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While politicians are currently debating the Assisted Dying Bill in Parliament, Dame Vivienne Westwood has decided there is a more pressing matter that ought to be on the news agenda. The eco-minded fashion designer is on her way to David Cameron's house in a massive tank. Alas, it's not a friendly visit. Westwood has hired out the fuel-guzzling machine in order to protest about fracking outside Cameron's Chadlington home, in his constituency village: Dame Vivienne Westwood's anti fracking tank rides to David Cameron's house in #Witney. #HeartNews pic.twitter.com/oRRn50ibBg — Thames Valley News (@HeartThamesNews) September 11, 2015 It's not the first time Westwood has taken part in a bizarre stunt in her quest to stop the government from fracking.

An excerpt from Anthony Seldon's David Cameron biography claimed that George Osborne finds his Tory leadership rival Boris Johnson 'plain annoying'. Happily the pair put any differences aside today as the Chancellor of the Exchequer paid a visit to Johnson's constituency. The happy duo visited the Battle of Britain Bunker in Uxbridge to see how a £1m investment will help to restore the historic site. This bunker, if you remember, was the one Osborne joking referred to in the Budget when he said 'I want to thank the member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip for bringing to my attention the dilapidated state of his campaign bunker'. The Mayor invited Osborne to check out the state of that campaign bunker, and the pair had great fun pushing flags across a map together.

Harriet Harman ended her final appearance at PMQs as the interim Labour leader with a parting shot in the direction of Jeremy Corbyn, who is the odds-on favourite to be the party's next leader. ‘It was quite surprising to discover I’m not possibly old enough or posh enough to be the frontrunner of this leadership election,' Harman told Andrew Neil on the Daily Politics. It's true Corbyn is one year older than Harman, at 66, but is he really more posh than the St Paul's Girls' School alumnus? The die-hard socialist certainly has the most privileged upbringing of any of the Labour leadership candidates. Growing up in a seven-bedroom manor house in Shropshire, he is the only candidate who attended private school, studying at the independent Castle House Preparatory School.

Although Conservative politicians insist they are not worried by the threat of a Jeremy Corbyn led opposition, an incident that occurred on Tuesday night appears to suggest otherwise. Channel 4's Michael Crick discovered a Conservative press officer sat in the audience at Corbyn's political rally in Nuneaton. When Crick confronted the staffer -- known as Mike Watkinson -- with his camera crew behind him, Watkinson came across all camera shy and immediately fled the scene: https://twitter.com/MichaelLCrick/status/641294675001901057 A chase scene followed as Crick threw questions in Watkinson's direction, asking him why he was attending the event on behalf of the Tories: 'Were you sent here by the Conservative party? Have you come to gather intelligence?

Given that Corbynmania has so far led users on Mumsnet to lust over Jeremy Corbyn's 'world weary sea dog' looks, as well as inspiring a host of politicians to grow their facial hair, it was only a matter of time until the LGBT community also got in on the action. Mr S has come across a new Corbyn fan base which goes by the name of 'Lezzers4Jezzer'. The group of ladies, who are backing Corbyn in part because he supports gay rights, have even been promoting the Twitter account at Jeremy Corbyn events: https://twitter.com/Lezzers4Jezzer/status/640462819289337856 However, Corbyn beware.

The results aren't in, the votes haven't been counted, but you can still book a place at Tom Watson's election results party! An intriguing invite popped up in Mr S's inbox from none other than the deputy Labour leadership hopeful. Although Watson -- who is the odds-on favourite at 1/14 -- says he is holding the event regardless of whether he wins or loses, he has taken the bold step of booking out an entire pub come what may. Watson tells supporters about his party prep in an email. 'So win or lose on Saturday 12 September, after the result is announced, I'm having a party,' Watson writes. 'We've booked The Old Star on 12th September from 12pm. I'd love to see you there.

After a young Syrian child was photographed washed up dead on a Turkish beach, David Cameron has been the subject of much vitriol as members of the public and politicians alike urge him to do more to help refugees. However, it is a former Ukip candidate who has attracted the most furore on the topic. Peter Bucklitsch, Ukip's election candidate for Wimbledon, has taken to Twitter to claim that the boy's parents are to blame for his death because they tried to take him to Europe. Bucklitsch says three-year-old Aylan Kurdi was 'well clothed and well fed', and that he died because 'his parents were greedy for the good life in Europe,' adding that 'queue jumping costs': Unsurprisingly his comments have been met with uproar online.