Jeremy Corbyn was not a Soviet collaborator, and the person in charge of the Czech secret service file says she can prove it.

The Labour leader has faced a string of lurid accusations about meetings with a a man named Jan Dymic, a diplomat working in the Czech embassy in the 1980s.

It's claimed Corbyn was registered as a contact for the country's now defunct secret service - the StB.

Dymic - whose real name is Ján Sarkocy - was the third secretary of the Czechoslovak foreign ministry, in charge of “peace movement.”

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He initially made the claim to have met with Corbyn in Parliament around six months ago.

But in more recent claims, he suggests Corbyn was on the Czech secret service payroll.

But last night, the person in charge of the archive of Czechoslovakia's intelligence files blew the claims out of the water.

Svetlana Ptáčníková, Head of the Czech Secret Service archive told the BBC the intelligence services did have a file on Corbyn - but the serial number for the file does not match claims he was an informant.

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She said: "Mr Corbyn was not a secret collaborator working for the Czechoslovakian intelligence service.

"The files we have on him are kept in a file that starts with the identification number 1.

"Secret collaborators were allocated numbers that started with the number 4.

"If he had been successfully recruited as an informer, then his person of interest file would have been closed and a new one would have been opened, and that would have started with the number 4."