CORBYN AND THE GAPES OF WRATH

WHEN senior Labour MP Mike Gapes was challenged on social media about his attacks on Comrade Corbyn over the Labour leader’s disastrous response to the Salisbury poisoning and the Syrian bombing raid, he had a succinct response. Referring to four past leaders of the party, he said: ‘I will be as loyal to Corbyn as he was to Foot, Kinnock, Blair and Brown.’ In other words, relentlessly disloyal.