Diane Abbott on those who have left the front bench: "They're all special advisers."https://t.co/vAiTfVWTMJ

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) January 6, 2016

Diane Abbott smeared the departed members of the frontbench on Newsnight as “all former Special Advisers”:

“When you look at some of the other people, when you look at Jonathan Reynolds, if you look at Mr Dugher, if you look at some of these others, what do they have in common? They’re all former Special Advisers…”

Reynolds, who wasn’t a SpAd, hits back:

https://twitter.com/jreynoldsMP/status/684872565349838848

https://twitter.com/jreynoldsMP/status/684872784133099520

Anyway, not like Ken Livingstone press officer turned councillor, turned candidate, turned MP, turned shadow minister Diane Abbott is a career politician…