“THE only newspaper allowed in our house is the Morning Star,” Laura Alvarez said to cheers at the Matchwomen’s Festival in Bow, east London, on Saturday night.

Jeremy Corbyn’s wife was speaking in the first joint interview the pair have ever given, and described how hostile media began spreading dirt on her as early as 2015, the year Mr Corbyn won the Labour leadership, with articles lying about her coffee import business as a means to attack him.

“It’s important we build our own narrative, because I don’t trust the mainstream media. I have good friends and I ask, why do you read the Guardian? And they say, ‘it has some good articles.’ But for every good article there are 10 nasty articles that misrepresent everything!”