Corbyn will fail as he doesn't watch Mrs Brown | Labour MP's warning © BBC

Corbyn will fail as he doesn't watch Mrs Brown

Labour MP's warning

Labour is doomed to electoral failure because its leaders don’t connect with fans Mrs Brown’s Boys.

That’s the suggestion of MP Stella Creasy, who said her party’s ‘intelligentsia’ were out of touch with the normal people who watched Brendan O’Carroll’s top-rated sitcom.

Her comments came after she asked a meeting of the left-wing Fabian Society yesterday whether anyone in the audience watched Mrs Brown’s Boys.

When her question was greeted by laughter, she pointed out that the BBC One comedy had attracted more than eight million viewers at Christmas.

‘Yet the intelligentsia are horrified,’ the Labour moderate said. ‘They don’t get the joke.’

A spokesman for Mr Corbyn declined to reveal whether he watched Mrs Brown’s Boys.

Published: 15 Jan 2017

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