The minister hopped and jerked like a barefoot man on hot sand: HENRY DEEDES sees MPs vent their fury over the Post Office scandal By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 27 April 2021 | Updated: 02:26 BST, 28 April 2021 Bankruptcy. Imprisonment. And, in some cases, suicide. The Post Office IT … Read more
The minister hopped and jerked like a barefoot man on hot sand: HENRY DEEDES sees MPs vent their fury over the Post Office scandal By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 27 April 2021 | Updated: 02:26 BST, 28 April 2021 Bankruptcy. Imprisonment. And, in some cases, suicide. The Post Office IT … Read more
Whitehall’s grandest fromage Simon Case looked affronted. Surprised, even. Dare I say it, perhaps a little hurt. The new(ish) Cabinet Secretary had just been accused by MPs of being evasive. Eh? Civil servants being tricksy? Choke! Cough! Splutter! Who could even think such a thing? Mr Case had been summoned before the public affairs committee … Read more
Whitehall’s grandest fromage Simon Case looked affronted. Surprised, even. Dare I say it, perhaps a little hurt. The new(ish) Cabinet Secretary had just been accused by MPs of being evasive. Eh? Civil servants being tricksy? Choke! Cough! Splutter! Who could even think such a thing? Mr Case had been summoned before the public affairs committee … Read more
From the Labour benches there came orchestrated harrumphs, spray-on shock and the sucked-in air of outrage. For the second week in a row, Sir Keir Starmer was crying foul about cronyism. After all those dog-day coronavirus months, old-fashioned Tory sleaze rows have breathed new life into the Commons. Labour’s benches once again drip with oily … Read more
From the Labour benches there came orchestrated harrumphs, spray-on shock and the sucked-in air of outrage. For the second week in a row, Sir Keir Starmer was crying foul about cronyism. After all those dog-day coronavirus months, old-fashioned Tory sleaze rows have breathed new life into the Commons. Labour’s benches once again drip with oily … Read more
Whoa! Talk about tossing a flaming hot scotch bonnet in the stew pot… Boris Johnson had reached the end of his Downing Street press briefing: A drab, lifeless affair through which he’d negotiated his way unscathed. Until the last hurdle that is. The final question fell to a man from online news site Huffington Post, … Read more
Whoa! Talk about tossing a flaming hot scotch bonnet in the stew pot… Boris Johnson had reached the end of his Downing Street press briefing: A drab, lifeless affair through which he’d negotiated his way unscathed. Until the last hurdle that is. The final question fell to a man from online news site Huffington Post, … Read more
Ey up! Who was this cheery peer beaming at us down the Zoom lens, with eyes like hooded ping pong balls, forehead shiny as a linoleum floor? Why it was Eric Pickles – ex-Tory minister, government flak jacket and seasoned Westminster trencherman. Been a while since we heard owt from ‘Uncle Eric’, as the former … Read more
Ey up! Who was this cheery peer beaming at us down the Zoom lens, with eyes like hooded ping pong balls, forehead shiny as a linoleum floor? Why it was Eric Pickles – ex-Tory minister, government flak jacket and seasoned Westminster trencherman. Been a while since we heard owt from ‘Uncle Eric’, as the former … Read more