Watson’s Wimbledon backspin

IN THE latest register of MPs’ interests, Labour’s Deputy Leader Tom Watson initially put down the value of two Wimbledon tickets and lunch at £302. A few days later it was updated to a whacking £3,790. I know Watson is a heavyweight in more ways than one, but that must have been some lunch. IF OCTOGENARIAN peers are ejected next year under plans unveiled in the Mail to reform the House of Lords, few tears will be shed for Lord Heseltine, 84, the former Tory deputy PM. In the past 12 months, Hezza took part in only 3 per cent of the votes. No doubt when he did turn up it was to vote against the Tories. London’s Labour Mayor sadiq Khan has not been granted a speaking role at next week’s Labour Party conference at Brighton. Comrade Corbyn’s team was clearly irritated when Khan — not the Labour leader — won GQ Politician of the Year. TUCkED away in the Lib Dem conference agenda is the policy motion ‘Learning to communicate in English’. They’ve been talking Double Dutch for years. THE Labour MP for Ashtonunder-Lyne, Angela Rayner, is hailed by many on the Left as a future leader of her party. But the shadow education secretary says that she has no wish to take over from Comrade Corbyn. ‘I couldn’t think of anything more frightening than standing up and having that pressure,’ she tells the monthly general interest magazine Prospect. ‘I was feral as a teenager,’ she adds. ‘I didn’t think I’d get selected as an MP, so the thought of being leader of the Labour Party and one day Prime Minister is the stuff that happens in books, to other people.’ That’s not unlike what Comrade Corbyn used to say — and now he thinks he’s PM-in-waiting.