WHO’S WHO IN LEADER’S GAGGLE OF BESOTTED GROUPIES
1 BONNIE CRAVEN
The mother of four is a 42-yearold teacher from Sutton and Cheam. A lifelong Labour supporter, her Facebook page proudly proclaims ‘I’m with Corbyn’, as she says he stands up for equality, women and mothers. ‘He’s got our backs and we’ve got his,’ she said yesterday.
2 MARSHA-JANE THOMPSON
Sporting aquamarine hair, nose rivets and a tattoo, she is one of embattled Mr Corbyn’s key lieutenants and has a conviction for election fraud.
Miss Thompson, 35, confessed to registering more than 100 fake voters in the London borough of Newham, where she was a housing officer.
Appearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court in 2006, she admitted filling out and submitting multiple voter registration forms herself, including forging signatures. She was sentenced to 100 hours of community work.
Miss Thompson was also a supporter of Lutfur Rahman, the corrupt Tower Hamlets mayor who was thrown out of office last year for rigging an election.
Now she is social media manager for Momentum, and the hard-Left Morning Star newspaper has described her as a ‘key member’ of Corbyn’s campaign team.
Momentum says her conviction is spent, was over a decade ago and something she ‘has always been open about’.
3 ROHI MALIK
The teenager is one of Mr Corbyn’s constituents, and introduced him at the Labour conference last year.
The 19-year-old, who studies medicine at Manchester University, said it had been ‘amazing to be involved in such an inspiring campaign for such an honest and principled politician’. She believes he is the only ‘clear alternative’ to the Conservative Party.
4 LAURA ALVAREZ
Mr Corbyn’s wife, she does not appear to enjoy the political spotlight and was happy to allow the other women to flank her husband.
The pair met at a Latin American support group meeting and she is his third wife. The 47-year-old Mexican married Mr Corbyn three years ago and runs a small fair trade company importing coffee.
There was some embarrassment last year when it was reported she was selling imported £10-a-jar coffee which was grown by Mexican farmers paid less than the country’s minimum wage.
They live together in a £650,000 property in Islington, North London.
5 FREYA CANN
Another member of Mr Corbyn’s teenage fan club, the 18-year-old from Islington is planning to study politics at Leeds University. She said Mr Corbyn was a ‘breath of fresh air’, telling the Daily Telegraph: ‘I come from a strong Labour family. I think he’s a very outward looking politician and he’s always consulting and getting other people’s views on policies.’
6 FADUMA HASSAN
The Momentum member, a teacher from Brent, is a staunch Corbyn backer who has urged the party to abandon the contest to replace him.
Miss Hassan, a member of the party’s National Executive Committee, wrote a letter to The Independent two weeks ago in which she said: ‘The contest in the Labour Party is over, and the movement in support of Corbyn’s ideas has grown dramatically. Now we must all focus on helping him become Prime Minister.’
Her Facebook page shows a poster featuring her and other young Corbynites with the slogan: ‘We went from Jez We Can, to Jez We Did and now… Jez we will again.’