Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news

Charlie Falconer, who served as justice secretary in Tony Blair's governments, has accused the present holder of that post, Shabana Mahmood, of imposing her religious beliefs on others by voting against the assisted dying bill.

What arrant, pompous nonsense from a man who spent the best part of a decade imposing his own metropolitan liberal ideology on the nation. And unlike Tony Blair's former flatmate Baron Falconer of Thoroton, ,at least Miss Mahmood went to the trouble of standing for election first.

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Champagne corks will no doubt be popping in Extinction Rebellion headquarters, as the crusties begin to see their campaign bearing fruit.

Stellantis, the ludicrously named conglomerate that now owns Vauxhall, is to close its van plant in Luton in April, after 120 years in the town. The company blames the Government's impossible-to-achieve targets, which........

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