Martin Winter, the ex-Labour mayor of Doncaster, brought Ed Miliband’s infamous Muslim prayer mat with him on the Daily Politics today:

“This man set fire to my office, right, well, after he’d set fire to my office he bought a prayer mat to cover the burn mark in my office. Let’s ignore the metaphor about covering things up there, let’s just talk about how disrespectful to the Muslim community to buy a prayer mat for me to wipe my feet on.”

No word on whether it was facing Mecca…