Two former foreign secretaries were yesterday exonerated by the authority which supposedly upholds parliamentary standards, over allegations that they misbehaved offering to sell lobbying services to bogus companies for thousands of pounds per day in a joint sting organised by Channel 4 and the Daily Telegraph. They were told they had done nothing which broke parliamentary rules. Really? Well if that is the case most people will feel that with rules which permit this kind of caper, parliament itself is broken.
To add insult to the injury of astonished voters, the regulator blamed the broadcaster and the newspaper. It is like a repeat of Hutton. No wonder Corbyn got a landslide.