Yes, it remains an amusing episode, but one that highlights Labour's dilemma. In order to win power, they have to win over voters like that who are alien to their posher clientele. Tricky. (View Post)

Didn't have to. (View Post)

Yes, it was a fair enough description but not the kind of thing a politician can say in public! (View Post)

Political appointments are risky at the best of times, and I referred to the case of Peter Jay and Jim Callaghan earlier as a good comparison. I suppose you can fudge the Vetting issue if it all work… (View Post)

It is simply intolerable that a negative finding by the Vetting Committee is not relayed to the PM. It doesn't have to be chapter and verse. It doesn't have to state what the problem was. T… (View Post)