After

veteran Labour MP Dame Margaret Beckett became the chairman of the party’s NeC last week, a dwindling band of Jeremy Corbyn supporters dramatically ‘walked out’ of the digital meeting. Yes, it was all rather petty. But it did at least prove that there are some benefits to holding online meetings. In the 1980s, when Neil Kinnock was Labour leader, an angry eric heffer stormed out of an NeC meeting and slammed the door behind him. three minutes later, he sheepishly emerged. It was the bathroom.