Point-scoring and addled advice
Right-wing Labour MPs John Mann, Chris Leslie, and Mike Gapes have rushed to the internet, TV, and the press to score points against Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell. McDonnell said just before Labour Party conference that Labour would vote for the Tories' "fiscal charter", on the grounds that it has so many loopholes for running deficits that it carries little weight, and voting against it would help the Tories brand Labour as over-spenders. On Monday 12 October McDonnell, rightly we think, reversed his position and said Labour would vote against the "charter". Mann, of all people, is now...