The cross-dressing comedian and charity fundraiser Eddie Izzard is to take his seat on Labour’s ruling national executive committee (NEC) immediately, following the resignation of Christine Shawcroft last night. Izzard — whose political credentials and ambitions with the Labour Party stretch back to the Cool Britannia era of Tony Blair — gains the place as a result of being the best-placed loser in January’s election for three NEC places. He stood on a soft-left ticket. Izzard appeared on the BBC’s Question Time during the EU referendum campaign wearing pink lipstick, nail varnish and a matching beret and argued about immigration with Nigel Farage. He has donated to Labour and appeared in its party political broadcasts, as well as expressing an interest in standing as a…

Source: The Times March 31, 2018 23:15 UTC