It has been a fraught and ill-tempered week in Westminster. And — whether it is
the rumour that Tory backbencher Andrea Leadsom told
George Osborne to “f**k off”, or David Cameron’s dismissal of Ed Miliband as a “complete mug” — most of it has had Europe at its root.
So it is, too, with the latest news of government strife. Iain Duncan Smith, it’s reported, had a ferocious row with the Tory chief whip, Patrick McLoughlin, over the EU referendum . Apparently, he warned that, “If you ever put me in this position again, that’s it”.
As it happens, there is more on IDS’s disgruntlement in Charles Moore’s column for the latest Spectator, out today.
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