Blunt: 'No obligation' to share intelligence with Corbyn

Crispin Blunt, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, says the government is not under any obligation to share intelligence information with the new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

His comments come just days after a senior serving general, speaking anonymously to the Sunday Times, said Mr Corbyn's victory had been greeted with 'wholesale dismay' in the army. He warned there would be "mass resignations at all levels and you would face the very real prospect of an event which would effectively be a mutiny" if Mr Corbyn became prime minister.

Mr Blunt told BBC HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur that the serving general's opinion was "inappropriate" and that if Jeremy Corbyn were elected prime minister the army like everyone else would have to carry out the instructions of the elected government.

In the meantime, it was a matter for the government to decide how much access to privileged information the leader of the opposition had. There would be no point in passing on such information if it would not achieve consensus, he said.

You can see the interview in full on BBC World News on Tuesday 22 September at 14:30 and 19:30 GMT and on the BBC News Channel at 20:30 BST and again at 00:30 BST on Wednesday 23 September.