How a Tory MP's tweeted apology proves Labour is still winning at social media

Ben Bradley's apology to Jeremy Corbyn was retweeted 55,000 times. Does this mean social media is the future of political recourse?

Congratulations to Ben Bradley, Conservative MP for Mansfield, who, in little over a week, has managed to clock up more retweets - 55,000 - than all of the Tory party's tweets in 2018 combined.

Unfortunately for Bradley, the tweet in question was part of a legal agreement following a defamatory post sent about Jeremy Corbyn, in which he said that the Labour leader had "sold secrets to communist spies". A slur related to a right-wing press fabricated story that Corbyn cooperated with a Czech intelligence agent in the 1980s.