Miriam Margolyes says there could 'easily' be a pogrom against British Jews

“What a collection of nasty people there are in charge of us,” she said. “What a disgrace. I’m disgusted by that government.”

The Blackadder and Babe star was one of more than 200 British Jews to pledge their support for Mr Corbyn before the general election in December, saying the Government's policies were "completely at odds with the Jewish tradition of social justice and likely to fuel the rise of the far right".

“People don’t like Jews. I’ve accepted that,” she told the Guardian. “There is some antisemitism [in Labour], but it is nowhere near as much as people say.

“Corbyn handled it badly and I regret it, because he’s a good man and he’s not an antisemite.”

Ms Margolyes also said that, growing up as the daughter of a doctor and a property developer, her small Jewish family as “a fortress, just the three of us. It was passionate, close, adoring.”