Corbynite MP’s supermarket trip riles his fellow Labour MPs

When Theresa May was snapped shopping in Waitrose last year, the Prime Minister was praised by the Telegraph for putting the politics of envy to one side by unapologetically shopping in the high-end supermarket. But is the real story that she was in a supermarket to begin with?

Mr S only asks after Richard Burgon — the Corbynista shadow justice secretary — took to social media on Friday to ‘reflect’ on a trip to his local supermarket, Seacroft Tesco. One of Burgon’s constituents was apparently rather surprised to see him in the shop. This led Burgon — who failed to visit the City during his time as shadow City minister — to conclude that what’s ‘genuinely wrong in politics’ is that people are ‘genuinely surprised’ when an MP goes out shopping locally:

Not an April fool.

His comments sent centrist Labour MPs into a spin over the weekend. There was much fun to be had, with Neil Coyle taking to Twitter to suggest that Burgon may have eaten all the pies on his trip to Seacroft Tesco.

What’s more, the PLP may have beaten Burgon at his own game — just the other week Andy Burnham told the Sunday Times that he does his weekly shop in… Morrisons.