Chris

The Achilles heel of every lefty activist is they don’t understand how the rules change when you cross the barricades. You can either go shouting revolution and decrying your enemies from the moral safety of the opposition benches, or you can win power, and use it wisely, getting your point across and winning people round by other means. But you can’t be both at the same time.

If Ms Haigh can’t stop herself from virtue-signalling she shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the dispatch box. And if she can’t cope with the reality that being in government means dealing with people you really, really don’t like, she shouldn’t be anywhere near government at all.