Jeremy Corbyn, 73, says RUNNING accident caused black eye

He’s running: Jeremy Corbyn, 73, reveals he fell over while JOGGING after turning up to support striking rail workers with a black eye and split lip – but says he won’t stop

• He attended rail strike pickets today with a massive shiner under his left eye
• Former Labour leader, 73, said he fell over while jogging in north London
• Said: ‘Me and the tree root collided and I collided with the ground afterwards’

Jeremy Corbyn has revealed that he suffered a split lip and black eye by tripping over a tree root while out jogging on Wednesday.

The former Labour leader attended rail strike pickets today with a massive shiner under his left eye. 

Sporting the injuries at a picket line outside Euston Station, he said: ‘I was out running in Finsbury Park and unfortunately a tree root had protruded over the path.

‘Me and the tree root collided and I collided with the ground afterwards. There was nobody else involved – totally me on my own – but I love running anyway.’

Asked if he would keep up with his running, the Labour leader answered: ‘Of course.’

He was one of a number of past and present Labour figures out supporting strikes today.

He was joined in London with Coventry South MP Zarah Sultana at a picket line at Euston station in the capital’s north.

The former Labour leaders attended rail strike pickets today with a massive shiner under his left eye.

Sporting the injuries at a picket line outside Euston Station, the former Labour leader said: ‘I was out running in Finsbury Park and unfortunately a tree root had protruded over the path.’

Meanwhile in Manchester Rebecca Long-Bailey, who ran against Sir Keir to lead the part in 2020 was among those who visited picket lines.

The Salford MP and Blackley and Broughton’s Graham Stringer defiantly joined members of the RMT and TSSA in Manchester. More than 45,000 rail staff have walked out in a row over pay across the country.

It came despite a warning from a Labour frontbencher that their visible support would not ‘sort this problem out’ or help the party into power.

Hard left MPs have previous joined picket lines, and Sam Tarry was sacked as a transport minister after he joined one in London last month.

Mr Corbyn criticised Sir Keir Starmer’s sacking of Mr Tarry. 

Speaking from a picket line outside London’s Euston station, the former Labour leader – sporting a black eye and split lip from a running injury – said Sam Tarry’s treatment was ‘very unfair’.

Mr Corbyn said: ‘Sam is a trade union person like me, he used to work for the TSSA, he went on a picket line to support his union and his members.

‘I think to dismiss him from his shadow position was very unfair.’

He told Mr Tarry after his sacking that he was ‘very sorry because he was doing a very good job, he was trying to develop a… much better national transport strategy’.

But shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson told Times Radio: ‘We want to be the next government, so, if we were the government, we would be around that negotiating table sorting out the dispute, we would be a party to those negotiations.

‘I don’t think being on a picket line is going to sort this problem out.

‘I think it is right that we do speak to workers who are affected by all of these cost-of-living pressures that we face, but my priority is making sure that we get a Labour government that is able to fix some of these big problems that we face as a country.’

Asked if Labour frontbenchers are allowed to go and stand on a picket line, Ms Phillipson said she has ‘had no discussion around that’.

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