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There is a curious, cloth-eared quality to the way in which the Prime Minister refuses to take a point.
The PM refuses to be rancorous. One might as well try to get Bertie Wooster to take a dim view of that beano last night at the Drones Club.
Rayner, standing in for Starmer, insisted in a shocked tone that the absent Prime Minister had consumed champagne and caviar.