Jeremy Corbyn has won the most elusive of political victories: to be photographed looking comfortable alongside school children.
The Conservatives may be enjoying a huge poll lead over Labour but memories of Theresa May’s visit to a Cumbria primary school earlier this year remain fresh.
On Thursday, Corbyn and his Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner had a cooking lesson at a children’s holiday club at The Leyland Project in Lancashire. The project uses cookery as an activity for families who rely on free school meals in term time and struggle to cover the extra cost of feeding their kids in the holidays.”
They were promoting Labour’s policy to give state primary school children free meals by introducing VAT on private school fees.
As photographers waited for a slip-up, Corbyn helped the children make cakes.
On the evidence of the pictures, the slip-up didn’t come.
Corbyn even regaled the kids with stories of making his jam thanks to his allotment in Islington.
He also received a gift from one of the children.