Zarah Sultana’s recent brave criticisms of Labour from 2015 to 2020, including Brexit triangulation, IHRA capitulation and insufficient fighting spirit, have ruffled feathers but started an essential discussion, writes ANDREW MURRAY
One almighty slip-up from start to finish
What larks eh? This column has on occasion suggested that the Tories couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery. It now transpires that they can’t run a party conference in Birmingham either.
In the space of a week we’ve had more defections than an MI5/KGB exchange programme, plus spats, recriminations and the highly improper use of social media.
Recently the Tories have had more problems with what people are wearing than what they are not. Aiden Burley MP — he of the nazi-themed stag do— that means you.
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