Today Jeremy Corbyn has had not one, not two, not three but ten Shadow Cabinet members hand in their resignation. What’s more, with a growing number of Labour MPs confessing to having lost faith in the Labour leader over the EU referendum result, he now faces a difficult task trying to fill the vacancies.
Happily, one man has nobly volunteered his services. Step forward Simon Danczuk:
Have phoned Jeremy & said if required, I'm prepared to serve. I am prepared to make that sacrifice for the Labour Party.
— Simon Danczuk (@SimonDanczuk) June 26, 2016
Yes, the MP — who has proved to be a thorn in Corbyn’s side ever since he was elected as Labour leader — has declared that he is ‘prepared to serve’. It’s unlikely Corbyn will be too eager to take him up on the offer given that Danczuk regularly writes articles for the tabloids in which he documents their private conversations. What’s more, Danczuk is currently suspended from the Labour party over sexually explicit text messages he sent to a 17-year-old. Well,
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