TO suggest that Boris Johnson has debating skills is laughable by itself. You only have to listen to his bubbling and “umming” and “erring” to know he hasn’t a clue when he finds himself defending against opposition parliamentary attacks on his Tory policies etc.
But to qualify any of his alleged debating skills as being a development of Oxford Union debating training surely must be an insult to that esteemed debating society.
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Angela Rayner is one of those traditional parliamentarians who, through her working-class roots (to which I myself hold dearly) has come up through the ranks to where she is today – unlike most of the UK Government, who swear by absolute entitlement to anything by way of long tradition and loadsamoney, inherited in the main and increasingly swindled through position.
Good luck to Angela Rayner in her political career. I would hope she might one day lead the English Labour Party. She certainly has the debating skills to hold the Tory government to account any day of the week.
Alan Magnus-Bennett
Fife
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