Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner took to Twitter this morning to boast of the government’s commitment to “hard yards of governing in the national interest.” She promised Labour would ditch the “gimmicks and slogans” that have befallen the public in the past…

A Government of public service means fixing the fundamentals to deliver for the British people.

No more gimmicks and slogans, but the hard yards of governing in the national interest.

The department I lead will be the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

— Angela Rayner (@AngelaRayner) July 9, 2024

One to bookmark, but not for long – her fellow cabinet members just couldn’t resist. Approximately an hour and a half after Rayner’s tweet, Transport Secretary Louise Haigh declared her department’s new motto is, insufferably, “Move Fast and Fix Things”. Sounds suspiciously like an empty slogan…