Royal Wedding: Jeremy Corbyn Tweets Congratulations... To Labour's New Lewisham East Candidate

As of 3pm on Saturday, Jeremy Corbyn had yet to issue his congratulations to the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

As Saturday’s Royal wedding drew to a close, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted his congratulations... to the party’s newly-selected candidate for the Lewisham East by-election.

Despite 24 million people watching the ceremony around the UK and the world, Corbyn focused his attention instead on welcoming the appointment of “moderate” Janet Daby in the upcoming east London contest.

Writing on Twitter just as the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, were on their carriage ride around Windsor, Corbyn championed Daby’s track record.

Congratulations @JanetDaby who has been selected as Labour's candidate in Lewisham East.

She has done an excellent job as Deputy Mayor and I know she will be a strong voice for the people of Lewisham East in Parliament. I look forward to campaigning with her in the by-election.
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) May 19, 2018

Corbyn’s spokesperson this week confirmed the Islington North MP would not watch the Royal wedding live on Saturday. “Catch up is available,” the spokesperson told reporters.

On Saturday, Corbyn was promoting his appearance at Labour’s State of the Economy conference.

Today I spoke at @UKLabour’s #StateOfTheEconomy conference, bringing people together to discuss and develop our plans to transform our economy so it works for the many, not the few. pic.twitter.com/7ooPkpOGtL
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) May 19, 2018

And he posted several messages about mental health, worker’s rights and the NHS.

What makes these discussions important is our determination to make people’s lives better.

And as it's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, I talked about how a perfect storm of economic pressures is feeding a mental health epidemic that costs our economy almost £100 billion a year.
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) May 19, 2018

Too many workers endure stress in toxic work environments or face job insecurity, with many more worried about debts, rent or mortgages, not knowing how they will make ends meet at the end of the month.
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) May 19, 2018

Our NHS mental health services must get the funding they so desperately need.

And we must continue to talk about mental health to break the stigma and tackle its causes by transforming the economy so it genuinely includes everybody and excludes nobody. #MHAW
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) May 19, 2018

It’s safe to say the absence of a Royal message endeared Corbyn to republicans.