Has Chris Grayling put his foot in it?

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Has Chris Grayling put his foot in it?

By Mark Pack | Mon 23rd February 2009 - 5:02 pm

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The new Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling gave a speech today in which he said,

Labour has had eleven years and they have collectively failed – their musical chairs based system of home secretaries has left Britain a more dangerous, less civilised place to live in.

Now that’s odd. Not only because, as Hopi Sen points out, “Chris Grayling is the third Shadow Home Secretary in the last year” but also because on my calculation, the average term of office of a Labour Home Secretary since 1997 (excluding Jacqui Smith, as she is still in post) has been slightly higher than the average term of office of Conservative Home Secretaries 1979-1997. Ooops.

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2 Comments

Hywel 23rd Feb '09 - 10:25pm

Yes.

Because THAT was the objectionable bit of what Grayling was saying 🙂
Mark Pack 23rd Feb '09 - 10:34pm

Feel free to write a post about the rest of his speech 🙂