FORMER Labour peer Alan Sugar has been criticised over sexist comments he made about shadow home secretary Diane Abbott.

In a bizarre 24-line “ode to Jeremy Corbyn” posted on Twitter with the caption, “Will some of the Labour MPs and Lords grow a pair and get him OUT,” Mr Sugar referred to Ms Abbott as Mr Corbyn’s “lover.”

The former enterprise tsar under Gordon Brown then responded to a critic’s comment that it “must be sad when you have to buy your importance” with another sexist jibe. “Looking at your Twitter pic, you need to buy a face job, love!”

Only last week, Mr Sugar was forced to delete an offensive tweet of a photoshopped picture showing Mr Corbyn in a car with Adolf Hitler following widespread complaints.

Before taking down the post, the billionaire said the tweet was “a joke, but the angry brigade like to moan.”

That was not the first time Mr Sugar had been made to delete a tweet. In January 2011, he had to remove a potentially prejudicial posting during the trial of Tory peer Lord Taylor of Warwick for false accounting over £11,000 in parliamentary expenses.

He was also the subject of a police investigation over an allegedly racist tweet in September 2013, after he posted a photo of an Asian child crying with the caption, “The kid in the middle is upset because he was told off for leaving the production line of the iPhone 5.”

Merseyside Police investigated after receiving a complaint but concluded that no criminal offence had taken place.