'SHUT UP KEN'
KEN Livingstone has gone on another rant about Hitler - just hours after his party lost key seats and councils over anti-Semitism.
Within just 10 seconds of an interview this morning the disgraced ex-London Mayor insisted that anti-Semitic allegations against him were a "smear" and that the Nazi dictator HAD "collaborated" with Zionists in the 1930s.
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In an interview with Sky News today he defended the party's poor performance in yesterday's local elections, by saying: "There was a deal done.
"You only have to go on Jerusalem's Holocaust website. One of the documents you can download about the deal the Zionists did with Hitler in the 1930s.
"Hitler wanted to get all the Jews out of Germany and the Zionists wanted to move them all and create a Jewish state in Palestine.
And although he said that fascism was the "defining issue of our childhood", he insisted that he only spoke about the German leader when he was asked to.
Ken Livingstone discusses whether the Holocaust was 'exploited to oppress others'
He added: "When we had the hearing a year ago, I said 'If you expel me I will go to court. You haven't got a chance of winning.'
"How can you expel someone for stating a historical fact but take no action against MPs who lied about what you'd said, and claimed I'd said Hitler was a Zionist?
"I am optimistic. I believe that the truth should prevail."
One senior campaigner wrote on Twitter: "Oh for the love of God shut up Ken."
And Labour Mp Tulip Siddiq added: "Please please get this irrelevant man off my TV screen."
Last week it emerged that the shamed Labour grandee was secretly campaigning for the party ahead of the local elections battle - despite being barred from it.
Mr Livingstone has been suspended from Labour for around two years after he brought the party into disrepute.
He claimed Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was a Zionist — a supporter of the Jewish homeland — in the 1930s.
This was "before he went mad and killed six million Jews", Red Ken said in a radio interview with Vanessa Feltz on the BBC back in 2016.
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His suspension was extended back in March this year while he is subject to another formal investigation about his behaviour.
On Holocaust Memorial Day the ex-London Mayor sparked yet more fury when he appeared on Iranian state TV on a segment asking whether the Holocaust has been "exploited".
Today he said that the last month had seen "endless stories about anti-Semitism" which had meant the party hadn't been able to get across its key messages about what it would do in local government.
But he insisted today's results were still good, as the party held all of the boroughs it had before.
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Mr Corbyn has struggled to control a growing anti-semitism crisis in his party in recent weeks.
Thousands demonstrated outside Parliament just last month - where his own MPs demanded he step up and do more to tackle the scourge of hatred in his own ranks.
And Jewish leaders who met with him declared they had no faith he would be able to root out the deep-set problems among leftie supporters of the Labour boss.
Labour was tipped to make huge gains - but they have completely failed to materialise today as Westminster and Wandsworth in London stayed Tory.
And Barnet - one of the crown jewels the party was aiming for - also went blue from No Overall Control beforehand.
The leftie boss insisted today that peak Corbyn was NOT over and the party were still on track to win the next election.
This was the first key electoral test since last year's snap General Election - but most councils have stayed the same.