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by Paul Waugh | Politics
Jeremy Corbyn has been up early, addressing the postal workers at Mount Pleasant sorting office as part of the CWU’s national day of campaigning against Tory policies. Allies of the Labour leader have been busy hosing down reports that Ken Livingstone could be considered for a peerage (“total nonsense” is how one senior aide put it to me), while Diane Abbott herself dismissed claims that she was being lined up as the new Shadow Chief Whip (more likely is Jon Trickett, some are whispering).
Jim Naughtie yesterday used his Mail on Sunday column to suggest that Corbyn should appear on the Today prog more often. “Those who stay away (memo to Jeremy Corbyn) won’t gain from it in the end.” As it happens, it was on Today on the Wednesday of Labour conference that Corbyn was asked the big question about whether he’d personally authorised the use of nuclear weapons as PM.
The Sun picks up on the Sunday Tel story that James Schneider, the leading light in Momentum, went to public school (Winchester, just like Seumas Milne, so JC may not find that an obstacle) and his dad made a pile in the City. Nick Clegg popped up on Radio 4 yesterday to suggest Labour was being ‘self induglent’. I note that Simon Danczuk in his Mail on Sunday column raised the idea that the public were already seeing the PLP and the Corbynistas as two different parties.
Tonight, it’s the last PLP before the Christmas break. I wonder if Corbyn will cite the Daily Mail front page today in his last PMQs before Xmas: it points out the PM is in retreat not just on EU migrants, but on reckless bankers and on junk food.
Jeremy Corbyn has been up early, addressing the postal workers at Mount Pleasant sorting office as part of the CWU’s national day of campaigning against Tory policies. Allies of the Labour leader have been busy hosing down reports that Ken Livingstone could be considered for a peerage (“total nonsense” is how one senior aide put it to me), while Diane Abbott herself dismissed claims that she was being lined up as the new Shadow Chief Whip (more likely is Jon Trickett, some are whispering).
Jim Naughtie yesterday used his Mail on Sunday column to suggest that Corbyn should appear on the Today prog more often. “Those who stay away (memo to Jeremy Corbyn) won’t gain from it in the end.” As it happens, it was on Today on the Wednesday of Labour conference that Corbyn was asked the big question about whether he’d personally authorised the use of nuclear weapons as PM.
The Sun picks up on the Sunday Tel story that James Schneider, the leading light in Momentum, went to public school (Winchester, just like Seumas Milne, so JC may not find that an obstacle) and his dad made a pile in the City. Nick Clegg popped up on Radio 4 yesterday to suggest Labour was being ‘self induglent’. I note that Simon Danczuk in his Mail on Sunday column raised the idea that the public were already seeing the PLP and the Corbynistas as two different parties.
Tonight, it’s the last PLP before the Christmas break. I wonder if Corbyn will cite the Daily Mail front page today in his last PMQs before Xmas: it points out the PM is in retreat not just on EU migrants, but on reckless bankers and on junk food.
* Paul Waugh is the Executive Editor, Politics, HuffPost UK.
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