THE DEFAULT emotion of the newly re-elected MP for Brighton Kemptown appears to be rage.

Watching the online video of Lloyd Russell-Moyle’s election night acceptance speech, one cannot help feeling that this is a man barely in control of himself.

The jabbing finger, the snarling face, the shouty rhetoric, suggest someone in the thrall of negative emotions.

They do not suggest someone likely to contribute to measured debate.

And in fact his parliamentary history is one of ranting, heckling, and of such puerile gestures as picking up the Mace, of trying to hold down the Speaker, and of setting off flares on Westminster Bridge.

He may claim to be a “progressive” but his antics make him seem more of a throw-back... a would-be Lenin, a would-be Robespierre, a would-be Savonarola.

More Leftist, Marxist, Corbynite than even his mentor, he is in danger of becoming a political pterodactyl.

As the country and his own party weary of, and turn away from, Corbynism and all it represents, he remains as a relic of a passing moment.

Why 25,033 people voted for this man, I can’t imagine.

Graham Chainey, Marine Parade, Brighton