A vote for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party is a vote for dead British babies lying on the pavement, dismembered by IRA nail bombs, their guts spewed over their dead mothers, and their flesh torn apart. Ms Ridge noted: "But you're condemning all bombing there, can you condemn the IRA without equating it to..."

Sky News' Sophy Ridge On Sunday asked if he could condemn unequivocally the IRA, Mr Corbyn said: "Bombing is wrong, of course all bombing is wrong and of course I condemn it." The Labour leader has said the meetings formed part of his attempt to bring about peace in Northern Ireland at that time. “It is hard to see much good coming for the Labour party from the coming election, except the replacement of their leader.”

Mr Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell have faced scrutiny over their past association with Irish republicans. Security minister Ben Wallace, who served in the North as a soldier during the Troubles, said: "It is a disgrace that a man who wants to be prime minister cannot describe the IRA as terrorists, and to suggest otherwise is an insult to the victims and relatives whose lives were devastated by the IRA's murderous campaign of violence.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will visit families of victims of the IRA bombings in Hyde Park and Regent's Park.