Westminster wars...

+ NEWLY appointed loneliness minister Tracey Crouch has refused to be interviewed by presenter John Humphrys on Radio 4’ s Today programme because he joked about the campaign for equal pay for BBC women.

Crouch’s new role was inspired by murdered Labour MP Jo Cox, who set up the Loneliness Commission. The core ethos of Jo’s campaign — continued by her widower Brendan — is that ‘we have to meet, listen to and engage with people with whom we might disagree, not write them off as deplorables’. Tracey Crouch’s ridiculous LISTENING to the nonstop rantings of aggrieved women on the radio after the Presidents Club exposure, you would think we are a nation of sexually assaulted and brutally suppressed women.

One caller even claimed grandstanding shames the memory of Jo Cox.

+ RECANTING on his predictions of a Brexit catastrophe, a porky David Cameron said ‘it was a mistake, but not a disaster’. Many MPs who lived to regret backing him for the Tory leadership consider his comment a fitting epitaph for Dave himself.

+ LIB DEM leader Vince Cable reminds Donald Trump that the President will ‘never be welcomed’ by his party — so mighty with its 12 MPs — on a state visit to the UK. The American President must be shaking in his boots. men were guilty of ‘subliminal sexism’ where they don’t say or do anything wrong — she just knew that underneath their calm exterior lay a seething misogynist.

The #MeToo brigade will probably want her as Justice Secretary.