As Boris Johnson faced the Commons today over the shock findings in Sue Gray’s interim report, it fell to Tory backbencher Aaron Bell to deliver the most painful blow. The MP for Newcastle-Under-Lyme told the House that he didn’t hug his parents at his grandmother’s funeral.
“Am I a fool?” he asked the Prime Minister.
The windows in the chamber are too high for the Prime Minister to be able to see out to the River Thames. But across that river, the sea of red hearts painted on the south side of the river are visible from Parliament’s terraces.
