Sunday 29 September 2024

A Sharper Political Edge?

We have reached the stage where the Prime Minister is going to have to be asked live on air whether he was in a sexual relationship with Lord Alli. When is it next the turn of GB News to do the pool interview? Indeed, the question needs to be asked on the floor of the House of Commons. George Galloway would have done that. But who is there now? It is not Jeremy Corbyn's style. But what of the Gaza Four?

In the midst of a Labour landslide, one of those four, Shockat Adam, turned Jonathan Ashworth's majority of 22,675 into his own of 979. Yet today there is talk of bringing Jonathan (I never remember his being called Jon back in the day) into 10 Downing Street as Director of Strategy. Apparently, at the opaquely funded and conveniently deniable paper fiction that is Labour Together, he is "wasted". On this Freshers' Sunday at Durham, let me say that I have seen Jonathan wasted.

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