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31 May 2018

#PayUpChuka: Umunna humiliated in unpaid intern row

The Corbynsceptic MP has been shamed by the Labour leadership after advertising for an unpaid intern.

By Media Mole

Chuka Umunna – never at the top of the Labour leadership’s Christmas card list – has landed himself in hot water again.

This morning the Streatham MP became an unhappy poster boy for a practice usually associated with Dickensian villains on the Tory benches: unpaid internships.

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