If ever a day summed up how we are all being taken for a shower of patsies it was Tuesday.
In Liverpool, the new minister for Levelling-Up, Michael Gove, delivered a Martin Luther King-esque crusading message to a conference of northern leaders: “We can’t go on with the gulf between rich and poor, North and South, growing.
“It is not simply a matter of social justice, it is also a matter of economic efficiency,” said the latest Tory minister sent oop north to tell the restless natives to put more gravy on their chips because a change is going to come.