Corbynista cheerleader Ian Lavery is used to dishing it out, but on the evidence of last night’s Question Time he is not quite so good at knowing what to do when it comes back at him. The Labour MP got a taste of his own medicine after Rod Liddle took him to task over the ‘raft of hypocrites’ in his party:
‘Thornberry, Abbott, Chakrabarti, all of who don’t want you to send your kids to private or selective schools but do so for their kids. And for Corbyn and McDonnell who have given support and succour to every possible hostile, violent anti-democrat terrorist regime that they can: IRA, Hamas, Hezbollah, Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela. If you want people like that running your country, vote for Corbyn’
Seeing those photographs of Angela Rayner on Hove beach in broad daylight drinking a vast glass of rosé (‘day wine’ as my lot call it) I felt a rare flash of FOMO. I met a lot of politicians when I worked as a political columnist for the Mail on Sunday in my twenties, and I’ve
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