After a tough day yesterday for Corbyn’s team following his chaotic reshuffle, there was only one thing left to do to save the day: send Diane Abbott onto the airwaves. The gaffe-prone shadow international development secretary appeared on Newsnight to wax lyrical about the state of Corbyn’s slightly reshuffled Shadow Cabinet.
When put to her that things might not be quite so rosy given that three shadow ministers had resigned in protest of Corbyn’s reshuffle, she said it wasn’t really a great loss given that they all use to be special advisers who lacked real life experience:
In case you missed: @hackneyabbott on the sacked "special advisers" from the frontbench https://t.co/xkVzH3WrUh
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) January 7, 2016
Alas the MPs she was referring too were not going to take the comments lying down. Jonathan Reynolds took the bold step of pointing out that he has never actually been a special adviser:
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