Iain Martin has a great post over at Three Line Whip about the rather disastrous effect that media training has had on Yvette Cooper’s manner—proof that things can get worse.
For the Kremlinologists of this government, the relationship between Alistair Darling and the newly arrived Chief Secretary to the Treasury is going to be fascinating, not least because so many people think that her husband is manoeuvring for her boss’s job.

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