All is not well on the backbenches, where old pals Jeremy Corbyn and George Galloway have become neighbours since the latter got re-elected to parliament after a long break.
Though they have a history as Left-wing allies, Galloway said there was a little froideur in the air of their reunion. “Quite often parliament is boring and you talk to the person next to you, sotto voce,” Galloway told Novara Media. When Corbyn first sat next to him, “he certainly made no effort to say, ‘I know I haven’t been in touch with you for the last 10 years, but how have you been?’ I’ve had three children in the last 10 years and he didn’t ask about them!” Nevertheless, they have had some “meaningful conversations” since.
