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!”