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The Labour leader said he is a ‘values-led person’ but would not say whether he views himself as ‘woke’.

Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister, said it showed “how easy a country can slip surreptitiously into totalitarianism” at the time.

The lack of widely-available, reliable broadband has been made more acute by the Covid-19 crisis – with many children struggling to access remote learning as a result of the so-called “digital divide”.

Close to £100 million has been given to a firm co-founded by a wealthy Tory donor.

Many have pointed to one of the core pledges of Labour’s election manifesto in 2019 - free broadband for all - as an answer to the problem.

According to Ofcom estimates more than 880,000 children live in a household with only a mobile internet connection.

Starmer said Corbyn’s comments that antisemitism had been exaggerated for “political reasons” had “undermined our work in restoring trust” with the Jewish community.

But signs of a split within the party have emerged, with Momentum holding a virtual Stand with Corbyn rally this evening.

Is Starmer driving out the Left of the Labour Party, or drawing a line under Labour's long-standing anti-Semitism issue?