Moderate Labour candidates spent yesterday afternoon distancing themselves from Corbyn’s back-to-the-seventies manifesto, though one in particular has reason for concern. Mike Katz, Labour’s candidate in Hendon, says on his campaign website that “my professional specialism has been transport“. What he doesn’t say is that specialism involves being the Head of Policy for private rail company FirstGroup. Katz’s company operates Great Western Railway, the TransPennine express and will begin operating the South Western franchise in August through its 70% shareholding in South Western Railway. If Corbyn wins and Katz doesn’t, Jez will be nationalising him…

Mike Katz, the speaker from the Jewish Labour Movement, was sporadically heckled throughout his speech to the conference hall this morning. Katz had spoken about how Jews felt let down by Labour. There were heckles from at least four audience members, this one on camera:

The image above tells the story of the last year…