LEN McCLUSKEY branded Tom Watson a “disgrace” on Saturday for attacking Labour’s general secretary Jennie Formby in the national press.

Speaking at the Durham Miners’ Gala, the Unite general secretary lashed out the Labour deputy leader for his public attacks on Ms Formby over the party’s handling of anti-semitism allegations.

To loud cheers, he said: “The attacks on Jennie would be wrong in normal circumstances, but when they are in the circumstances where she is battling cancer, they are unacceptable.