Posh pop star’s tweet campaign against Nandy
SHE’S the privately educated, cello-playing singer with Clean Bandit, the chart-toppers called Britain’s poshest pop band.
Now Grace Chatto has launched a social media campaign against Lisa Nandy in a bid to drive the tough-talking Northerner out of Labour’s leadership race.
Corbynite Miss Chatto, 34, and her Clean Bandit bandmates – brothers Jack and Luke Patterson – have used the band’s Twitter account, which has 421,000 followers, to attack Ms Nandy.
‘I would’ve thought Lisa Nandy would have read the manifesto before standing as a candidate for Labour leader,’ one Clean Bandit tweet read, after she queried how Labour could fund the abolition of tuition fees on TV. ‘So disappointing and sad that she is running,’ said another.
Miss Chatto, educated at the £8,000-a-term Westminster School, has enjoyed a very different life to Ms Nandy. The Russianspeaking musician formed Clean Bandit at Jesus College, Cambridge. Manchester-born Ms Nandy, the mixed-race daughter of an Indian Marxist academic father and a social worker mother, lived with her mum after her parents split up, aged seven. Entering Parliament in 2010, she later quit Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet because she feared he would lead the party to defeat.
Miss Chatto described Mr Corbyn’s 2017 General Election defeat as a ‘huge triumph’ and after the 2019 wipeout tweeted: ‘I don’t want to hear ANYONE saying it was the fault of the Labour leader.’ Last week
Clean Bandit tweeted: ‘Rebecca Long Bailey is the only choice.’
Fans of Ms Nandy say it is ironic that Miss Chatto, who says it is vital Labour returns to government, should be hostile to the candidate who is most determined to reconnect the party with the core voters it lost under a hard-Left leadership.