Prime Minister’s Questions today, with Harriet Harman deputising for the absent Gordon Brown:
Mr. David Jones (Clwyd, West) (Con): The Business Secretary once famously remarked that Labour was intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich. Is the right hon. and learned Lady equally relaxed about how the Prime Minister’s predecessor has decided to go about it?
Ms Harman: We have asked the National Equality Panel to look at how we can ensure that we help social mobility and—[Interruption.]
Mr. Speaker: Order. I want to hear the answer.
Ms Harman: We are determined to ensure that there is social mobility, and one of the important findings of the NEP report is that more unequal societies have less social mobility, which is why we are determined, with Government action, to continue to support policies that spread fairness and equality.
I’m sure that the Rt Hon Tony Blair (Fettes, Oxford and Louis Vuitton) is intensely grateful for the leg-up.
Dear David. A brilliant question, helped by the fact that William had just wiped the floor with her.
Of course she couldn’t answer it, what with jockeying for the Leadership an’ all. You’ve now got to devise a way to make her look good, to keep her muddying the murky swamp of the Labour succession.