I went past parliament last week and saw Angela Rayner. She is one of those politicians you couldn’t miss anyway, but she was also dressed in primary colours and silver shoes, the purest “up yours” outfit imaginable.
It was a couple of hours after a toe-curling exchange on Sky News in which the Conservative MP James Daly, who reported Rayner to Greater Manchester police, was asked by two anchors and Labour’s Chris Bryant what his allegations were. “You wrote to the police,” said Beth Rigby, her voice a delicious cocktail of bafflement and tenacity. “So what did you ask them? Why won’t you say? It’s weird.” “I asked the police to investigate certain matters that were in the public domain,” Daly replied. Who knows why he was so cagey? I suspect it was because, said out loud, it would sound petty and mischievous.
