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Starmer conference heckler pictured smiling with Jeremy Corbyn hours before leader’s speech

Carole Vincent attended an event with the former Labour leader in Brighton before Starmer's speech

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Carole Vincent, who made headlines last week for her interruption of Sir Keir Starmer’s keynote speech at Labour Party conference in Brighton has been pictured smiling alongside former Labour leader and independent MP Jeremy Corbyn. 

The former Big Brother contestant and failed Respect party council candidate is a member of the Leyton and Wanstead Constituency Labour Party and was pictured with Mr Corbyn at the Islington North Labour Party social held on September 28, the night before Sir Keir Starmer’s address.

Also present at the event was Coventry South MP Zarah Sultana who can seen next to Ms Vincent as she poses with a raised fist. 

Ms Vincent attracted significant media attention for her loud interruptions of Sir Keir’s speech with TV cameras picking her up shouting and pointing her finger at the Labour leader.  In response to repeated heckles during Sir Keir’s 88-minute speech, he exclaimed, “Slogans? Or changing lives conference?”

When approached by reporters after the speech, Ms Vincent later said that she expected to be kicked out of the party as a result of her actions, but that she also expected Sir Keir to be gone before the next election.  Speaking to the Daily Mail, she said: “I probably will be expelled and that's sad because I work bloody hard for this party. 

“I don't get paid for it, it's because on my membership card it says this is a party of socialist democrats, it's a socialist democratic party and that's why I joined – so we all have a voice and we haven't had a voice.”  

Later that week, Ms Vincent was also in attendance at the now controversial Cable Street 85th anniversary rally where Mr Corbyn was criticised for sharing a platform with Hazuan Hashim, one of the four suspended members of the Liverpool Wavertree Labour Party. 

Mr Hashim was suspended after he and three other members criticised local MP Paula Barker for expressing a desire to repair relationships between Labour and the city’s Jewish community. 

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