To avoid the “wrong” path and the “right” path and find somewhere in between. “Sounds like your usual centrist bull—-,” replies Dor in an aside, although, since Corbyn is looking unlikely to find a workable home on either the left or the right any time soon, centrist bull—- is probably his only option left.
That’s about it from Jezza – as he says, he has a party to launch, and on the current evidence it needs all the work it can get. But he’s upstaged about 15 minutes later by Ian McKellen, also on video, in a quite wonderfully batty turn as Toto the dog.
Sporting a pair of furry ears, McKellen scratches, pants, throws a bit of shade at James Corden and gives a shout out to his dog superband (co-starring Snoop Dogg, naturally). It’s a deliciously barking off-piste moment in a show that otherwise keeps itself impressively disciplined.
