Far too polite and generous but then again Norman was from a party that allowed Johnson to be PM in the first place. So the obvious question to the reviewer is - did you not see this? Was there really no warning of his unsuitability - yet you still went along for the ride. The failing was your party
Being more normal is not going to go down well with those who vote for or veer towards Reform. These people often object to being required to accommodate diversity. It’s the requirement rather than the diversity that’s often the issue - it’s that which the genuine racist play upon…
One lesson of Sue Gray non issue is that Labours effort not to dance to the presses tune just resulted in the press filling the void - chaos and failing first 100 days. All this is still largely noise but the budget - or some big policy direction speech is needed soon.
On the Gray saga. Starmer not exactly bad at politics, but a painfully slow learner www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s defeat in the 2021 byelection nearly prompted its leader to quit. Instead, he learned lessons – just as he must now, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
Tory donations since July - 1. Robert Jenrick - £425k 2. Kemi Badenoch - £204k 3. James Cleverly - £150k They think we are stupid! www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Just days after The Mirror reported that James Cleverly took his wife to Wimbledon and denied she was there, we can reveal he did the same for the Women's World Cup final in Sydney
This is every bit as good as everyone says it is. Ultimately everything comes back to Stamer’s ability to move from LOTO to PM and that requires him to clearer, both to the country and his Cabinet what he’s trying to achieve. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s defeat in the 2021 byelection nearly prompted its leader to quit. Instead, he learned lessons – just as he must now, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
He is a stupid persons idea of a clever person - he knows it and has found a way of monetising this ‘un’ talent. And there is the whole Putin thing …
Sounds a bit like what Ronald Dworkin called Equality - we’ll see…
Also I thought ‘Thatcher’ was reserved for Miners and the left and Tories referred to her fondly as ‘Maggie’. Thatcher pronounced with a spit … Margaret to those who adored her. Jenrick is clearly an idiot …
No he hasn’t - he’ll be a dork til his last breath. There is no possible universe in which Zuckerberg looks or is cool…