George Osborne takes a dig at Jeremy Corbyn at Tory conference

Although Cabinet Ministers are said to be on strict instructions to refrain from insulting or mocking Jeremy Corbyn in their conference speeches, the Chancellor of the Exchequer couldn’t resist taking a dig at the Labour leader on Monday night.

As Corbyn was speaking to a packed crowd of protesters across town, Osborne found room in his speech at the Enterprise Forum Business Reception to make a joke at the expense of the Labour leader over his appearance at the fringe protest event. At first, Osborne appeared to compliment Labour in his speech, praising the party for working out that they were not pro-business enough in the last election:

‘What was of course interesting about the result is that the Labour party very correctly and very quickly identified as one of their biggest problems that they hadn’t been very pro-business and they hadn’t been very pro-enterprise and that had been a big mistake.’