Labour’s urgent question on the ministerial code comes to nothing in Mordaunt’s mist of misdirection
It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. A slam dunk of an urgent question on the enforcement of the ministerial code and publication of the register of ministers’ interests for Angela Rayner’s first outing at the despatch box since being given three promotions just hours after being sacked for her part in Labour’s poor results in the local elections? What better way to make a name for herself in her new jobs than by getting the opposition benches fully behind her with a nice bit of Tory sleaze?
Only it didn’t quite work out as planned. Not only were there just a handful of Labour MPs in the chamber, the Tory backbenchers had turned up – socially distanced – mob-handed to see off any potential threats to their party’s reputation. It turned out that the best way to unite the Conservatives was to accuse them of being on the take.
