At least this puts paid to the idea that the Parliamentary Party is best placed to decide who's electable or most likely to provide effective leadership.
I see the same people who brought us 'Don't underestimate Liz Truss' are now bringing us 'Don't underestimate Kemi Badenoch'
They used to say it takes one to know one. It doesn't really help explain why someone was so naive as to accept designer specs to say that a greedy scrounger is laughing at them for doing it!
He appears to admit he knew nothing about what was going on around him when he made his lame apologies for it.
Yes, but then how can you be transparent about money for preening? Once you take that you're into a parallel way of thinking to the normal.
These aren't the words you're looking for. My SKETCH of Today At A Labour Conference Far, Far Away... thecritic.co.uk/saus...
Up on the screen over the Labour conference stage, the names of the constituencies the party now held scrolled away from us, like the opening crawl of a Star Wars film. Basingstoke. Bournemouth East.
I mainly tune in for headlines from international media outlets. But it's dawning on me that one rarely sees comments or further information beyond those of a broad left mainstream. Reporting by NY Times is frequently berated for not taking that line.
More to the point, have they made his hair a bit more normal here?
