Decca Aitkenhead has a history of producing revelatory August interviews that make tricky reading for the Labour leadership. Her 2008 interview with Alistair Darling involved the journalist following him around during the August recess and unleashed the ‘forces of hell’ against the then Chancellor when it was published.
Her interview with Tom Watson in today’s Guardian fits in with that tradition. Watson argues that there is no case for Unite to answer over Falkirk:
Watson thinks on all three counts his party got it wrong.
“I thought it was silly to report the allegations to the police, bordering on wasting police time.” The whole affair, he insists, is “a storm in a teacup”, since neither Murphy nor Unite did anything wrong. No one in Falkirk was signed up to Labour without their consent.
Is he saying the entire scandal never happened? “I am.
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