my name is ian lavery and i'm a proud member of thejeremy corbyn shadow cabinet. is a coming power in the land, jeremy corbyn‘s general election coordinator and chairman of the labour party. if the tories fall, he's most likely destined for high office but perhaps for one thing — his refusal to answer a simple question asked by bbc newsnight last year. you got the mortgage from the union. yes. did you pay it off? the union and myself came to a financial agreement in 2007 with regard to the mortgage, which will remain private between myself and the union. did you pay off your mortgage? a financial agreement... you haven't answered the question, did you pay it off? the answer is no. he didn't pay off his mortgage. i'm the most experienced man here. the union of which he was general secretary, the national union of mineworkers northumberland area, paid it off for him... and paid him much more besides. the reason we now know more about mr lavery‘s funny—peculiar mortgage arrangements is that the trade union regulator has looked at the books after investigations by new