Jeremy Corbyn has revealed the secret to his ‘side eye’ glare that has managed to silence even the most outspoken MPs in the House of Commons.
The Labour leader’s weekly appearances during Prime Ministers Questions have become known for one enduring feature - the glares that accompany pregnant pauses during his stand-offs with David Cameron.
The death stares thrown at backbench MPs have earned him praise and a few fans during the weekly sessions.
Now, it has emerged that Mr Corbyn perfected his methods of “crowd control” while working as a geography teacher in the Carribean when he was just 18.
He described the daunting challenge of being tasked with teaching a class of 70 students during a discussion with journalists at Westminster on Thursday.
“I was then confronted with a class of 70 kids to teach geography - something I was barely aware of," he explained.
“I worked out what all teachers do. If you are a chapter ahead of the class you are okay until you have a really bright kid, and then you have got a problem. You say ‘don’t be so pushy, give a chance to the others’.
“So I learnt tactics of crowd control during that process and also a great deal about people and how you deal with a crisis, because you have to deal with it because you have got no choice.”
