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Cautioned not to talk about the under-pressure peer, Angela Rayner delivered a bizarre dance-around-the-subject Commons performance

RECOGNITION for an overlooked Darlington air hero is going to be raised in the House of Commons this week by the town’s MP.

And it's one of those days where we've got loads of bits of papers, and booklets and post—it notes with numbers written on them. because we've had the autumn statement, which is the sequel to the mini budget, but we've got a new chancellor, a whole new load of policies. days like this, i think there's kind of like the big picture, and then there's, like, the hundred things that they announce that make up the big picture. why don't you do the big picture? so the big picture is we are less than eight weeks on from that mini budget that brought down liz truss and kwasi kwarteng, the then chance...

Well, there you have it.

HENRY DEEDES: One minute Rishi Sunak's getting his ego stroked by the big boys at Cop27. The next, he's back in the Commons clearing up the trails of snail slime left by Sir Gavin Williamson.