Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's Twitter account was seemingly targeted by hackers on Sunday evening.

A series of posts were tweeted shortly after 9pm, including one saying: "davey cameron is a pie."

Another tweet used explicit language to declare opposition to the Trident nuclear programme, something Mr Corbyn is well-known for being against.

Mr Corbyn's team quickly regained control of the @jeremycorbyn account and the offending tweets were deleted.

"At least they weren't subtle," a source said.