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Team Corbyn laughs off ‘ridiculous’ cold war spy smear

ALLIES of Jeremy Corbyn responded with bewilderment to today’s front page story in the Sun accusing the Labour leader of a 1980s spy novel-style plot involving Czech security services. 

The story alleges that Mr Corbyn was placed on a Czech list of foreign sources. 

But those around Mr Corbyn pointed out that a junior back-bench MP would not hold any privileged information to leak.

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