One of the many, many upsides for the Tories of Corbynmania and Labour’s complete absence of opposition is that they can now just stick two fingers up at accountability:

We'd like to speak to @ukhomeoffice about today's immigration figures. Unfortunately no minister available for #wato pic.twitter.com/MMNkQt7lvs

— Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) August 27, 2015

Weak.

No. 10 is also expected to announce details of the latest list of cronies and donors to be bunged peerages this afternoon as well. Probably not a coincidence that TfL have chosen today to announce that they are backing down to the union bullyboys over all night tubes, either. A good day to bury bad news, not so good for holding power to account…