Half-witted at best, a people-pleaser at worst: step forward, Chris Philp | John Crace

Responding to Shabana Mahmood’s changes to indefinite leave to remain, the shadow home secretary was detached from reality

Better late than never. It had seemed as if some apologies from the prime minister were more sincere than others. The one that he has planned to deliver for Britain’s role in the slave trade at the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Antigua fell on the right side of genuine. There had been no need to make one at that time. Indeed Kemi Badenoch saw it as a sign of weakness. There again, she would refuse to apologise for running someone over on a pedestrian crossing. Somehow it would have turned out to be the victim’s fault.