Tuesday 8 November.
Another Westminster politician resigns in disgrace. Gavin Williamson had a controversial political career after working for a doubling-glazing business. That would have given plenty of ammunition for political opponents. He might have risen above the taunts of being a double-glazing salesman. But he didn’t. Maybe it also shaped his career. He became an enforcer of party disciple, appointed by Theresa May, one of the hard bunch know as the whips. The archaic language may have come from the days when Parliament was familiar with sport of fox hunting, with members of the servant classes whipping the dogs into action.
The language persisted, as well as a love of fox hunting, in the Tory party. Gavin was ideal material selected from the servile but ambitious lower classes...
