THE only thing more slimy than the “spy” smears uttered by the Mail and Sun against Jeremy Corbyn is Theresa May’s po-faced assertion that he should be “open and transparent” and “account” for past deeds.

The Mail has previous in abundance, from publishing the forged Zinoviev letter just before the 1924 general election to discredit Labour, to backing Oswald Mosley’s anti-semitic fascists with its Hurrah for the Blackshirts story.

Rupert Murdoch’s rag can never be taken seriously as a newspaper after the lies it propagated to whitewash the police riot against striking miners at Orgreave and South Yorkshire Police’s blaming of Liverpool football fans at Hillsborough for a tragedy caused by its own failings.