The Labour candidate who caught Fire

An interesting story reaches me about one of the candidates for the Labour leadership from a party insider.

Not so many years ago the aforementioned candidate was at a celebration party organised by a centre left leaning think tank when he accidentally caught fire off a candle. For a few seconds the poor man (well it wasn't  Diana Abbot, I can tell you) looked like "a chicken on fire, all puffed up and seemingly nowhere to go" my informant tells me.

With the help of nearby comrades, the fire...