What does Jon Mendelsohn know? Enough, it seems, to keep his job. There was muffled laughter in the house when Brown said a “former bishop of Oxford” would look into all this. Who else? Graham Norton? Cameron did well venting incredulity that Brown would use the old Blair-style inquiry device to kick this into the long grass.
Good to see Brown had Harman beside him. Dumping on her seemed cowardly. Perhaps, he has finally decided that he needs to start standing up for his Cabinet rather than using them as human shields.
Cameron was right about 155 days of incompetence and asking if Brown was simply not up for the job (today’s TV soundbite). Brown tried to ignore the prolonged Tory roar that followed and start speaking, but it didn’t die down and the speaker had him sit down and start again.
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