Jeremy Corbyn wades in on Labour’s war with the BBC – ‘they are obsessed with trying to damage the leadership’

When Seumas Milne wrote a letter of complaint to the BBC after Stephen Doughtly resigned from the shadow Cabinet live on Daily Politics, many in the Labour party thought it showed a lack of judgment on the part of Corbyn’s spin doctor.

However, a new VICE News documentary on the Corbyn leadership — titled Jeremy Corbyn: The Outsider — suggests that Milne is really just echoing the views of his boss when it comes to his stance on the Beeb Discussing the local election results, the interviewer puts to Corbyn that not all is rosy when it comes to his leadership. However, Corbyn hits back — suggesting that they are simply watching too much news on the BBC. He says they are ‘obsessed’ with trying to damage his leadership:

‘There is not one story on any election anywhere in the UK that the BBC will not spin into a problem for me. It’s obsessive beyond belief, they are obsessed with trying to damage the leadership of the Labour party.