JEREMY Corbyn has been slammed for getting it "completely wrong" over his response to the Novichok attack in Salisbury.

Labour leadership candidate Lisa Nandy made the comments during a speech to the Royal Society of Arts in London on Wednesday.

She said: "It was completely wrong that our response to this was to cast doubt on what happened and call only for dialogue."

The nerve agent attack in March 2018 left former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia seriously ill in hospital, as well as Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey.

In July 2018, Dawn Sturgess died after coming into contact with the nerve agent. Her partner Charlie Rowley was left seriously ill.

Ms Nandy said"At a crucial moment, we hesitated in condemning an authoritarian regime that supports Donald Trump, invades its neighbours, steals its country's wealth, that interferes in elections in Europe and America, attacks minority communities and then used chemical weapons on the streets of the UK.

"We stood with the Russian government, and not with the people it oppresses, who suffer poverty and discrimination.

"We failed the test of solidarity."