Liam and Co going Wilde for Labour

THE Tories may have Jim Davidson and Katie Hopkins campaigning for them, but even those Z-list celebrities must concede they can’t compete with Liam Gallagher. The former Oasis frontman said: “I was brought up in a Labour Party kinda house, so I’ll vote Labour.”

Also joining the growing list of celebrities backing Labour is Poldark star Gabriella Wilde – dubbed the “unofficial stepsister” of Prince Harry’s ex Cressida Bonas. She posted a photograph of herself on Instagram wearing a Vote Labour T-shirt. George Osborne brought his 13-year-old daughter into the London Evening Standard office the other day. Liberty sat on the newsdesk and took a keen interest in how her father set about editing the paper.

Canny Standard journalists agreed with everything Liberty had to say as she is a big influence on Osborne. At the age of 10, she successfully lobbied him to put the writer Jane Austen’s head on the new £10 note by marching around the family home wearing a suffragette outfit. Joy Morrissey, the Tory contesting the London seat of Ealing Central & Acton and unmasked by the Heckler as the star of the saucy film Geek Mythology, is not the only candidate to appear in a film. Michael Gove – standing again as Rupert Murdoch’s representative in the Commons – appeared as a chaplain in a comedy called A Feast At Midnight, left. John McDonnell had a blink-andyou-miss it cameo as a Labour MP in the 1990 Ken Loach thriller Hidden Agenda. And they say politics is showbusiness for ugly people... Sir Greg Knight’s election video has gone viral, like a bad cold. It shows the Tory candidate for East Yorkshire walking stiffly into a room, reciting all the usual party slogans – including even “strong and stable” – and then unleashing on the unsuspecting viewer a grating song that finishes with “You get it right – vote for Greg Knight.” Children have a special way of seeing things. Research conducted by the forthcoming KidsKnowBest website shows a lot of them see Jeremy Corbyn as Luke Skywalker. A lot less flatteringly, they see Theresa May as “Donald Trump’s friend.” This is a significant image problem for May to have with the voters of tomorrow.