Corbynista cheerleader Ian Lavery is used to dishing it out, but on the evidence of last night’s Question Time he is not quite so good at knowing what to do when it comes back at him. The Labour MP got a taste of his own medicine after Rod Liddle took him to task over the ‘raft of hypocrites’ in his party:
‘Thornberry, Abbott, Chakrabarti, all of who don’t want you to send your kids to private or selective schools but do so for their kids. And for Corbyn and McDonnell who have given support and succour to every possible hostile, violent anti-democrat terrorist regime that they can: IRA, Hamas, Hezbollah, Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela. If you want people like that running your country, vote for Corbyn’
This week has seen much talk – again – of the ‘Treasury View’, and how that rarely defined set of values might be influencing this government’s approach to migration. First, let’s kill off some conspiracy theories that exist about the Treasury View. In general terms the Treasury View stands for cautious conservatism (with a small
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