The foreign secretary is clearly having a tough time toeing the government line on foreign affairs. He was slapped down by Downing Street for his emotional comments about tariffs on Friday…
On Sunday Darren Jones admitted Britain had been ‘protected’ from a higher tariff rate by dint of its exit from the EU: “We’ve been treated differently from the European Union, that’s correct.” Lammy was having none of it…
He told Italian newspaper la Repubblica: “We are facing a significant change in the way the global trading system works, but this has nothing to do with Brexit.” Lammy’s message discipline has been increasingly waning of late…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”