Ruth Wishart: The case for a second chamber of parliament with teeth

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Ruth Wishart: The case for a second chamber of parliament with teeth
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EVEN Michael Gove at his most sleekit was stumped. Introducing new “guidelines” on extremism, he was uncharacteristically lost for words when…

EVEN Michael Gove at his most sleekit was stumped. Introducing new “guidelines” on extremism, he was uncharacteristically lost for words when asked to describe what that actually was.

All of a piece too with a panicked PM rushing a podium out of Number 10 to tell the nation democracy was at risk from extremists. You bet, Rishi. Just take a look round the Cabinet table, why don’t you. You will have noted, after having ­signally failed to get a single asylum seeker on a plane despite having bunged the ­Rwandan government north of £140m, that our ­cuddly Tory government has now resorted to naked bribery.

As Stephen Flynn observed on last Thursday’s Question Time, Scotland came to that conclusion well-nigh 70 years ago, but keeps getting landed with them thanks to that “precious Union”. As a woman, I’m more than a mite weary that failing to be in a minority of the population has only ensured lifelong discrimination.

It was instructive to see the difference at the women’s Euros that England won, and the previous men’s event. The former had a joyous atmosphere because the ­audience were mainly families having an outing. The latter led to mindless rioting. However, having been on a panel ­listening to evidence from young ­people during a process re-examining the ­Kilbrandon Report, it became clear that for some kids the parents were the problem and the abusers.

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