote for Jeremy – “a personal friend” – at two general elections. Even last night, when asked by Beth Rigby, he can only offer a word salad:

“Well look, I think in 2017 and 2019, the Labour Party lost its way. And that’s why my first words as Labour leader… were to rip anti-semitism out from its roots… every Labour party member and activist always wants a Labour government but I’m not going to shy away from the fact that we lost our way in recent years… which is why I was utterly determined to change our party…”

Despite repeated questioning, he can’t give a coherent answer. Wonder why…