Corbyn says spin doctors have BANNED him from wearing shambolic tracksuit in public (but he still puts it on at home)

  • Jeremy Corbyn says he has been told not to wear shambolic tracksuit in public
  • Labour leader used to don tatty grey outfit to go to the shops near his home
  • Revealed in CBBC interview that he still wears the tracksuit every night at home 

Jeremy Corbyn, pictured in November 2015, said he had been told to stop wearing his tracksuit in public

Jeremy Corbyn, pictured in November 2015, said he had been told to stop wearing his tracksuit in public

Jeremy Corbyn's advisers have banned him from wearing a tracksuit in public as they attempt to smarten his image, he revealed last night.

The Labour leader said he had been told to stop going out in the sportswear after he was widely mocked when he was pictured venturing out in his constituency dressed in a grey tracksuit.

But he told how he defiantly still wears it every night behind closed doors at home.

In an interview with 13-year-old Nikki Lilly for CBBC, he said: 'When I go home every night, I put my tracksuit on.

'I feel very comfortable in it. You can do anything in a track suit. You can go out. It's great.

'Although people round here make me stop going out in it. They say, 'if you are the leader of the Labour Party, you can't go out in your trackie'.'

Mr Corbyn revealed how at school he refused to become a prefect because it involved issuing corporal punishment, which he did not believe in, and disappointed his family by underperforming at maths.

He said: 'I was pretty bad at maths even though my mum was a maths teacher, which was embarrassing for her.

'We had a French Teacher...if you didn't write in very small writing in your exercise book between the lines as well as on the lines, he got very angry...he would come up behind you, look over your shoulder and see if you had written the whole thing. If you hadn't, he'd go thwack on your face.

'It was a very odd way of trying to make people learn foreign languages.

'My secondary school was actually very strict, and it had a regime I didn't like. It had lots of physical punishment - caning and things like that.

'And the older boys were allowed to punish the younger boys, but I said I was not prepared to beat any younger boys so I wasn't made a prefect - my choice.'

Mr Corbyn also shared how he felt inadequate as a teenager. Asked what he was like in his younger years, he said: 'was like most teenagers - a bit uncertain, a bit confused and I always felt everyone else is having fun somewhere else, everyone else is doing really well but not me.'

In February 2016, David Cameron famously told Mr Corbyn to smarten up his appearance during Prime Minister's Questions.

The then prime minister said his mother would advise the Labour leader to 'put on a proper suit, do up your tie and sing the national anthem'.

CBBC presenter and vlogger Nikki Lilly interviewed Mr Corbyn for her series on the channel

CBBC presenter and vlogger Nikki Lilly interviewed Mr Corbyn for her series on the channel

 

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