Bridget Phillipson and Liz Kendall confronted Kemi Badenoch after PMQs to complain about the Tory leader’s language in the session. Badenoch provided a blistering assessment of the Education Secretary as a “spiteful class warrior” who is also incompetent. She also brought up Guido’s story from yesterday on what teachers think of Phillipson…
Liz Kendall allegedly complained about the language being “outrageous,” to which Badenoch replied: “I’m never going to stop talking about how spiteful you are.”
Phillipson said in response: “The public are going to find out who you really are.” Badenoch’s personal poll ratings continue to go up…
UPDATE: At some point in the exchange Badenoch is meant to have said: “I will never stop fighting you. You are destroying children’s lives.”
UPDATE II: Bridget Phillipson said: “Kemi lost her head at PMQs – and afterwards too. It’s not the first time. She’s compared me to a Gestapo officer. I wonder what it is about a working class woman driving record investment in state schools by ending private schools’ tax breaks that the Tories hate so much.”
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.”