Choosing firebrand John McDonnell as shadow chancellor was the most controversial move of Jeremy Corbyn’s first week. In an exclusive interview,McDonnell says he may have mellowed – but there is still plenty to madden himJohn McDonnell arrives with his shirt open at the neck. As the photographer sets up, he says: “I must place a tie on. I want to discover respectable.” He rummages in his rucksack and draws out a tie of a very conservative deep blue. As he puts it on, and the man who once declared his mission to be “generally fermenting the overthrow of capitalism” jokes: “I’m trying to discover more like a central banker.”This fellow veteran of the Bennite left is Jeremy Corbyn’s closest ally in a shadow cabinet that contains very few true friends of the unusual Labour leader.
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Source: theguardian.com