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Ms. Lauren Edwards, recently elected to Parliament for Rochester and Strood, previously worked as a parliamentary researcher for Labour MPs including Barbara Keeley, Teresa Pearce and Lisa Nandy until 2013.

One might have expected her to have a certain empathy with the working classes, as a Labour apparatchik.

Or maybe not.

 “Are the cleaners on recess too? My desk has so many coffee rings it looks like Saturn,” she reportedly tweeted during the period in which she was working in the House of Commons..

Not much sympathy for the lower-paid working classes from Ms. Edwards apparently.

Another tweet, which appeared to refer to an account called Baroness Wrenthorpe, and which itself appears to be somewhat racist, said: “Baroness Wrenthorpe text me (sic) from Walthamstow to say he’s seen a halal Pakistani Chinese Grill place. Hope he’s not suggesting we go there.”

Lisa Nandy, Labour MP for Wigan. Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, also follows Baroness Wrenthorpe.

Guilt by association I know, but Labour would not hesitate to make the link if such an unpleasant tweet came from a Tory, or as Ms. Edwards might possibly describe such a person, a “racist”.

But it appears that Ms. Edwards has expressed, if we look at her past tweets, a possible dislike for migrants from the former Soviet Union, a position shared by Putinists and others who regret the demise of the Evil Empire.

In particular, some from Estonia.

Of course, the Labour Party, from its inception, was pro-Soviet.

Estonians, who suffered horrifically under the Soviet yoke, in the the Great Purge in the Soviet Union from 1937-1938, generally see the Soviet experience as something somewhat less than positive.

Britain has become a safe haven for many from the former Soviet Union, including many Estonians.

Having been rumbled, Ms. Edwards issued an apology, thus making everything alright. Or so she may think.