The Labour leader’s years of indulging the IRA, who murdered the Duke of Edinburgh’s uncle, should not be forgotten.
Nick Timothy is from this Birmingham seat, which could go blue if anyone can be bothered to vote.
Plus: May needs Johnson. My election predictions. Strange selection decisions. And: why I decided not to put my name forward for the seat in which I grew up.
The Labour leader pursues his traditional tactic of reading out a question from a member of the public.
In this, the tightest blue-yellow, many more people mentioned, with approbation, the Liberal Democrat candidate than referred to the EU.
He also won’t confirm that as Prime Minister he would authorise an air strike to kill the leader of ISIS.
The more likely Tory voters see headline figures like these, the less likely they are to turn out to vote.
These are the threats that keep Labour MPs up at night.
Plus: Where I was when the poll was announced. What I will be doing during the campaign. And: the temptation to seek to stand as a candidate tugs at my sleeve…
His great achievement two years ago was to sever the head off the Liberal Democrat snake – and most of the body too. Now he must defang it again.
Our Executive Editor argues he will be “propped up on his bicycle, like the El Cid of the Labour Party”.
Fourteen of the 25 Labour MPs with the smallest majorities either voted against or didn’t vote at all.
The Labour leader delivers his pitch, but Mark Francois asks: “Is that it?”
It was not an edifying spectacle, but it was convincing in its way.
They are willing to support the Corbyn leadership even though they expect it to break a similar tuition fees promise to that broken by Nick Clegg.