Tory leadership contender Tom Tugendhat is pushing the old 'Labour's union paymasters' line. Better a party supported by the voluntary donations of working people than investment bankers, racist IT bosses, hedge fund managers and Russian oligarchs.

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Is the woman who literally ate an ostrich arsehole on television while still an MP best placed to lecture Angela Rayner on 'the dignity of her office'?

I'm so old, I remember when Labour MPs tried to get constituents allocated with a council flat instead of renting them substandard housing

A prime minister spending six lads' weekends with the KGB in a castle in Perugia is rather more concerning than a deputy prime minister raving in Ibiza on her summer hols. Tell me I'm wrong.

Bosses love 'dynamic pricing' for gig tickets, flights, Uber rides and AirBnB. But they only give us 'static wages' to pay for them.

Laura Trott describes Badenoch as 'the new Thatcher'. But another decade of mass unemployment, deindustrialisation and the destruction of the welfare state is the last thing Britain needs.

Remember when Badenoch said Britain was in trade talks with Canada and the Canadian high commissioner to the UK confirmed it wasn't?

All six Tory leadership contenders have pledged to fight VAT on private schools. Not one of them has promised more money for state schools. And there you have it.

If people like Nadhim Zahawi actually paid taxes, more could be done for rough sleepers

The man who charged the central heating bill for his horses' stables to the taxpayer is moved by the plight of the homeless

Nadhim Zahawi was part of a government that wanted to criminalise rough sleeping

Four and five year prison sentences for Just Stop Oil protestors. Let's see the punishment for those who knowingly fitted flammable cladding to Grenfell Tower.

People are sleeping rough on the streets of Mayfair because society is run in the interests of people who own imposing houses on the streets of Mayfair

'I have changed my schedule to fit this in, but I"m missing important lunches to do it,' Tory fire safety minister Eric Pickles told the Grenfell Inquiry. Obviously one can only apologise for any inconvenience.

Potential charges that could arise from Grenfell include corporate manslaughter, gross negligence manslaughter, perverting the course of justice and misconduct in public office. Throw the book at them.

If you want the case for abolition of the House of Lords in a nutshell, it's Michelle Mone, Shaun Bailey, Ben Houchen and Evgeny Lebedev. And Charlotte Owen.

Don't forget that Grenfell Tower was only fitted with cladding in the first place because it was considered an eyesore for the wealthier residents of Kensington & Chelsea, Britain's richest borough