Bower labours to find dirt on Corbyn in dull hatchet job

Tom Bower consistently puts the worst possible interpretation on Corbyn’s actions, adding a dollop of moral outrage for good measure

Jeremy Corbyn: Tom Bower’s biography of the British Labour leader comes across as sneering and lacking in balance Pic: Getty

Biography: Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power, By Tom Bower, William Collins, €17.25

Last November, Theresa May publicly thanked her husband Philip for making them a delicious dinner of beans on toast. Jeremy Corbyn would apparently regard even this as too much fuss. According to Tom Bower’s relentlessly hostile biography, the British Labour leader has often been known to come home, “happily open a can of beans, swallow them cold and declare ...