ANDREW PIERCE: Leftie peer’s been lording it for years 

When former trade union firebrand Tony Woodley rejected the offer of a peerage in August, it seemed like a fitting act of solidarity with the proletariat by a Left-winger who had once been a Vauxhall Motors shop steward. But within weeks the former General Secretary of Unite had had a change of heart and took … Read more

ANDREW PIERCE: Leftie Richard Burgon’s secret life as a Tony Blair fan 

Former trade union lawyer Richard Burgon is the Jeremy Corbyn Continuity candidate to be Labour’s deputy leader.  Yet the Shadow Justice Secretary has kept an embarrassing secret from his Corbynite supporters — he was a Tony Blair fan as a student. In an interview with student newspaper Varsity in 2002, when he was chairman of … Read more