yesterday :
“Even if only a small number of people were implicated, these allegations have to be taken extremely seriously and investigated ruthlessly and openly.”
Boris last year :
“a load of codswallop cooked up by the Labour Party”
“a song and dance about nothing”
“whipped up by the Guardian and the Labour Party.”
(Hat-tip: Adam Bienkov )
Mark Ferguson
Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015.
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