House Magazine’s Select Committee Guide 2022 is a great coffee table read, though not if you happen to be Adam Holloway, the honourable member for Gravesham. Co-conspirators who flick to page 37 to read up on the Home Affairs Committee will notice Adam Holloway looks a bit different nowadays – in fact, he looks a lot like former MP and convicted sexual predator, Charlie Elphicke…
Elphicke was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault in 2019, and served a year in prison for his crimes. The image used in the magazine even appears to have come from Elphicke’s court hearing…
A spokesperson for The House tells Guido:
“We regret the production error in the print version of our select committee guide and have apologised to Mr Holloway.”
That’ll be a costly reprint…
Times Red Box reports Labour colleagues have dubbed Kate Osamor “Osamoron” after she posted a late night “clarification” to her interview with House magazine in which they accurately quoted her saying “intervention must take place” and “he needs to be removed” if Assad is proven to be behind the Douma gas attack. She went on to say Corbyn would be “better off” leaving statements on foreign policy to other Labour spokesmen and that he did not “need to speak” as it would not go well for him because of the “relationship he’s had with those countries”. Harsh but fair from a Shadow Cabinet minister…
In an 11pm attempt to save her job, Osamor tweeted that her quotes had been “used selectively”. This is patently untrue, if you read the interview it is clear she said all those words in context. She might be critical of Corbyn but she is happy to use his tactic of complaining when the media quote his words. Owen Smith will be wondering how Osamor and Barry Gardiner have kept their jobs this week…
