WIN OR LOSE THE PLOT
BESIEGED Jeremy Corbyn badly needs Labour to hold Peterborough in Thursday’s difficult by-election or it will be tin hat time.
The seat was won by a slender 607 votes from the Conservatives two years ago by an MP who was then ousted after being jailed.
Lose it and the European third place drama will quickly escalate into a Westminster crisis.
Bookies make twister Nigel Farage’s slippery Brexit Party favourites as the Tories collapse and Lib Dem-Green revivals hurt Labour.
By picking a Thatcherite former Tory multi-millionaire to stand in the Cambridgeshire city, Nigel Farage has shone a light on the hard-right politics of a “Newkip” he deliberately hides.
Yet Labour has been weakened by infighting and Corbyn wanting a soft Brexit rather than rallying support to keep Britain in Europe with a fresh referendum.
Until Corbyn embraces Europe I fear his policies to build a better Britain will be overshadowed.
As for Farage, the Thatcherite con artist will be unbearable. THIRTEEN Tories vying
» to be PM is egotistical May-hem but at least Penrith’s Rory Stewart sounds almost human. Opium smoker “Florence of Belgravia” could do us a favour by demanding Britain stop jailing people for using the drug he took in Iran. Either that or lock himself up and reduce the field to a dirty dozen. HOW heartbreaking to read young
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Liverpool Labour rising star Dan Carden recall when he was at school the Tories’ grotesque Section 28 law stopped teachers officially helping gay pupils like him. Con MP Esther McVey demanding parents be able to withdraw children from same-sex relationship lessons and Muslim zealots accused of manipulating antiLGBT feeling at a Brum primary are two sides of a reminted intolerance coin.