There is lots of train travel for ministers – especially now that they have to cart themselves up to No10 North. But how do they while away the hours?
Water minister Emma Hardy was sitting in front of a co-conspirator on the 4 p.m. service to Hull this Thursday.
What did she work on after a summer of droughts, in the middle of a water utilities crisis, with the Secretary of Defence saying prepare for floods, and the week before the Budget? Plonking on mobile phone games for the whole 2+ hours – we all need a break sometimes…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”