Alex Massie Alex Massie

Lessons in How Politics Works: Chris Huhne Edition

Presumably Chris Huhne didn’t send this Tweet either?

Clearly this was supposed to be a private message text message sent to some lobby hack, presumably with Huhne complaining about George Osborne or something like that.

It’s getting to the stage where it’s more embarrassing – that is pitifully humiliating – to keep Huhne hanging around in the cabinet than it would be to send him off into the wilderness of the Lib Dem backbenches.

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