Labour Live: for the few, not the many

JezFest got off to a slow start but revolution was in the air – among Remainers challenging Corbyn’s Brexit stance

There was a moment, an hour before Jeremy Corbyn took to the stage at the Labour Live festival, when he might have believed himself a rock star. The Labour leader, in his short sleeved linen shirt and his pale chinos, checking his pockets for his speech and his reading specs, was shuffled through the crowd by three burly security guards, barking into walkie talkies. The crowd duly parted, before chasing him en masse the few yards across White Hart Lane Park as he was bustled backstage. Three teenage girls started scrolling, screaming, to see if they had caught the great man doing his trademark pop-eyed grin on their selfies.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2LYolCC