A Labour colleague and I were walking together along a Commons corridor yesterday evening when we encountered a senior Labour Member whose name had figured prominently in the media commentary last week over the failed putsch. He immediately began talking to my companion about the events of the Parliamentary Labour party meeting that had taken place earlier in the day, mentioning the Prime Minister in highly critical terms.
I offered to leave, to enable them to continue discussing their private grief, but the senior Member said, “No, don’t worry; everyone knows how we feel, anyway.”
Perhaps so, but to speak that way in the presence of an opposition MP indicates the extent to which the Labour party is falling to bits.
