Jeremy Corbyn featured in an election poster 30 years ago – made by the TORIES

JEREMY Corbyn was first thrown into the election limelight 30 years ago – by the TORIES.

Margaret Thatcher used the then rookie MP in a massive poster blitz to demonstrate how Labour had lurched to the left.

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He was the centrepiece of the 1987 ad campaign dreamed up by Saatchi and Saatchi.

It depicted six hard-left members of the Labour party – including Corbyn allies Diane Abbott and Ken Livingstone - with the caption: “So this is the new moderate militant-free Labour party”.

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A mugshot of youthful Mr Corbyn was printed above a quote of him saying: “Defeat of the Tory Government will be brought about by a series of disputes, of which parliament is only part.”

Tory MP Stewart Jackson said: “These three have spent a lifetime trying to clobber people with tax hikes, spending binges and nuclear disarmament.

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“Now they have a chance to put this into practice, propped up by the Lib Dems and the SNP in a coalition of chaos.

“It’s scary. The only way we can stop it is with a vote for Theresa May’s team.”