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14 September 2015

The Telegraph calls Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow chancellor a “nutjob”

Unfriendly fire.

By Media Mole

The Daily Telegraph‘s website did not take kindly to Jeremy Corbyn’s appointment of his friend John McDonnell as shadow chancellor, describing him as a “nutjob”.


 

Here’s the headline:


But the headline didn’t stay that way for long. Following complaints about such an offensive label, it was tweaked to give McDonnell a slightly more flattering description, as “a man from cloud cuckoo land”.  

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