- Jeremy Corbyn says Britain shouldn't "rush way ahead of the evidence over the Salisbury nerve agent attack.
- The Labour leader wrote in a column that Russia was likely responsible, but that it could have also been "mafia-like groups."
- Corbyn has come under criticism from his own MPs over his response to the incident.
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Jeremy Corbyn says the UK shouldn't 'rush way ahead of the evidence' over the Salisbury nerve agent attack
The Labour leader has been criticised by his own MPs over his response to the incident.
Jeremy Corbyn has urged caution over the Salisbury nerve agent attack, arguing that the people shouldn't "rush way ahead of the evidence" and that mistakes have been made before, like the "flawed intelligence" that led to the Iraq War.
Britain, France, Germany, and the USA issued a joint statement on Thursday accusing Russia of being behind the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal in England. Corbyn has said Russia is likely to blame. But he has also been more reticent in his approach than much of the British political establishment — with many Labour backbench MPs openly distancing themselves from him to support Theresa May's response.
Writing in The Guardian on Thursday, Corbyn refused to shift his position in the face of this criticism.
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He also pointed to the Iraq War, a comparison previously made by his spokesperson and denounced by some Labour MPs: "I
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