Jeremy Corbyn helps a mother carry her pram up the railway station steps

'You are an absolute diamond,' says one fan of the Labour leader

Jeremy Corbyn has been hailed a "gentlemen" after he was captured on video helping a woman with a large pram.

The Labour leader helped to lift the buggy up a flight of stairs at Crawley train station.

The moment was filmed by Mr Corbyn's press officer and put on his Snapchat, and his social media followers were quick to praise him for the "lovely" gesture.

Rachael Swindon wrote on Twitter: “You are an absolute diamond.”

Harriet Williamson wrote: "This is called being a kind, considerate human. Dunno about you, but I'd like a kind, considerate human for PM." Another called him "a gentleman and lovely".

Serwah O’Neill said that it was her sister who Mr Corbyn had helped, and wrote: “My twin sis said you just helped her carry the buggy upstairs Crawley station. She didn’t recognise you! #LuckyIVotedLabour!"

Mr Corbyn was in the area to attend a local rally as part of a national tour of Conservative marginal seats.

The Labour leader earlier visited a family health practice in Southall, promising to "invest more" in the NHS.

During the visit to the surgery, he said: "We're going to invest more in GP practices and services and invest in nurse training and in GP training because at the moment the pressure is huge on the GPs.

"A lot of the work is actually a consequence of other problems in housing, other problems of stress at home, and that means that the nurse at the practice is dealing of course with medical cases but they are also dealing with a whole load of other things so it is about how we treat and invest in inner city areas."

Labour has not set a specific figure for increased funding for practices, and Mr Corbyn said: "The money will come through taxation and it will cost - and it will cost by raising corporation tax and raising taxes for the very richest in our society.

"We cannot underfund our NHS and expect to have a healthy population."

Additional reporting by PA