Thundering good story: how The Times followed up iC’s exclusive
Inside Croydon’s latest exclusive podcast, Andrew Fisher’s interview with former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, has been followed-up widely on social media and by the national press.
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Corbyn’s treatment by the Labour Party under General Secretary David Evans, which saw him expelled after 50 years’ membership with a note suggesting he could contact the Samaritans, was the lead item in yesterday’s Diary column in The Times.
In our interview, Corbyn said that he was suspended by Labour in 2020 “very unfairly”.
When he sought to appeal against his exclusion from the parliamentary selection in Islington North, where he’d served as MP since 1983, he was rebuffed.
“The rules of natural justice no longer apply in the Labour Party,” Evans told Corbyn.
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“At that point, I decided to run as an independent, announced it and I was expelled by the Labour Party half an hour later in a letter which said at the end of it, if you’re upset about this, here’s the number for Samaritans.”
Times journalist Jack Blackburn is one of the many people who have signed up as iC subscribers or who have bought the podcast, and yesterday he reported how Corbyn had spoken about his forthcoming memoir, due to be published next year.
“But he may have already provided the most shocking revelation,” Blackburn noted, referring to the Samaritans referral.
“It can’t be said that Labour covered itself in glory,” The Times reports.
“So much for a kinder, gentler politics.”
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