Polling just dropped on trust in the Labour government – 59% think it’s fairly or very sleazy, according to YouGov, which will be sobering news to the prime minister (seen as more sleazy than Rishi Sunak by 35% of people), even if a bit puzzling on its own terms. Can you be “fairly” sleazy? I’d say trustworthiness is a binary state, like being pregnant: you either are or you aren’t.
The revelations keep coming: Angela Rayner, already in the spotlight for having borrowed the New York apartment of Lord Alli, was revealed to have bought a bespoke suit for former MP Sam Tarry, with her own money, when she was still going out with him. Sleaze-hounds are asking why it wasn’t disclosed on Tarry’s parliamentary register of interests, when I think the answer is pretty obvious: it was a present from his girlfriend.
