Shadow chancellor John McDonnell warned at the weekend that bullying had no part to play in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.

Addressing this year’s People’s Assembly Against Austerity’s national conference on Saturday, Mr McDonnell reminded all that “there’s no place for any of that” under Labour’s new “kinder politics.”

The Hayes and Harlington MP’s comments came after rightwingers shrieked about a supposed “New Year purge” of warmongers from the shadow cabinet.