The Time Has Come To Tell The Truth

And so it turns out not to be the one who claimed to have, "met pensioners who had illegal migrants in their bedrooms when they woke up in the morning." The winner is the doctor's and professor's daughter who said that a Saturday job at McDonald's while she was a Sixth Former had made her working-class. His supporters are not taking it well, and they are making no attempt to disguise the reason why not.

Unless Kemi Badenoch relished the prospect of the Shadow Home Secretary's being struck off as a solicitor because of his remarks likely to prejudice a live criminal case, then she ought not to offer that position to Robert Jenrick. She ought not to offer any position to Jenrick. For the second weekend running, the Bad has at least beaten the Worse, and you need only check certain comments threads and corners of social media to see just how much Worse. Those people include one third of Conservative MPs. But last weekend, Richard Tice made it clear that Reform UK actively did not want the support of the person or supporters of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. And this weekend, the Conservatives have rejected the same thing but slightly better-dressed.

Yet Keir Starmer has today expressed more solidarity with Badenoch than he ever has with, most obviously but not exclusively, Diane Abbott. Will Badenoch's Conservative Party continue to take money from Frank Hester? Will he wish to make such donations? If the answer to either of those questions were no, then there would always be the Labour Party. Donors to Jenrick's campaign, and people who might have donated to his party if he had won, might consider instead the party of the sale of everyone's NHS data to Peter Thiel's Palantir, of the forcible injection of the unemployed with weight loss drugs, of the dispatch of "job coaches" into psychiatric wards to harangue the patients, of the two-child benefit cap, of the withdrawal of the Winter Fuel Payment, of the 50 per cent increase in bus fares, of the incitement of the Israeli use of the surrender or starve strategy in Gaza, and of the assertion that the slave trade had been no cause for apology.