There’s a genius in Islington North, after Jeremy Corbyn pranked his followers to make them register to vote.

I don’t know whether it was the Boy himself or one of his team who came up with it, but the post went up on X and Facebook at about 17.05 BST on June 18.

Here it is, along with one response:

I was honestly bracing myself as I went to click on the link. I even asked myself: ‘Why can’t they leave him alone?’

And then this…😁

— Pav Akhtar (own views, etc) (@pav_akhtar) June 18, 2024

If you’re wondering why Pav Akhtar added a big smile emoji to that comment, it’s because the link does not take readers to a video of Jeremy Corbyn with a grime artist; it takes them to the government’s “Register to vote” web page.

As pranks go, it’s a work of genius.

I hope it encouraged a deluge of last-minute applications – not just from people in Islington North but across the UK.

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