Peter Hoskin

How not to calm the bullying row

Phil Woolas, the immigration minister, probably thought he was being helpful to Gordon Brown by describing Christine Pratt as:

“this prat of a woman down in – where’s she from, Swindon?”

But, erm, he wasn’t.

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