Might do a thread on why the Corbyn-was-sulking-and-wouldn’t-get-on-the-diesel-bus story says more about those he was surrounded by than it does about him. It’s not a story about a stroppy leader, it’s a story about a team full of people who couldn’t do the basics of their job

It’s fascinating how an administration so predicated on blind loyalty to the leader - even when it got right down into the mud to defend terrible things - has seemingly changed so dramatically in the interviews for this book.

And also, how much was inadvertently given away about the outwith-the-rulebook complaints processes, while they bid to save the reputation of John McDonnell. The book says he went straight to Karie Murphy to get Hodge complaint stopped -

- Why is LOTO Chief of Staff the assumed go-to for membership disciplinary procedures? But then of course the people in the book say the response was that this decision was not in the hands of Karie Murphy, but Jennie Formby. The general secretary. Still not the complaints team.

Not this membership complaint should ever have been pursued against Margaret Hodge in my view, but it shows you it was a political decision not a rulebook one