Valerie Vaz’s month goes from bad to worse. The Labour MP was one of just two frontbenchers sacked by Keir Starmer a fortnight ago in the wake of the party’s Hartlepool defeat. The surprise move prompted political journalists to joke that sacking Vaz as shadow leader of the House had been just the response red wall voters were demanding.
But Vaz appears to have done her career little good today after a bizarre moment on Politics Live this afternoon. The MP decided that this was the moment to speculate about the state of Boris Johnson’s health during his Covid fight at the beginning of April 2020, telling baffled panelists that the Prime Minister wasn’t as ill in intensive care as the public were led to believe.
Her intervention was all the more bizarre given that the topic of conversation was about Dominic Cummings who is due to give evidence to parliament on Wednesday. Vaz
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