As Penny Mordaunt gears up to face six other party representatives at the ITV debate, including Plaid’s Rhun ap Iorwerth, Guido is reminded of the Tory darling’s last battle with a Welshman. Back in 1996 Bryan Griffiths, a former councillor, was made redundant from his £31,000-a-year gig as the general manager of Reading University’s Student Union. He fixed his sights on the SU’s then president, one Penny Mordaunt, a philosophy graduate who had gone on to work at Conservative Central Office. Griffiths claimed Mordaunt “made derogatory remarks about his Welshness, saying he was a ‘little, dark, Welshman'”…
Griffiths took his grievance to an industrial tribunal and also alleged: “They have said there is no such thing as a Welsh nation. I have taken the case up with the Commission for Racial Equality.” Mordaunt later won against the Welshman in that tribunal case – a precedent for tonight?
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”
