‘He would never talk about sex’

DAMNING allegations about Jeremy Corbyn in the book Dangerous Hero include:

Mr Corbyn agreed to send one son to a Montessori nursery costing £600 a term.

He regularly scavenged wood from skips plus railway paraphernalia, such as signs.

First wife Jane Chapman said her ex-husband “never spoke about sex, music, fashion or books”.

Mr Corbyn refused to visit the summer palace in Vienna because it was “royal”, while he also denounced the stunning boulevard, the Ringstrasse as “capitalist”.

Labour frontbencher Diane Abbott left him because it was “hard to have a relationship with someone who doesn’t come home for two weeks”.

A vegetarian, he ate meat with Cuba’s Fidel Castro.

He had planned to retire to Wiltshire to keep bees until persuaded to run for leader.

When told he was “too nice” by former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, he replied: “John McDonnell will do all the scary stuff.”

Friends questioned whether wife Claudia Bracchitta had “bourgeois tendencies” as she wanted to hire a cleaner.

He grew up in a five-bedroom 17th-Century farmhouse in Shropshire called Yew Tree Manor.

His Latin teacher said he was “not noticeably clever”. He failed one A-Level and got a grade E in two others.

The MP publicly talks of his support for Arsenal but “finds the game crude and awful”.