As Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet reshuffle rattles on, it seems all that power is going to his head. The Labour leader has taken to Twitter to congratulate himself on appointing Diane Abbott and Emily Thornberry to the roles of shadow home secretary and shadow foreign secretary. Corbyn concludes that he is ‘proud’ that two of the three ‘great offices of state are, for the first time ever, filled by women’.
However, Mr S suspects that Corbyn would do well to rephrase. After all, a shadow position cannot be called a ‘great office of state’. Meanwhile the Conservatives continue to come out on top in the gender equality battle with a woman not only home secretary but also Prime Minister — the greatest office of state.
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