Around the country Constituency Labour Parties are holding votes endorsing candidates and expressing confidence or no confidence in Corbyn. Last night in leafy Richmond the local Labour Party supported Owen Smith for Labour Party leader. Richmond CLP is of course Seumas Milne’s own Labour branch…

The wraith-like commissar for Corbyn did not show up last night, much to the disappointment of the Blairite counter-revolutionaries in Richmond. Could Seumas have swayed the result on his home patch? Not all those new £25 members will be for Corbyn…