Westminster Wars

AFTER Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott ‘misspoke’ — ie proved she can barely count to ten — over the cost of 10,000 new police, critics said she was not fit for office. I suppose we should be grateful she’s not Shadow Chancellor.

ABBOTT’S car crash interview unfolded on the talk radio station LBC because its savvy presenter Nick Ferrari knows when a politician is in trouble, and thus when to shut up and let silence encourage his victim to blunder on into the mire. A lesson for the constantly haranguing and interrupting presenters on BBC radio?

FOLLOWING the local election results, Theresa May looks set for an even greater landslide than expected. She could even break Tony Blair’s record of 101 female MPs — providing an object lesson for the sisterhood of the Left who like to think that they are the only real feminists.

Blair’s Babes got there through all-women shortlists: May’s female MPs will have fought their own battles, as she did. They have been dubbed May’s Maidens. But if they are forged in her image, they will be warrior queens.

THE EU’s Brexit divorce negotiator, Michel Barnier, says the UK must pay the EU an £85 billion ‘settlement’, or the fragile bloc will crumble and not be able to live in the manner to which it has become accustomed.

Like most partners who don’t bring home the bacon, the EU seems to expect a meal-ticket for life. As any divorcee knows, post- separation you both have to live within your means.