Yvette Cooper managed to say ‘let me be clear’ twice, in a couple of minutes during her interview with Nick Robinson on the Today Programme this morning. For seasoned Labour-watchers, the phrase ‘let me be clear’ was one inherited from the grand panjandrum of political deceit – Tony Blair himself – and is almost always an indicator that the person saying is it about to be as unclear as possible. They might as well walk around with the phrase ‘I’m lying’ written on their foreheads in red paint, so obvious an indicator of incoming deceit it is.

If these are the grown ups, then send in the clowns

The Foreign Secretary was on the radio in part to try and explain away Labour’s growing China problem. She took pains to explain how absolutely desperate she’d been to investigate but that it just

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