Oh dear. Labour’s unofficial collector of titles Angela Rayner popped up in the Commons today to attack the government over its supposed ‘Covid cronyism’. Ministers such as Priti Patel have been accused of improperly helping to secure PPE contracts last year.
Unfortunately for Rayner her opponent at the dispatch box was none other than the redoubtable Penny Mordaunt. Mordaunt savaged Rayner’s claims in a brutal exchange:
I would suggest to [Ms Rayner] that an Essex MP is perfectly entitled to forward an offer of help from the Essex Chamber of Commerce to help in a pandemic. MPs do it all the time, it’s part of our job, but [Ms Rayner] already knows this too, and I’m afraid so does everyone else.The urgent question today has more to do with Labour’s internal politics and divisions than the conduct of members of this House and enterprises who have been working to help the NHS and to save lives. [Ms
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