Times Now Reports on The Labour Love Affair Setting Tongues Wagging
Yesterday, Guido brought to light the story of a senior Labour party figure who is alleged to have fathered a child with another woman while his wife was pregnant, according to allegations in Michael Ashcroft’s explosive book Red Queen. It’s a story that has set tongues wagging amongst lobby hacks – though some, who are in possession of the details, remain committed to a conspiracy of silence in expectation of an incoming Labour administration. Today Guido’s digging appears at the top of The Times diary column:
“It is rare for the desperate mud-slinging stage to come so early in an election campaign but Tory strategists were keen to draw attention to a paragraph buried in Michael Ashcroft’s recent biography of Angela Rayner. This wasn’t about the Labour deputy leader but an unnamed “senior party figure” who is alleged to have fathered a child out of wedlock while his wife was pregnant. The father’s name is not on the birth certificate, which led tongues to wag in the Red Lion. The story was looked into by journalists years ago and it came to nothing, but the Guido Fawkes blog is getting excited so naturally CCHQ think this could change things. Though they thought that 23 years ago when John Prescott thumped a voter and it only made Labour more popular.”
Stories that begin in diary columns have a way of ending up on the front pages…