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LEN McCLUSKEY was not spotted by the Star in the stampede towards the free nosh at Unite’s conference bash on Tuesday night.
That’s probably because a steady stream of delegates were collaring the jovial gen sec for a selfie.
But the better theory doing the rounds — started erroneously by your Star correspondent — was that Mr McCluskey was fasting for Ramadan.
Amid the hustle and bustle, a busy press officer had misheard “do you know any delegates fasting for Ramadan?” as “do you know if Len is fasting for Ramadan?”
The confusion was cleared up but only after some pretty tense moments when the dutiful staffer had fired a text to, and received a quick reply from, the top man’s assistant.
