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Sir Keir Starmer led Labour members in singing socialist anthem The Red Flag at the end of the Labour Party conference. Hundreds of Labour delegates sang the song with pride at the end of the Labour Party conference.
Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner was also on stage belting out the socialist anthem from the main hall.
A number of delegates also flew large red flags as the party celebrated its socialist roots.
Labour shares the song as its official anthem with the Japanese Communist Party and Kim Jong Un’s Korean People’s Army.
When Sir Tony Blair was leader of the Labour Party, he ditched the singing of the song to mark the end of the conference.
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Mr Corbyn criticised Sir Keir’s decision as “very, very odd”.
He said: “They’ve never done it before, there’s never been any demand to do it.
“We don’t as a country routinely go around singing the national anthem at every single event we go to.
“We don’t sing in schools, we don’t have the raising of the flag as they do in the USA and other places.
“We are not that sort of, what I would call, excessively nationalist.”
However, a Labour source shrugged off the comments and said there was proof the party had changed under Sir Keir.
They told Express.co.uk: “The fact everyone respected the minute’s silence and sang the anthem. That wouldn’t have happened a year ago.
“I think we’re all just happy with the way the whole conference has gone.”
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