This week, a Sky News video has been doing the rounds on Twitter in which an exasperated Jeremy Corbyn supporter cast doubt on the row over the ongoing wreath-laying controversy by declaring that the Labour leader is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. End of.
https://twitter.com/Jamin2g/status/1029448470028013570
Just in case readers are in any doubt, Mr S can confirm this claim is not true. But Mr S thinks he can guess where it came from.
A few months ago, Corbyn’s supporters began to rebut questions about his commitment to peace by asserting that he was a winner of the Gandhi Peace Prize. The prize is bestowed annually by the Indian government for ‘contributions towards social, economic and political transformation through non-violence and other Gandhian methods’. Past winners include Nelson Mandela, Václav Havel, and Desmond Tutu.
A cursory Google yields that it was in fact never awarded to Corbyn.
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