Can British politics get any weirder?
First the Labour Party elects a Leader of the Opposition who, in 32 years as a Member of Parliament, has never sat on the Front Bench. Then the Prime Minister is savaged by a biography co-authored by someone who is a principal funder of the PM’s political party.
Amusing though the tales of Cameron’s university days might be, the most serious revelation so far is Lord Ashcroft’s insistence that he told David Cameron of his non-com tax status in 2009 before the General Election the following year. So Ashcroft is accusing Cameron of lying when, in March 2010, Cameron claimed to have only known about the peer’s tax status a month before.
But it seems that Cameron is not the only liar. It is widely reported that Ashcroft promised the then leader of the Conservative Party William Hague that, on receipt of a peerage, he would take up permanent residence in the UK.
At tomorrow’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Corbyn should hit Cameron hard on this issue with a set of sustained questions that do not allow the PM the easy time he had last week.