Not In His Place?

This year, the late May Bank Holiday does in fact fall on the real Whit Monday, so Nigel Farage has only today to turn up to Parliament before what is still called the Whitsun recess.

Farage has not voted since 18 March, he has not spoken since 25 March, and he has not tabled a written question since as long ago as 10 February last year. He is regularly mentioned on the floor of the House, when it is always necessary to add that he is "not in his place".

It is not as if he is in Clacton. Yet Keir Starmer effectively gave that seat to Farage, with the ghoulish Labour Party staff ordering Jovan Owusu-Nepaul not even to set foot there, much less to campaign. He still took almost as many votes as Farage's margin of victory, so who knows what might have happened if he had been allowed out on the stump?