If you hadn’t heard of Rushanara Ali until her resignation yesterday, then good for you. If you still hadn’t until now, even better. With her departure British politics is robbed of one of its most promising minnows.

With Ali’s departure, British politics is robbed of one of its most promising minnows

The former homelessness minister is an absolute standard-issue Starmerite apparatchik. PPE at Oxford, followed by a stint as a Parliamentary researcher, then a fruitful career milking the ‘human rights’ cow for all it was worth. She’d already quietly resigned from her building safety brief when it turned out she had been in receipt of sponsored trips courtesy of Saint-Gobain, one of the firms implicated in the catastrophe at the Grenfell Tower. Once again, Sir Keir’s nose for moral probity

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