Baroness Margaret Hodge, Labour’s ‘Anti-Corruption Champion,’ told Newsnight last night that No10’s efforts to secure an ambassador job for Matthew Doyle were entirely fair:
“If somebody you’re working with is about to lose your job, there’s nothing wrong I think in saying ‘Are there any other jobs available’ as long as you know that he could apply for going through due process to get those jobs… there’s nothing wrong with friends saying ‘are there any jobs around,’ what I do think was wrong was saying that they shouldn’t have told the Foreign Secretary I think that was wrong.”
Not even Pat McFadden took that line…
Lee Anderson, speaking to The Sun’s Tom Scotson, reveals the wokest thing he’s ever done: “I once had a vegetarian thought, about becoming a vegetarian. That was quickly dismissed when I had a bacon sandwich…”