One must say this for the Home Secretary, she is a Parliamentary Pugilist. While the general demeanour of the government in which she serves has a Sir Robin the Chickenhearted attitude to parliamentary spats (one can imagine the adenoidal cry of ‘Run Away’ ricocheting around No. 10 every Wednesday), Shabana Mahmood seems to enjoy a fight with all and sundry.

Nobody epitomises the arrogance and intellectual expiration of the Labour party better than Stella Creasy

She had fun at the despatch box earlier this week, trolling Green MPs into lengthy tantrums. There was unfinished business for the Home Secretary from one particular bout. Step forward Max Wilkinson, the smarmy Lib Dem spokesperson who has the air of a Hare Krishna, radicalised by excessive lentil consumption. On Monday he snapped at Mahmood after her statement, condemning her ‘immoderate........

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