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Laura Alvarez is Jeremy Corbyn’s third wife. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Jeremy Corbyn will appear on The One Show without his wife, Laura Alvarez, after choosing not to follow the example of Theresa and Philip May’s joint interview with the BBC1 programme.

Labour rejected the offer of a similar format because Corbyn maintains that his family is completely out of bounds during the general election campaign.

Alvarez, a Mexican human rights lawyer who runs a fairtrade coffee company, became Corbyn’s third wife in 2013 after they met some years before at a Latin American group.



The 48-year-old has rarely spoken to the press but told Vice News in a documentary of her pride in Corbyn’s response to David Cameron being rude about his dress sense. Alvarez said: “Jeremy stood very strong. It was amazing.”

The Labour leader very rarely speaks about his family life, acknowledging last month in the speech he was “averse to talking about myself”.

Philip May also has a relatively low profile but revealed a few personal details in the One Show interview, including that his wife had wanted to be prime minister for at least seven years.

Speaking about their division of the domestic labour, the prime minister also said there were “boy jobs and girl jobs”, with her husband taking the bins out when he was asked to do so. He said he made the tea “from time to time”.