Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge went for the single-issue approach at DPMQs. After forcing David Lammy to apologise again to Hadush Kebatu’s victim’s family, Cartlidge asked five times in a row whether any other aylum seeker offenders have been accidentally let out since. To a furious response…
The angry Justice Secretary could not answer and at one point shouted “get a grip man” while attacking Tories for the “spectacle” of the justice system after fourteen years in power. A justice system which Shabana Mahmood – sitting next to Lammy – also failed to improve, as some Labourites have pointed out…
Justice minister Alex Davies-Jones told the Today Programme it wasn’t ‘appropriate’ to ask whether or not David Lammy was shopping prior to DPMQs instead of trying to sort out the released prisoner:
“He was preparing for Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions. He was preparing to stand in for the Prime Minister, the first ever black person to do so… He cracked a joke because his poppy had fallen off this suit, which he also addressed during the Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions… I don’t think it’s appropriate to get into the weeds of if he was shopping or not in the morning.”