LABOUR should choose Jeremy Corbyn as its next leader not on grounds of “electability” but to “change the conversation,” musician Brian Eno told a packed rally on Monday night.

Speaking alongside Mr Corbyn and former London mayor Ken Livingstone, ambient music pioneer Mr Eno said the Islington North MP would challenge the parameters of political debate.

“This whole fear of the Murdoch press and the Daily Mail makes people choose their words so carefully they end up saying nothing,” he told the crowd at the Camden Centre in north London.

The former Roxy Music synth player, who previously endorsed the Liberal Democrats, joked that he was impressed with the dogged parliamentarian’s omnipresence at protests and rallies.

He said: “I’ve often been on platforms with Jeremy and thought: Don’t you have a social life? What about the coke and the orange bras and so on?”

“What I really thought was, what a great guy to be there.

“What I’m really really hoping for more than anything else is the first transatlantic summit between Jeremy Corbyn and Donald Trump.”