Two Corbyns descended on Downing Street today as Westminster was treated to a family reunion. The first, the better-known Jeremy, was there to hand in a petition with nurses and MPs calling for a 15 per cent pay rise for health workers. The second was older sibling Piers, the ever-eccentric disseminator of anti-vaccine materials, who earlier in the afternoon had shouted about his ‘unconditional support for my brother’ outside the nearby Labour party head office.
While Jeremy waited patiently to be let into the street on which he once nearly lived, Piers did his best to steal his brother’s thunder, shouting into a microphone ‘No more lockdowns! End the Covid con!’ The poor gun-toting Downing Street policemen could only watch through the black iron gates as the blue scrubs of protesting nurses mingled with the dishevelled critics of the government’s pandemic response.
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