‘Absolutely shameless’: Ken Loach says BBC helped ‘destroy’ Jeremy Corbyn

Ken Loach said the treatment of Jeremy Corbyn is ‘like the photograph of Trotsky that Stalin cut out’. Photograph: Biel Aliño/EPA

The film director Ken Loach has attacked the BBC for its “absolutely shameless role” in what he describes as “the destruction of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership” of the Labour party.

In an interview with Equal Times, Loach said that the BBC “played a prime role” in the departure of the former Labour leader and Corbyn’s “whole political project, that nearly became the government three years ago, has been wiped out of the public discourse.”