Sky’s Sophy Ridge is a thoughtful and formidable interviewer, as Treasury Minister James Murray discovered on Monday evening. The Labour MP, who seems a decent sort of chap, was doing his best to defend his government’s screeching and humiliating u-turn on cuts to winter fuel payments, claiming – in the words of the Prime Minister and Chancellor – that they were able to abandon this unpopular policy because they’ve turned around the British economy.

Ridge, demonstrating more patience than I’d have been able to........

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