11 facts to prove Jeremy Corbyn is more of a high society type than you’d think
Jeremy Corbyn has a Guardian journalist as his head of communications. So far, so left-wing. But hang on a minute - his pal Seumas Milne went to Winchester, then read PPE at Oxford. And he's called Seumas, for goodness’ sake. Hardly the kind of name you hear yelled down t’mines. Come to that, nor is Jeremy. So, just how high society is the leader of the Labour Party? Read these 11 facts, then decide.
His brother is called Piers who was once a test engineer on Concorde.
He has a son called Seb.
And another one called Ben, who looks just like Zac Goldsmith.
He grew up in a seven-bedroom manor house in Shropshire called Yew Tree Manor which was once a hotel, with its own paddock.
On the Duke of Sutherland's estate.
He once built a sundial in one of the outbuildings and erected it in the garden.
He gets married all the time.
To women with names like Jane and Claudia.
Claudia's father was a very important Spanish diplomat.
And his latest wife Laura Alvarez runs a fair-trade coffee empire.
From Islington. Need we say more?