It started off innocuously enough – a leaked snippet of teenage pupils at a school debating whether a person could identify as a cat.
But within days, and thanks to a media frenzy, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer were being asked about the remarks. And by the end of the week, Kemi Badenoch was demanding the school be urgently investigated by Ofsted in case there were safeguarding issues.
