Corbyn on Stormzy's Glastonbury headline slot: "It’ll go down in our country’s cultural history.”

Jeremy Corbyn has said Stormzy’s Glastonbury headline slot will ‘go down in our country’s cultural history’.

The Labour leader took to social media to praise the Grime artist’s Pyramid Stage performance on Friday night (June 28). He tweeted: “Tonight Stormzy made history by being the first black solo British headliner at Glastonbury.

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“The performance was political, iconic and the ballet was beautifully powerful. It won’t just go down in Glastonbury history – it’ll go down in our country’s cultural history.”

He wasn’t the only Labour member who praised the 25-year-old’s performance. David Lammy was ‘humbled’ after Stormzy used a speech made by the MP for Tottenham in his set.

Lammy tweeted: “Stormzy using his headline spot at #glastonburyfestival2019 to speak out about the injustice of young black kids being criminalised in a biased and disproportionate justice system. Humbled and inspired that he sampled my speech. Salute #Merky.”

The 46-year-old MP added: “The system isn't working. If you’re black, you’re treated more harshly by the criminal justice system than if you’re white.”

There was some controversy following Stormzy’s performance after he urged the 100,000 strong audience to show ‘f**k the government and f**k Boris’ - some of the lyrics to his hit Vossy Bop.

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Potential Prime Minister Boris Johnson took the dig in good spirits however, joking the rapper was actually urging fans to ‘back Boris’. He told Press Association: "I want to pay tribute to Stormzy - I am a great enthusiast and admirer of Mr Stormzy's works and I think he's one of the great lyricists and poets of our time.

"And I want to thank him for his rousing endorsement of the Back Boris campaign.

"Back Boris I think was what he said and there may have been some problem with the acoustics that caused him to be briefly misunderstood, but Stormzy seems to me to be thoroughly on message."

A spokeswoman for the BBC said the set was well received.

"The BBC will broadcast over 100 performances from Glastonbury 2019 and Stormzy's Friday headline performance received a hugely positive response from the audience, peaking at 1.5 million views on BBC Two before digital and catch-up is included.

"There were also 380,000 BBC iPlayer requests to watch Stormzy's set live."

Glastonbury continues today (30 June) with The Cure set to close the festival headlining the Pyramid Stage tonight.