Politics Live today has seen fiery exchanges between Energy Minister Miatta Fahnbulleh and critics of Labour’s extreme freebie donation hypocrisy. Brexit veteran Lord Stewart Jackson had a few choice words for Labour:

“We’ve seen a bacchanalian orgy of greed – this is ridiculous frankly and with respect you’re responsible for the the way people are thinking about this I have no problem with people taking hospitality and declaring it in the rules. But the Labour Party have this sort of moral relativism where they say ‘it’s all right for us because we’re the virtuous ones and the Tories are uniquely greedy self-serving incompetent et cetera.’ The number one political rule is: don’t believe your own PR.”

Jackson pointed out that the problem is the hypocrisy: “you’ve framed the debate in terms of ‘the Tories are greedy’ and people hate hypocrisy from politicians.” He added interestingly that the public “will forgive a sex scandal… what they loath is hypocrisy.” It’s not letting up for Downing Street…