“I didn’t insinuate anything. I said that there is a very clear problem, and I’ve given you an example of it, and you don’t seem to be taking it seriously.”
Plus: Thank you for the three bottles of vintage wine…but you forgot to enclose a note with your name. Christmas, eh?
Labour require ID checks for new members – yet show a less rigour when it comes to voting by the wider electorate.
The new Labour leader is easily mocked. But he has done us the service of expressing, in Parliament, a widespread mood of febrile dissatisfaction.
Will Diane Abbott get the nomination on the Islington MP’s coat-tails?
“Those people interested in what he has to say wouldn’t dream of voting for Jeremy Corbyn, and I think for the other people… this might be counter-productive.”
“One of Miss Harman’s aides said to be yesterday ‘Well, it could have been worse.’ Actually it couldn’t be much worse… bluntly the party seems in pretty much disarray.”
I know you don’t want to hear from your opponents right now, but it would be really lovely if you could grant me a few requests.
Plus: Rubbish in the Sun. Andy Carroll is out. A mystery Tory is in – with an au pair, at any rate. My controversial book on the NHS. And: Lord Fink is right.
Far from being his decision, the report won’t even cross the Prime Minister’s desk until after the general election.
Three MPs asked serious questions about the Chilcot Inquiry. Reckless at least managed to be brief. Clegg looked very, very sad.
Only the points of order raised against John Bercow by three Tory MPs struck a partisan note.