While Corbyn faced an open revolt from MPs at tonight’s meeting of the PLP, over in Parliament Square the Corbyn fightback got underway as hundreds gathered for a Momentum rally in support of the Labour leader.
Not content with the drama at the meeting, Richard Burgon — Labour’s former blunder-prone shadow City minister who has just been promoted to Shadow Justice Secretary — left early to attend the rally. In his speech to the Corbynistas, he turned on his fellow MPs, accusing them of ‘behaving like bullies’ inside Parliament:
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‘I think everyone in the Parliamentary Labour party can hear you shouting tonight. Cos I’ll tell you this, I’ll be quite open about it: some people don’t like shouting in politics. I do, by the way.
There’s shouting going on out here, I’ll tell you this there’s shouting going on in the Labour party meeting too. So if they ever lecture you about bullying people for their political beliefs, I tell you — there’s people in there tonight behaving like bullies too and I tell you it’s not right.
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