Theresa May gets huge shot in the arm from Olympics legend and lifelong Labour fan – Sir Bradley Wiggins

THERESA May got a huge shot in the arm from Olympics legend and lifelong Labour fan – Sir Bradley Wiggins.

The Tour de France winner and ardent leftie said he believed the PM had done a “fantastic job” since taking over in Downing Street in July after the EU Referendum.

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And he insisted that while Jeremy Corbyn was a “lovely fella” he didn’t agree with everything he stands for.

Sir Bradley – currently embroiled in a drugs controversy – interviewed Jeremy Corbyn in December last year when he guest edited BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

Asked yesterday if he was willing to help a fellow cyclist, Sir Bradley said: “I don’t think he needs help. I’ve met Jeremy, he’s a lovely fella.

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“I don’t agree with everything that he is for, I think the world is changing at a fast pace.

“But one thing I will say, having been my family, historically Labour, and my wife’s family, all historically Labour, I think Theresa has done a fantastic job in stabilising the country in the short-term after the whole debacle in the summer.”

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In December, Mr Corbyn told ‘Wiggo’ politics wasn’t about winning and that he wasn’t that
competitive.

He said: “In sport, yes you’re in it to take part but the reality is you are in it to win.

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“Politics is different in the sense I am not that competitive a person in that sense.

“I am much more a community co-operative kind of person.”