Another week and another Penny Mordaunt moment. The Leader of the House might not have won either of last year’s leadership contests but she’s positioning herself well for the next one with her forthright appearances in parliament.
She used today’s Business Statement to take aim at the difference between ‘what Labour says and what Labour does’ and even managed to throw in a football theme, based on Gary Lineker’s latest shenanigans. She fired off a series of shots at a ‘team captain’ who doesn’t even know what ‘colour shirt’ he’s wearing and accused them of being a ‘party of goal hangers and the occasional left-wing striker’.
Mordaunt one, Labour nil…
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