‘There’s a mole at the heart of Jezza’s team feeding secrets to the PM,’ claims chief spin doctor
Seumas Milne was trying to defend Corbyn's notoriously poor PMQs performances
THERE is a mole at the heart of Jeremy Corbyn’s inner circle passing information to David Cameron, the Labour leader’s chief spin doctor has claimed.
Paranoid Seumas Milne told how one of the hard-left leader’s top team is leaking Mr Corbyn’s line of questioning ahead of Prime Minister’s Question time about a “third of the time”.
Defending the Labour leader’s notoriously poor performances at the weekly showdown, Mr Milne said the well-placed mole’s inside information gave the PM a distinct advantage at the dispatch box.
Asked on Vice News fly-on-the-wall documentary , if Mr Cameron had prior warning about Mr Corbyn’s six questions, Mr Milne said: “This time they did because it leaked.
“It leaked from that meeting. It’s very annoying because it only happens about a third of the time but it obviously gives them a little bit of extra time.
“Whenever there is a leak it gives them that advantage. It gives them the advantage on TV as well.”
Labour sources later claimed the former Guardian journalist was not accusing other members of Mr Corbyn’s team, but that information was leaked to journalists when staff from Labour headquarters attended preparations for PMQs.
A senior Labour source said there will not be a hunt for the "mole".
One Labour MP told The Sun that the documentary exposes that "we’ve got a bunch of crackpots and conspiracy theorists running the Labour Party".
The accusations expose the tensions within the parliamentary Labour party, with many MPs openly critical of their leader.
Mr Milne was seen as an odd choice when he was appointed the Labour leader’s chief spin doctor.
He has been accused of being an apologist for Lee Rigby’s killers and said the US was “reaping a dragons’ teeth harvest they themselves sowed” following the 9/11 attacks.
Since he arrived in the leader of the opposition’s office he has delivered several bizarre briefings to Westminster’s lobby journalists, including advanced warning of a “revenge reshuffle” which descended into farce and resulted in minor movements within the shadow cabinet.