Today’s PMQs ought to have been a walk in the park for Jeremy Corbyn following days of in-fighting and rebellion in the Conservative party. However, a secret document changed all that, with the Times today publishing a spreadsheet which categorises all the Labour MPs in terms of their loyalty — or lack there of — towards Corbyn.
John Woodcock — who is on the ‘hostile’ list — was left unimpressed when Cameron was able to ridicule the party over the list at PMQs:
‘Mr Speaker there are five categories. We’ve got “core support” — I think you can include me in that lot. We’ve got “core plus”, the Chief Whip’s being a bit quiet because she’s in “hostile”. Mr Speaker, I thought I had problems’
Although Corbyn attempted to respond by critcising Cameron over the Budget shambles, Woodcock was unimpressed. The Labour MP tweeted his own hostile verdict:
The MP now appears to have had second thoughts about his hostile behaviour and deleted the tweet. Is he hoping to be moved to ‘core plus’?
Update: John Prescott seems unimpressed with Woodcock’s lack of discretion. He has accused the Labour MP of trying to brief a journalist. However, Woodcock insists he was simply attempting to confide in a colleague (presumably a colleague who is also on the ‘hostile list’). In Woodcock’s defence, Mr S hears that he recently broke his phone — losing a lot of his contacts — so has had to use Twitter to connect with colleagues.
@johnprescott I was sharing frustration with a colleague, ineptly. U might think all fine, we despairing at way Tories getting away with it
— Lord Walney (@LordWalney) March 23, 2016
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