Has the Labour party finally found its answer to Margaret Thatcher? Shabana Mahmood’s withering response to Lib Dem MP Max Wilkinson’s po-faced complaint about her language in the asylum debate this week must rank as the most devastating, and justified, playing of the race card in recent parliamentary history. Opposition to using every legal means to stop the boats, she implied, is a kind of luxury belief enjoyed only by those who aren’t at risk of being called a ‘F***ing P***’ in the street.

Has the Labour party finally found its answer to Margaret Thatcher?

Turning the tables on the racial justice panjandrums on her own side by citing her personal experience of racial abuse felt very Thatcher vs the wets. So, too, did Mahmood’s combination of personal conviction and plain, jargon-fre

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