Guido hears Stephen Kinnock’s 24 hour “hunger strike” to protest against FPTP has gone down like a bucket of sick with female Labour MPs. Kinnock has chosen to carry out the day’s hunger strike – which is not a hunger strike, it is how George Osborne says slim – on the centenary of women getting the vote. Labour sources say this attempt to take attention away from today’s focus for his own personal crusade has not impressed his female colleagues. One says: “He seems to think getting Labour votes to be worth a bit more in Dorset is more important than overturning centuries of structural oppression of women”. It has been noted that Kinnock’s seat was set to disappear in the last two boundary reviews. Stephen could have done with Mrs Kinnock being around to tell him his idea wasn’t the best…

Stephen Kinnock raged against private schools then sent his daughter to a £29,000-a-year fee-paying school in Wales, according to reports in the Danish press. In 2009, while his wife Helle Thorning-Schmidt was trying to become Prime Minister of Denmark, Kinnock gave an interview to the Borsen Pleasure newspaper in which he is quoted discussing his experience of private schools in Britain:

“I think it is wrong that you can buy your way into something which affects your life chances to such a large extent as education does. Most of the students had gone to the same schools around the country. It might be Eton or Harrow, and it made me very indignant. It still makes me extremely angry that more than 50-60% of students at elite universities come from private schools where they have been in small classes with the best teachers and the best facilities.”

Kinnock and Thorning-Schmidt sent their daughter to a Danish private school, and then to the prestigious Atlantic College, another private school in the Vale of Glamorgan. Last week Kinnock was blasted for hiding his daughter’s private education from his selection panel – he had said it was “misleading” to say she had gone to a private school. They are so “wrong” and made him so “extremely angry” that he sent his daughter to two of them…

H/T @jacothenorth

Stephen Kinnock has confided in colleagues in the Commons tea room his belief that Ed Miliband is responsible for destroying his father’s efforts to root out militant entryists. Kinnock Jnr is said to have bemoaned:

“All the work my father did in twenty years, Ed Miliband undid in one weekend.”

A reference to the special conference back in March 2014, where Miliband approved measures to implement a one man, one vote system for future leadership elections. The catalyst for a chain of events which ultimately allowed Corbyn to become leader, and militant Trots to come in from the cold…

UPDATE: Kinnock junior gets in touch.

Labour Red Prince Stephen Kinnock may have just won the safe seat of Aberavon, but things haven’t panned out so well for his wife, Denmark’s first female prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt. She resigned as leader of her party this morning as she conceded defeat in yesterday’s election.

The Kinnocks had enjoyed a House Of Cards style pact during Helle’s time in power, with Stephen planning his life around his wife’s political ambitions, dutifully flying in to see her most weekends from his job at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Guido hears the Valleys are lovely this time of year…