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Whenever there is a question session on international trade, the chamber takes on a sour whiskey taste.
Going through the entire hour usually requires taking a couple of antacids through the esophagus.
The reasons for this bitter atmosphere are twofold.
The first is that opposition MPs spend most of their time inciting the government’s trade prospects after Brexit.
Despite protests to the contrary, her gums salivate at the thought that it will all end in disaster. The second reason is that the Secretary of State for International Trade is Liz Truss.
Liz Truss, pictured today, is regarded as a ‘lightweight’ by opponents and ‘not the most agile performer in the Commons,’ writes Henry Deedes.
Opponents taunt Truss.
They consider it light. A funny figure who can’t do the job and all that.
Now, it is true that the Truss is not the most agile performer of Commons.
Joanna Lumley certainly won’t be afraid of losing any lucrative broadcaster jobs when Liz begins collecting her ministerial pension.
Your delivery can be wooden, even clumsy. He has a habit of articulating his words too much, as if addressing a mean uncle.
However, she seems like a capable enough minister every time I look at her.
Yesterday he faced the usual barrage of hysteria over chlorinated chicken, tariffs, border controls and the like.
However, the loudest outcry concerned the government’s proposal to appoint former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to the Board of Trade.
Abbott, for those just out of quarantine, has previously expressed a number of views about women and gays that many consider now old-fashioned.
What irritated Labor banks the most was Abbott’s skeptical attitude towards global warming. Christian Matheson (laboratory, City of Chester) denounced him as a “climate change denier”.
He said that word “denier” like he’d just bitten off a piece of stale Granny Smith.
Last time I looked, harboring doubts about climate change is not a crime.
But judging by the noises of outrage emanating from Matheson’s colleagues, Abbott could very well be a doomed puppy dealer.
Truss accused the Labor Party of being “intolerant of anyone who disagrees with them.”
He noted how he never heard them do any harm when former shadow chancellor John McDonnell once suggested they “lynch” his colleague Esther McVey.
While Truss’s deputy Greg Hands preferred to tell MPs that they were simply lucky to have a former prime minister working for them, his boss was clearly in the mood to take a hit at the Opposition.
Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, pictured with Priti Patel, has been appointed to the Board of Trade, despite having previously expressed a number of views on women and gays that many consider now old-fashioned. .
When Ruth Cadbury (Lab, Brentford and Isleworth) brought up Abbott’s alleged misogyny, she left again.
Truss accused Labor of “utter hypocrisy” preferring to “point out virtues and indulge in tokenism rather than take real steps to improve the lives of women.”
After all, how many female prime ministers had they appointed?
This earned him a mild reprimand from Sir Lindsay Hoyle, who asked him to limit himself to talking about international trade.
Never mind. Truss was happy to have made his point on the record.
A light and welcome relief followed with the usual merry-go-round of members promoting their constituents’ wares.
David Linden (SNP, Glasgow East) blew his bag pipes for the single malt whiskey industry.
Sheryll Murray (South East Cornwall) wanted Truss to do more to help whip Cornish patties around the world.
The most peculiar request came from Kieran Mullan (Con, Crewe and Nantwich), who demanded that export tariffs be lifted on ice cream vans.
Later, House Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg conducted his weekly cleanup session on business issues.
His constituency is home to Whitby Morrison, a ‘world leader’ in Mr. Whippy’s trucks, apparently.
Never let it be said that you don’t learn something from these sessions.
Later, House Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg conducted his weekly cleanup session on business issues.
The Mogg has proven to be a valiant bulletproof vest for the Prime Minister since he entered Downing Street.
Although he may have been exaggerating things a bit when he opined that it was “difficult to imagine a government that works better and more progressive than the one we have now.”
So too when he described Secretary of Education Gavin Williamson as an ‘A * individual and an A * secretary of state.
Not in estimated ratings but in facts. ”
Jacob certainly deserves an A * for loyalty.
