Lucy Powell on Times Radio this morning:
“I think Russell Brand has been a public figure for 20 years. And I’m sure like many, many other people, had I, Ed Miliband or anybody else known to then what we know today, of course, history would have been very, very different. And he wouldn’t have been given the platforms that he was.
[…]
I think that everybody now, knowing what they know, would take a very different and dim view of that had any of those things been understood widely at the time, which they weren’t. So we weren’t in the social media age then where these sorts of allegations were maybe around a bit but not really well known…”
‘Maybe around a bit’…
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.”