Despite the fighting talk on Twitter, Guido suspects that John ‘Pangloss” McTernan’s heart is not really his spin.
Quotable Labour backbencher John Mann has had it out with Michael Dugher live on the Beeb:
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“[Who’s fault is it?] Ed Miliband and everyone at the top of the Labour Party called this wrong… Michael knows full well the Labour Party election strategy was not to attack UKIP. That was a fundamental error… If I were Douglas Alexander I’d be sending myself off to Scotland.”
Amusing for one crucial reason: Dugher in private agrees with Mann.
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Nigel Farage is in Thurrock, where UKIP won the popular vote with 39% and Labour lost control of the council. Their number 2 target seat for 2015…
Rule number one if you are an MP appearing on the telly: don’t drop the F-bomb. That’s what Nick Herbert did on the Daily Politics just now:
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Poor JoCo!
Julia Hartley-Brewer asking the only question that matters on LBC:
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At least he was honest about it…
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His aides did their best to divert the camera crew, but their attempts to save their leader were in vain…