‘Lady Phyll’, the favourite and Corbynista choice to be the next MP for Lewisham East, has pulled out citing “an unexpected family situation”. On Friday Guido revealed how she had compared Israel to the Nazis. Labour having real problems with their selection in Lewisham…

The frontrunner to be Labour’s candidate in Lewisham East compared the Israel-Palestine conflict to the Holocaust, Guido can reveal. Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, who is the bookies’ favourite and is being backed by Team Corbyn, equated Israel to the Nazis and claimed Palestinians were victims of a “genocide”. She wrote on her Facebook page on Holocaust Memorial Day last year: “Today is the day when we remember all those affected by the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur – I’m adding Palestinian to the list”. A very stupid comment, to say the least. Will the Corbynistas still stitch up the selection for her anyway?

Two more names to add to our Lewisham East runners and riders:

• Phyll Opoku-Gyimah: The new bookies’ favourite. Phyll is the founder of UK Black Pride who once turned down an MBE because she had to “stand by my principles and values” as a “working class girl” and “out black African lesbian”. Now being backed by the more senior members of Corbyn’s team after things didn’t go so well for Sakina Sheikh, who younger Corbynistas were backing.
• Joe Dromey: Red Prince Joe, son of Jack and Harriet Harman, has announced he is running as an anti-Brexit candidate. There is talk Labour HQ wants to impose an all women shortlist in Lewisham East. What is it with male Dromeys and running on all women shortlists?

The Corbynistas look to have properly stitched up the selection, centrally imposing candidates and ramming it all through this weekend. “Lady Phyll” is the candidate to beat…