Click the video above to watch Labour MP Rosena Allin-Khan squirm through a basic yes-or-no question on Newsnight last night: “Should public spending come down?” It’s a question with such an obvious answer that it should barely be worth asking, but Labour MPs find it impossible. Unless they happen to have just lost a high profile job and don’t care anymore…
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.”