Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has paid tribute to the Tolpuddle Martyrs.

Mr Corbyn said he was honoured to lay a wreath on behalf of the Labour Party at the annual event.

He said: "We must never forget their sacrifice. Because of these six men we have a trade union movement not just in the UK but all over the world."

Earlier today in a speech, Mr Corbyn touched on issues facing agricultural workers and anti-Semitism.

A Labour government will reinstate a body which sets the wages of agricultural workers, party leader Jeremy Corbyn is pledging.

He told the festival that he wants to reverse a decision taken in 2013 to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board.

A reinstated board would ensure that rural workers in England were entitled to minimum rates of pay which may be higher than the national minimum wage, paid holiday, sick pay and rest breaks, Labour believes.

Mr Corbyn said: "Almost 200 years after the Tolpuddle Martyrs bravely stood against the exploitation of employers paying poverty wages, Labour is committed to reintroducing the Agricultural Wages Board and increasing pay and fundamental rights for all agricultural workers.

"This decision will bring back millions of pounds to workers across the English countryside, in addition to guaranteed paid holiday, sick pay, and rest breaks.

"Rural workers have been consistently ignored by the Tories. The South West is the low pay capital of the UK. Here, and across the English countryside, agricultural workers have been abandoned by the shameful decision to scrap the Agricultural Wages Board.

"The struggle of the Tolpuddle Martyrs sowed the seed for the modern trade union movement and the Labour Party itself. The best way to honour that noble struggle is not just to remember why it took place, but to secure in our time what those workers fought for: the right to fair pay and decent working conditions."

Agriculture Minister George Eustice said: "The Agricultural Wages Board became redundant after this Conservative Government increased the minimum wage and then introduced the new National Living Wage.

"Labour have never supported the rural economy and their policies would threaten jobs in rural areas."

Mr Corbyn called on the Labour Parliamentary Party to delay their emergency motion on adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism.

"I'd rather they delayed that discussion until September because there will be a full attendance at meetings in September," the Labour leader said.

Mr Corbyn also revealed he had not spoken to MP Dame Margaret Hodge since she confronted him over the issue.

He added: "A complaint has been registered and that will have to be dealt with by the party, but that is independent of me."

Mr Corbyn also defended the position taken by Labour's ruling NEC in not including within its new code of conduct the full definition of anti-Semitism - including illustrative examples - set out by the IHRA.

"(The NEC) wasn't trying to re-write it, it has accepted almost all of it," he said. "What it's done is also put alongside it a code of conduct for members of the party because we will not tolerate anti-Semitism in any form whatsoever in the party.

He added: "What we also agreed to do at the National Executive Committee is that we would have a consultation process now with a number of organisations.

"What's been done is an honest attempt to make sure that we do make it clear we will not tolerate anti-Semitism in any form and we will allow legitimate debate on issues facing Israel and Palestine, but it cannot ever be conducted in any anti-Semitic form."