Jeremy Corbyn has criticised Angela Rayner for approving the sale of eight allotment sites in England since Labour took power, in order to raise money for councils budgets.

The former Labour leader - who launched a new party with Zarah Sultana in July - said the government is putting a "nail in the coffin" for allotment holders.

Rayner, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government , has approved the sale of sites in Somerset, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire, Nottinghamshire, West Sussex, Derbyshire and Kent.

Under the Allotments Act 1925, land that is designated "statutory allotment" cannot be sold or repurposed without ministerial consent.

Corbyn is a keen horticulturist and has been using an allotment near Islington, North London, for 22 years.

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