With the PM going to war with the health unions while the service is falling apart, perhaps not
On Tuesday, Grant Shapps managed to remove Boris Johnson from a photo taken in an aircraft hangar. No surprise there. Rishi Sunak has been doing his best to eradicate Boris from the Tory party. And The Convict has been working night and day to destroy any evidence of his involvement at parties during lockdown. What goes around, comes around.
Come Wednesday, the nimble Shapps had airbrushed himself out of prime minister’s questions to hotfoot it to the Middle East. After taking the heat for the government’s pointless new strike laws in the Commons the day before, he reckoned he was due some R&R. Time to distance himself from the scene of the crime. Maybe return in a week or two when the strikes had been resolved. Or not.
