Jeremy Corbyn
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And I went to see him in Papua New Guinea after I'd been to the referendum in East Timor.
And we went round the mountains and things in New Guinea.
And I've always treasured that last time.
Then a year later, I get a call at home from somebody to say that Andrew had died.
And he was fit, only four years older than me.
And it turned out he'd had a brain hemorrhage and died.
And so that was the most, to me, utterly devastating.
You'd never expect it to a sibling.
And then I went to New Guinea for the funeral and then brought the body back to Australia for his family because his family lived in Australia.
So it was the most sad and traumatic experience in personal life, yeah.
I always read before I go to sleep at night.
So I was in the library the other day in the Commons, and I love the House of Commons library.
Don't go talking about it so much, otherwise it'll get filled up.