Sky News takes down article which referred to Jeremy Corbyn as 'Jihadi Jez' after petition independent.co.uk

The nickname was attributed to an anonymous source. An online news article which referred to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as “Jihadi Jez” has been taken down by its publisher.

The blog post, by a Sky News journalist, quoted an anonymous source that referred to Mr Corbyn using the phrase as a name in its headline.

A petition calling for the piece to be taken down had reached 52,000 signatures by Monday afternoon when the writing was pulled from the internet.

A “page not found” error is now displayed at the web address where the piece was previously located.