With the Brexit psychodrama hogging all the headlines last week, Jeremy Corbyn seized his chance to slip out the Labour Party’s annual report. (Only last week Dame Louise Ellman, a Jewish Labour MP, quit the party after 55 years in protest at Corbyn’s inaction on this issue.) John Simpson, the BBC’s veteran world affairs editor, is escaping the Brexit miasma by flying to the Middle East. No word yet on how Jeremy Corbyn, who notoriously referred to Hamas and Hezbollah as ‘friends’, plans to get past the guards. Quote of the week: Brexiteer Tory MP Andrew Bridgen, on Boris’s deal: ‘It looks like Brexit, it smells like Brexit.

Source: Daily Mail October 20, 2019 23:53 UTC