IS SHEFFIELD READY FOR EDDIE?

ComeDian eddie izzard has been on the campaign trail in Sheffield for the party’s South Yorkshire mayoral candidate oliver Coppard.

izzard, who prefers to be identified as ‘she’ and ‘her’ these days, is desperate to become an mP.

The Sheffield Central mP Paul blomfield is standing down at the next election so his 27,000 majority will be a tempting proposition Labour’s culture spokeswoman Lucy Powell last week secured an emergency Commons debate on the Government decision to privatise Channel 4. What she failed to declare at the start of the speech was the gifted trip to the baftas worth £2,140 that she received from the TV network. Perhaps she had forgotten? unlikely — the baftas were in March. Lib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper has been calling for any mPs linked to sexual harassment to be banned from Parliament for good.

That is, it seems, unless they’re Lib Dem. Lord Rennard, former Lib Dem chief executive, was suspended from the party in 2014 after four women activists made sexual harassment allegations against him — which he has denied — only to be reinstated seven months later. for izzard. but will the local Labour Party want serial loser izzard, who spent £36,000 — including £22,000 on transport and food — in a doomed nationwide campaign to stop brexit?

an avowed republican, izzard also campaigned unsuccessfully to change the ‘first past the post’ voting system to the alternative Vote (aV) in the 2011 referendum.