Jeremy Corbyn advisors were investigated by MI5 for wanting to 'destroy democracy'.
JEREMY Corbyn’s advisors were investigated by MI5 for wanting to “destroy” democracy in the UK, according to a former head of the Security Service.
Advisors to Jeremy Corbyn are ex-members of Trotskyist organisations from the 1980s.
According to Dame Stella Rimington, they were investigated by MI5 for “subversion”.
Some of them are now members of Momentum, the left-wing grassroots organisation that helped create support for Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership bid.
Dame Stella at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, said: “I now see in Momentum some of the people we were looking at in the Trotskyist organisation of the 1980s, now grown up and advising our would-be prime minister Mr Corbyn on how to prepare himself for power.
"Looking at it from the outside now that's quite an ironic turn of events."
When asked if she could remember any names she added: "Certainly their names are familiar, shall we say that much?”
Chief of staff of the Unite union and former member Andrew Murray was a former member of the Communist Party of Britain and was at the Labour HQ in the run-up to the General Election.
Unite is also Labour’s biggest donor.
Mr Murray left the Communist Party last year to join the Labour Party.
Momentum’s organiser in Haringey, north London, Liam McNulty was also an activist in the Trotskyist Alliance for Worker’s Liberty.
