The new Shadow Paymaster General opens up on his upbringing
When former Playboy Bunny Girl and journalist Susan Wallace heard MP Jonathan Ashworth unexpectedly mention the Manchester Playboy Club during a keynote fringe event at Labour Party Conference, her ears pricked up. It turns out he has the late Hugh Hefner’s fancy of a punt on Canal Street in 1973 to thank for bringing his Mancunian parents - Jon and Marie - together.
“She’d left school at 16, and was a Bunny Girl waitress in the casino at the Manchester Playboy Club. She had to have a different name. There’s a picture of me somewhere as a child at the Manchester Playboy Club - at the children’s Christmas party they had every year.”READ MORE: The Manchester neighbourhood where affordable homes are going to be built
He has done so now for over 20 years - getting on despite the odds. He has been Labour MP for Leicester South since 2011 as well as working with Gordon Brown when Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister; Ed Miliband and other top politicians. Carman went on to successfully defend him. Another night, his dad cheekily encouraged a fellow croupier worried about a parking ticket for his Ford Capri to ask notoriously witty Mr Carman for help and was told: “Come back when you drive a Rolls Royce!”“These are the sort of characters you’d get in the Playboy Club in Canal Street in the casino lifestyle of 1970s Manchester - like George Best, Manchester United footballer.
Jonathan started attending meetings and joined the Labour Party at 15. He left Manchester at 18 to go to Durham University to study politics and philosophy.
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