Why Jeremy Corbyn snubbed David Cameron before the Queen's speech

Speculation has been rife as to why Jeremy Corbyn ignored David Cameron's small talk

The topic of conversation which led Jeremy Corbyn to snub David Cameron before the Queen’s speech has been revealed.

Television images showed Labour leader appearing to ignore Mr Cameron’s attempts at small talk. Instead, the pair appeared to walk in awkward silence to the speech.

Speculation has been rife as to what caused the rebuke, in which Mr Corbyn remained stern-faced throughout their stroll.

The Prime Minister has now revealed all on LBC Radio, admitting he had been scraping for some common ground with Mr Corbyn by trying to talk about Latin America.

“I was asking about whether he had time to see the Chilean President when she was in town,” Mr Cameron told the broadcaster, “because I know he’s got a great passion for Latin America and things that are happening there.”

“So we talked about Chile. We talked about Colombia.”

The Labour leader is romantically linked to the continent and was married to a Chilean woman, Claudia Bracchitta, but divorced in 1999. He is now married to a Mexican human rights lawyer, Laura Álvarez, who is twenty years his junior.

Mr Cameron added: "I was about to get on to Venezuela but we didn’t… maybe that’s what went wrong! But that’s sort of the thing we were talking about."

Mr Corbyn has previously expressed support for the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela for rejecting neo-liberalism. As recently as June 2015, he said: “It is a cause for celebration, the achievements of Venezuela, in jobs, in housing, in health, in education, but above all its role in the whole world as a completely different place, we do that because we recognise what they have achieved.”

However, the country is now seen by many to be on the brink of collapse, as an economic crisis causing food, water and power shortages has ravaged the country – despite having had some of the largest oil reserves in the world.

Maybe Mr Cameorn was having a little dig after all...