Politics / There are bin liners with more empathy than Keir Starmer |
The liaison committee is always a laugh. It’s sort of like a year in review for the government’s litany of failures. Like an advent calendar but behind each door there’s a little puddle of cat sick. The specific aim of this particular roundup was ‘the work of the Prime Minister’, and so as a festive treat our very own pig in a blanket was dragged in for an extra big Christmas helping of his least favourite thing in the world – scrutiny.
First up was Alberto Costa, appropriately the chair of the Standards Committee, which during this parliament must be like being the person whose job it was to keep the deck dry on the Titanic. Mr. Costa made sure to ask him very slowly and deliberately if he understood specific parts of the ministerial code, as if he were asking a toddler whether they were absolutely sure that they could go to the toilet on their own. This was a perfect hoisting of the PM, being exactly the sort of ‘letter not spirit’ legalism which he spent most of his career doing. The PM assented with a sort of worried, constipated nod.
Mr. Costa began with one of the PM’s social media posts about bus fare caps, which appeared to take credit for a Tory policy. It might seem small in........