CALLED TO ORDURE
WHEN ministers use the adjective “vile”, it can be a sign they are blustering. Keir Starmer always uses it when discussing people-smugglers. And home secretary Yvette Cooper kept blurting it out in TV interviews after the government downplayed local child-rape inquiries.
Five new government-backed local inquiries, which could have made life jumpy for Labour in some northern England councils, were promised in January only after Elon Musk accused the prime minister of two-tier justice. Musk was at his noisiest back then. With the Tesla billionaire now less prominent and Donald Trump’s White House distracted by tariffs, Cooper did her reverse-ferret.