Guido reported yesterday that Labour’s candidate for East Midlands Mayor, Claire Ward, invited Starmer and Wes Streeting earlier this month to King’s Mill Hospital in Ashfield, for which she is Chairman of the Board of Directors – involving the hospital in political activity while also failing to invite Tory candidate Ben Bradley. It looks like the Tories’ ‘patients’ with the shenanigans is running thin…

Local MP Lee Anderson accused “same old Labour” of “gutter politics” for the move. In the Commons today Health Secretary Victoria Atkins told Anderson that the government has raised the matter with the Chief Executive of NHS England and the regional NHS director as a potential breach of the widely-accepted Nolan Principles of public standards. Not quite what the doctor ordered…

Just last week Ward was banging on about how “important” the Nolan Principles are to her. What happened?