At every Labour fumble the professionals on the Tory front bench look wiser and wiser
For all the differences between the front benches in the Commons at the moment there is one thing that unites them: both sides are headed by career politicians....
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Diane Abbott suggests Chairman Mao ‘on balance did more good than harm’
Labour chancellor John McDonnell may have provoked laughter in the Commons this week for quoting from Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book, but at least he did no...
George Osborne attacks fiscal charter as ‘vacuous and irrelevant legislation’
This week saw chaos in Labour as its shadow chancellor John McDonnell withdrew his support for the Tory government’s fiscal charter, which commits governm...
Labour fiscal charter chaos spills over into media skirmishes
Poor discipline within the Labour ranks spilled over into the media on Tuesday as a dispute over the party’s approach to the government’s fiscal cha...
Diane Abbott defends John McDonnell’s fiscal reversal against sceptical John Humphrys
Hackney MP Diane Abbott went on Radio 4 on Tuesday morning in a bid to rectify the damage caused by news that a civil war had broken out among Labour MPs after ...