Monty Python and the British Government

CHRIS STEPHEN WRITES: Keir Starmer promised sobriety after Tory chaos. Instead, it has become a farce of sackings, scandals, and squandered credibility.

By Chris Stephen

There’s more than a touch of Monty Python in the sacking of Britain’s deputy prime minister Angela Rayner — the latest, and perhaps most farcical, scandal to hit an already scandal-plagued government. For starters, Rayner was also Britain’s housing minister when she was sacked after admitting to unknowingly cheating the taxman out of £40…