Labour leader and walking trainwreck Jeremy Corbyn went for after-work drinks with colleagues straight after calling for a ban on after-work drinks with colleagues.
Corbyn (pictured above down the pub) partook in the “unfair” pleasures of socializing with fellow campaigners in the basement of the Unison headquarters after he announced his women’s policy on Wednesday evening.
Wine, juice, olives and canapes were served to attendees, including close ally and shadow women’s minister Angela Rayner.
Just moments before the knees-up, Corbyn had railed against after-work drinking because it excludes mothers, who “obviously” have to skip such events to care for their children.
He said: “‘Early evening socialisation benefits men who don’t feel the need to be at home looking after their children, and it discriminates against women who will want to, obviously, look after the children that they have got.”
It is not clear whether the Labour leader himself was on the booze (he told The Mirror last year he drinks “very, very little”).
A Labour source present at the drinks told Heat Street about the gaffe – and said one member of the campaign even joked about “making an exception”.
However, as Guido Fawkes noted earlier today, carousing in the pub is a pretty familiar pursuit for the Islington North MP.
Indeed singing The Red Flag, surrounded by comrades in a drinking establishment, was among his first acts as Labour leader:
Long may it continue.