Jeremy Corbyn ranted about ‘terror hysteria’ WEEKS before the 7/7 bombings and then said the Islamist murderers were ‘denied hope and opportunity’
In the wake of the 2005 attack on the capital, the Labour leader claimed any clampdown 'merely hands power to the security services'
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn attacked “anti-terror hysteria” in the UK just weeks before the 7/7 bombings, The Sun can reveal.
And days after jihadi bombers killed 52 people in London in 2005, Mr Corbyn said the Islamist murderers had been “denied hope and opportunity”.
In the wake of the attack on the capital, Mr Corbyn claimed any clampdown “merely hands power to the security services” in a column for the communist Morning Star newspaper
He blamed UK foreign policy for the bombings but also suggested innocent people were killed “in the crossfire”.
In March 2005 Mr Corbyn raged against increasing Britain’s terror defences, saying: “The anti-terror hysteria of today is tomorrow’s miscarriage of justice.”
He added: “Parliament has failed to protect our basic civil liberties. It is up to all of us to make sure that it does so in future.”
Mr Corbyn also pounced on the brutal killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby in 2013, to push his hard-left agenda.
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Again in the Morning Star, he wrote: “Immediately after the Woolwich killing London Mayor Boris Johnson appeared on scene, saying it could not be connected in any way with British foreign policy. Really?”
Instead he blamed “a steady growth of Islamophobia in this country… the language and rhetoric of George W Bush and Tony Blair poisoned the atmosphere and heightened the divisions in our society.”
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THE widow of a Tory MP murdered by the IRA has written to voters in his old constituency to brand Jeremy Corbyn a danger to Britain.
Dame Jane Gow — wife of the late Ian Gow assassinated by bomb in 1991 — told voters in Eastbourne “I am not a very party political animal” but they would “understand” why she felt the need to make her powerful warning.
She said: “The dangers posed to our country by Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party are too great to ignore.”
She went on: “almost 27 years have passed since my late husband was murdered by IRA car bomb at our home.”
Adding that “we live in an increasingly dangerous world” she backed Theresa May to keep the country safe.