 Sunak will say: 'He has apologised for his error so let's draw a line under it.' But anyway, back to Williamson. His defenders this week assured us that it was just the rough-and-tumb){kind=link}
Gavin Williamson didn’t even have a job, he was Minister Without Portfolio â presumably because, in any efficient government, you need someone to mop up the awkward jobs, writes Mark Steel
The excitement is over. Now we have a stable government at last. You can tell because there’s only been one minister resigning in disgrace this week.
This time, it was Gavin Williamson who tried to hang on as all he did was tell people to “slit their throats”.
He has now had to resign under three different Prime Ministers. Soon, we might go a whole 10 days, until Suella Braverman resigns after footage emerges of her organising an illegal dog fighting weekend. She’ll issue a statement, saying: “This took place entirely in my spare time and I’ve already apologised for breeding a ferocious Rottweiler that mauled 150 people in Maidstone.”
Two weeks later, Grant Shapps will come under fire for running a crystal meth lab in the Department of Energy. He’ll tell us he didn’t actually break the rules because there is no specific mention of crack production in the MPs’ handbook. He accepts he may have stretched “the spirit of the guidelines” but now we should just forget it and move on.