For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy David Blunkett, education secretary, home …
As the celebrated 19th-century politician and historian Thomas B Macaulay famously put it: “We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodic fits of morality.” The populace, in other words, ironically hypocritical, asks rather more of its rulers than it does of itself. Mr Jenrick has refused to attend the Commons to answer an …
