Worth The Risk?

Like Anna Turley, who now attends Cabinet while chairing the Labour Party, Peter Kyle was given his big break in politics by the Chief Whip whose Whips’ Office included both Kyle’s close friend, closest ally, and sometime lover, Ivor Caplin, and at the same time Dan Norris, who was also notably close to Caplin, and whose proxy vote in the House of Commons continues to be cast by the Labour Whips. 

Along with the subsequently adjudicated and disqualified electoral fraud Phil Woolas, such was the Whips’ Office that forced through the Iraq War. Caplin, Norris and Woolas were all made Ministers a few weeks later. Up behind them has come Kyle, among others. Including Peter Mandelson’s political godson, Wes Streeting. And Streeting’s political godson, the youngest Minister since Gladstone, Keir Mather.

Since they are to enter pleas on 17 October before a trial next April, it may be a breach of the sub judice rules for anyone to ask under parliamentary privilege about the three Ukrainian rent boys who had been charged with arson with intent to endanger life in relation to the attacks on Keir Starmer’s rented out house, his old flat, and his old car.

But someone should give it a try, although Reform UK gave a standing ovation to someone who had been convicted of inciting racially aggravated arson with intent to endanger life, attacks that did in fact take place. Done in furtherance of political aims, those were acts of terrorism. As, therefore, was their incitement. The glorification of that was the glorification of terrorism. Over, then, to the Independent Alliance, over whom hangs no such cloud. Two of them are lawyers.

Meanwhile, Reform, Rupert Lowe or James McMurdock needs to put up or shut up about Nick Brown. If they did not know the story, which they do, then any of their mates in the Lobby could tell them. Say it on the floor of the House, or let no one, anywhere, ever say it again.