Tories take their pleasures where they can find them in Westminster these days. Which is why the government benches were surprisingly full for an urgent question on Keir Starmer offering Sue Gray a job as chief of staff. It’s not often Conservative MPs get to occupy the moral bump in the road, so at least 50 or so took to the Commons to vent confected hypocritical outrage. The more sensible stayed away. They pick their fights more carefully.
It goes without saying that the MPs who were present were some of the stupidest to have been elected. But beggars can’t be choosers. The government has to play the hand it has been dealt. There was Priti Patel. I could have sworn she had broken the ministerial code on at least one occasion. And then there were the dozens who had defended Owen Paterson’s right to break lobbying rules. Such outstanding pillars of the community.
