It’s that time of year. The Sunday Times Rich-List is out. To most of us it’s a negligible frivolity. To the hard left it’s hard porn. Their trembling fingers swipe through its glossy pages. Their ravening eyes gaze with confused adoration at the wrinkled oligarchs and their marmalade-coloured wives. At PMQs today Jeremy Corbyn captured this covetous ardour by deriding Theresa May for accepting donations from ‘hedge-fund tycoons’.
She replied that income inequality has fallen since 2010. ‘Labour,’ she said, ‘want to bring people down. Conservatives want to raise people up.’
Corbyn moved to the issue of starvation among poor children. The Labour leader revealed that the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in Victoria Street now has its own foodbank for staff. How amazing! My dad worked for decades in that very building when it was the Department of Trade and Industry. If free grub had been available in the 1970s, I expect he’d have smuggled a few goodies into his government briefcase and handed them out to his children.
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