UK politics live news: Corbyn criticises Labour’s decision to settle antisemitism libel case

It was incredibly difficult. Having gone to work for the Labour party and having always supported the Labour party throughout my life, I never expected to find myself in this position where I was publicly speaking out against the Labour party – that in itself was difficult.

Then of course there has been the fact that I’ve been accused of various things, both in my time with the party and since – having bad motives, having an axe to grind, being a Tory or whatever, which is just deeply hurtful and today is a very momentous step in moving forward from that.

I’m very pleased that our reputations have been restored and that the truth of what we said has been acknowledged by the party – that means a great deal.

But of course it will take a long time to repair the damage done to our character by these unfounded attacks.