Stella won’t be tarred with the toff brush

STELLA Creasy has let her politics do the talking since becoming Labour MP for Walthamstow in 2010, but detractors have recently been trying to tar her as a toff.

No such nonsense from Stella’s mother Corinna, a former headteacher. She was interviewed with her daughter in The Sunday Times this weekend and got straight to the point. “My parents came from an aristocratic background,” Corinna explained, “so it never occurred to them to be anything else but Tory. At college I realised how privileged I was so, partly out of a sense of guilt, I joined the Labour Party.” That puts the record straight.