A MINUTE’S

silence in memory of Tessa Jowell was disrupted by hecklers at a London Labour Party meeting. One woman at the Hampstead and Kilburn branch shouted that Jowell had ‘voted to murder a lot of people’ by supporting welfare reform and the Iraq war. Others objected to her links to Tony Blair and demanded that the minute’s silence — which marked Jowell’s career as a Labour councillor in the area and as a Cabinet minister — be dedicated to Palestinians in Gaza instead. This must be the kinder, gentler politics Jeremy Corbyn promised.