Regular readers of this site may have detected a mild degree of scepticism about the virtues of Keir Starmer, but he did at least use Prime Minister's Questions to remind Ed Davey that the Liberal Democrats had been in government in the days of austerity, when Davey had been in the Cabinet, and when Starmer had first started working on Hillsborough but the Coalition had failed to introduce even what little excuse for a Hillsborough Law that Starmer now proposed.
I had a similar little incident at a hustings in 2019, when the Lib Dem candidate at North West Durham went on and on about the bedroom tax until I pointed out that his party had been in office when it had been introduced. He has never spoken to me since. The Lib Dems complain that, with 72 MPs and with more Council Leaders than the Conservatives, they are not given nearly enough airtime. They have a point, but it is really that they are under-scrutinised, and that during their five years as Ministers they were scandalously so.
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