...and then there's the Mail.

No, I don’t usually write two posts in a day, but these are interesting times. Less than six hours after I wrote the previous blogpost about the Partygate hearing I saw the front page of the Daily Mail. Sarah Vine, amazingly, didn’t watch the same footage that I did. :

“Harman’s face was thunder. Boris was as agile as a cat.” Really? Was Harman looking grim because she’s just ugly that way, or was she anxious about an abuse of parliamentary procedure?

Vine doesn’t say, but her conclusion is that there’s nothing to see here, just two opposing sides who were never going to agree. “After four nit-picking hours, had a single mind been changed?” Which just happened to be the identical conclusion reached by a BBC reporter yesterday, dismissing Chris Bryant’s comments on the impressive performance of the Privileges Committee. It’s long been an aim of this government to get the BBC and Daily Mail singing from the same hymn sheet, but I can’t share their enthusiasm for the success of this project.