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A COMMONS bust-up between Jeremy Corbyn and Robert Kilroy-Silk, then a Labour MP, made it into Margaret Thatcher’s press digest in 1985.
Among the articles for October 31 1985 deemed worthy of the PM’s attention, alongside a note about Robin Cook emerging as a key figure in the shadow cabinet, a line reads: “Robert Kilroy-Silk in Commons scuffle with Jeremy Corbyn.”
Coverage at the time suggests Mr Kilroy-Silk, now best known for hosting daytime TV and political failures, had attempted to punch Mr Corbyn.
In June Mr Corbyn told the Guardian that he had been arguing on TV against the expulsion of Militant members from the party — a stance which had angered Mr Kilroy-Silk.
Mr Corbyn added that he had “walked off.”
Mr Kilroy-Silk veered dramatically to the right, first joining the xenophobic UK Independence Party before breaking away and founding his own short-lived party Veritas.
