Tom Watson said that Frank Field’s resignation from the Labour whip was a ‘major wake up call’ for the party over anti-Semitism. But it seems some Labour MPs aren’t seeing things quite that way. On Newsnight last night, Chris Williamson said that there is ‘intolerance’ within the party – but only among his fellow MPs:
‘The only intolerance that I have seen in the Labour party has been in the parliamentary party that have not been prepared to honour the democratic decisions of Labour party members.’
"The only intolerance that I have seen in the Labour party has been in the parliamentary party and they are less than 0.4% of our membership," says Labour MP Chris Williamson on Frank Field's resignation@DerbyChrisW | @maitlis | #newsnightpic.twitter.com/cRCvGs4w9e
The headline smacked me between the eyes. ‘I can’t afford to turn my Aga on this winter,’ a nice writer called Flora Watkins whinged in the Telegraph last weekend (she once wrote a Spectator piece about the sublime awfulness of cockapoos that I wished I’d written myself). The sub-head continued: ‘Our writer’s once cosy Norfolk home is feeling the
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