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Let's just go through that because in the last two general elections, you asked people to elect Jeremy Corbyn as their prime minister.

You said, I do think Jeremy Corbyn would

make a great Prime Minister, Jeremy Corbyn. Did you mean that? I was certain that we would

lose the 2019 election. That wasn't my question. I was certain that we would, I was certain that we

would lose it. I did campaign for Labour. Of course I did.

I will openly say our campaign for Labour.

I wanted good colleagues to be returned into the Labour Party.

You didn't mean it then when you said it?

And I wanted a party that was capable of being changed so we could face the future again.

Sir, did you not mean it when you said it?

I was certain that we would lose.

That's not a question. So you didn't mean it when you said it. I was certain that we would lose. And I think many other people were certain that we would lose.

So you didn't mean it?

I was certain that we would lose.

So you said it because you didn't think he would be prime minister anyway?

Of course I campaigned for the Labour Party at the last election and the election before that, the one before that.

An election is about the future, about what you will do, about what you will build. But Keir Stama tonight was taken

back to the last election. And boy, was it uncomfortable for him to have to justify his support

for Jeremy Corbyn, a man now expelled from the Labour Party? It was the toughest test of the election

so far for Stama and probably

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