By The Toe

In general, the n-word ought never to be used. I suspect that that is Diane Abbott's own view. She used it to show what she and her staff had to endure many times every day. All hell broke loose, thereby largely making her point.

But Anne Marie Morris used it in a speech to a public meeting earlier this year, and no one has attempted to have the House of Commons censure her. So much for the anti-racist credentials of certain MPs.

She did so by making use of an expression that had not been current in 50 or 60 years, even though she herself is only 60. What is it with Conservative MPs for the West Country?

Nor has either than House or the Labour Party, still less the media, taken any action against the MP who has done the most to legitimise the abuse of Diane Abbott, Jess Phillips.