Stephen Hawking has branded Jeremy Corbyn a “disaster” for the Labour Party and called on him to resign.
Echoing calls from other high-profile Labour voters – and several of Corbyn’s own colleagues – Hawking added: “I think he should step down for the sake of the party.”
In a rare public interview to coincide with his 75th birthday, the physicist also expressed wider fears for the future of humanity, warning that the increasingly deadly abilities of modern technology may one day turn our primal instincts into our downfall.