Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Nye Bevan and Jennie Lee, Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper…Jeremy Corbyn and Laura Alvarez? The wife of the former Labour leader was considered for the Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance slate in the party’s NEC constituency contests, I’m told. She and Seumas Milne’s Bollinger Bolshevik deputy, James Schneider, didn’t make a six-strong list agreed by an alphabet soup of factions including Momentum and the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy. Alvarez would have enlivened dreary NEC meetings with her molten desire to keep burning bright a Corbyn flame.
It’s going from bad to worse for Gavin Williamson, who is flirting with cabinet permanent exclusion. My snout said that Rishi Sunak has snatched for his autumn Budget a plan for mid-life apprenticeships that the Education Secretary wanted to unveil in the summer mini-Budget. An unhappily sidelined Williamson, 44, who may soon need retraining for a career change, isn’t concealing his vexation at his lunch money being stolen.
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