Work and pensions secretary was at pains to be as evasive as possible in the morning media round
It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it. And it sure as hell isn’t going to be the person who created the mess. Boris Johnson’s enthusiasm for giving press conferences in his new £2.6m media suite is diminishing by the hour. Yesterday it was Michael Gove’s turn to clean up after Boris with a half-hearted non-denial denial about not having been in the room to hear the prime minister remarks about “letting the bodies pile high”. You can always depend on the Govester to make a bad situation worse when it suits him to cause trouble.
On reflection, No 10 could see that choosing Mikey had been a mistake. What was needed was someone more bland. Someone who could be trusted to send an audience to sleep. Someone who could be guaranteed to know nothing about anything an interviewer was likely to ask. So today it was the turn of the work and pensions secretary, Thérèse Coffey, to be thrown under the bus of the morning media round to explain away the latest twists and turns in the ongoing Tory sleaze and alleged-indifference-to-the-number-of-Covid-deaths sagas.
