Grace Blakeley had gone viral again. Clips of the 30-year-old on the BBC’s Question Time were being posted and shared across social media, the most prominent showing Blakeley sparring with Lisa Nandy, Labour’s shadow minister for international development.
During the show, Blakeley upbraided the Labour leadership for welcoming Natalie Elphicke, the Tory defector, into the party, prompting Nandy to accuse the activist of being “a champion of a manifesto that was fundamentally dishonest”, a reference to Blakeley’s support for Jeremy Corbyn’s 2019 election campaign. The live audience, and most of the internet, decided that Blakeley had won the duel as Nandy herself had been elected on Corbyn’s manifesto promises.
It was hardly an isolated case. Blakeley, an author, commentator and self-identifying “democratic socialist”, has become
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