David Taylor was a highly respected, independent-minded Labour MP who will be missed on both sides of the House.
His death was announced on his website earlier this afternoon. Couldn’t the Times have allowed just a short, decent interval to mark his passing, rather than crassly headlining its website report: Labour faces by-election test after MP death?
Is that not what politics is mostly about these days?
Hardly a humane place to be is it?