It was a battle of the Westminster couples last night as Yvette Cooper took to the airwaves on Tom Bradby’s ITV Agenda show. Snarkily commenting from the couch at home, Sarah Vine, aka Mrs Michael Gove, publicly questioned ‘How did Ed Balls ever bag Yvette?’
The darling couple of the Brown treasury married in 1998, when Balls was working for Gordon and Yvette was a new Labour MP. But Yvette’s hubby wasn’t having any of it, hitting back ‘Errr.. Hang on.. Pots? Kettles?’
Whatever could he mean? Mr S could never imagine such rumbustious highly personal politics from Nigel Lawson, Norman Lamont, Gordon Bro…oh wait. Over to you chief whip.
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