Ahead of the Labour leadership results, Lucy Powell engaged in some gentle bitching online about Jeremy Corbyn’s lack of social interaction with her. Ed Miliband’s former deputy campaign chief told Miliband’s former political secretary Anna Yearley that she had never, ever met the man of the moment.
@AnnaYearley I have never, ever met or spoken to him. At PLP, in Chamber, in voting lobbies, tea rooms, library, anywhere …
— Lucy Powell MP (@LucyMPowell) August 18, 2015
This led Ukip’s Douglas Carswell to offer to make an introduction. Happily this gesture won’t be needed as the times are a’changin. Seemingly willing to overlook this slight, the newly-elected Corbyn has appointed Powell as Labour’s shadow education secretary.
However, given that blunder-ridden Powell was behind some of Labour’s worst election gaffes, she may not be the asset Corbyn requires at this testing time:
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