Where was Sir Keir when duty called?

BY ANY measure, the Government’s attempts to defend the indefensible position in which Angela Rayner landed herself over the last couple of weeks have been lamentable.

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On Friday, after nearly two weeks of bluff and bluster and flim and flam, the Housing Secretary experienced her own eviction — and rightly so.

Her attempt to bend the rules over the purchase of her seaside apartment turned into an end of the pier show for “our Ange”.

Tellingly, her swift demise from supposedly being the second most important elected politician in the country to being a national laughing stock has been mirrored by the catastrophic decline in any respect for the Prime Minister and his allies.

Consider this: Labour’s defence strategy rested in part on this being an unfair attack on Rayner as she is “Northern and working class”. Talk about a suicide note! Did it not occur to the skinny latte drinking, bento bowl munching Leftist elite who control Labour that they have managed to grossly disrespect most of their voting base?