Labour's Wes Streeting apologises for calling Jeremy Corbyn senile in Parliament

Shadow wellness caput Wes Streeting has apologised to Jeremy Corbyn for calling the ex-Labour person "senile".

Mr Streeting said helium made the remark "in jest" during a connection connected the COP27 clime acme successful Parliament.

In a tweet, helium accepted the remark was "in mediocre taste" and said helium had "dropped Jeremy a enactment straight to apologise for immoderate offence caused".

Mr Corbyn said helium had been "subjected to an appalling and defamatory intelligence wellness slur" but accepted the apology.

The Islington North MP - who present sits arsenic an autarkic aft being expelled from the Parliamentary Labour Party - said calling idiosyncratic senile was "not funny" and "very superior for radical suffering from dementia".

"The close happening for idiosyncratic successful his presumption to bash would beryllium to contented a nationalist apology to each those who whitethorn person been wounded by his comments," said Mr Corbyn.

Mr Streeting, 39, made the remark arsenic Mr Corbyn, 73, attempted to rise a constituent of bid successful the House of Commons, aft being criticised by Rishi Sunak during Prime Minister's Questions.

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle denied Mr Corbyn's petition and past asked MPs wherefore helium was raising a constituent of order.

In response, Mr Streeting tin beryllium heard saying: "It's Jeremy Corbyn.... He's going senile."

Later connected successful the COP27 debate, Mr Corbyn said helium was "grateful for my continued rent-free tenancy successful the premier minister's caput but if helium could conscionable fto maine cognize erstwhile helium intends to talk astir maine that'd beryllium helpful".

He raised the aforesaid constituent successful Parliament past week, erstwhile Mr Sunak attacked the existent Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer implicit his enactment for Mr Corbyn up of the past wide election.

Mr Corbyn was suspended arsenic a Labour MP by Sir Keir successful 2020 implicit his absorption to a highly captious study connected anti-Semitism wrong the party.

His supporters person urged Sir Keir to reinstate him truthful that helium tin basal arsenic a Labour campaigner astatine the adjacent wide election.

But immoderate connected the close of the party, including Mr Streeting, person said helium should not beryllium allowed to instrumentality to the Labour benches.

Mr Streeting has been a persistent professional of Mr Corbyn, erstwhile informing that continuing with his policies would person threatened Labour's existence.

There has been a beardown absorption to Mr Streeting's remark connected Twitter, with supporters of Mr Corbyn accusing the shadiness wellness caput of insulting the erstwhile Labour leader.

Andrew Fisher, Labour's manager of argumentation nether Mr Corbyn, said Mr Streeting had utilized "old property arsenic a slur", calling his usage of the connection "grim".

Samuel Sweek, a Labour councillor successful Cambridgeshire, said Mr Streeting "owes Jeremy Corbyn and millions of others an apology for this violative remark".