LAWYERS for Jeremy Corbyn wrote to Conservative vice-chairman Ben Bradley yesterday demanding an apology for a “libellous” tweet claiming the Labour leader sold secrets to communist spies.

Mr Bradley has also been asked to make a donation to a charity of Mr Corbyn’s choice in lieu of damages.

A spokesman for the Labour leader accused the right-wing press yesterday of endangering his safety by branding him a terrorist sympathiser.

They pointed out that Finsbury Park terrorist Darren Osborne said Mr Corbyn had been his intended target due to his supposed support for terrorism.

In a grilling by Andrew Neil on Daily Politics yesterday, Brexit Minister Steve Baker refused to stand behind Tory colleagues who said Mr Corbyn had “betrayed” Britain.

“I’m not going to accuse my colleagues of lies or disinformation. They will need to defend what they’ve said,” Mr Baker said.

Germany’s Federal Commission took the unusual step yesterday of dispelling the rumours that there were any Stasi records on Mr Corbyn or shadow foreign secretary Diane Abbott. 

Spokeswoman Dagmar Hovestaedt said that “the most recent researches in the written records of the Ministry for State Security of East Germany have not produced any records or any other information” on the pair.