Labour’s shadow international trade secretary, Barry Gardiner, is under fire for tweeting “never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake” in response to a tweet from a Labour party activist and former leader of Camden Council despairing at the non-response from the Opposition to the sound of silence emanating from her party.
It’s a surprising unforced error from Gardiner. One of the things that the leader’s office like about him is that, unlike most of the Shadow Cabinet, he has the experience and the confidence to know when not to accept the premise of a question and to move onto something else, expertise he would have done well to make use of here. The phrase looks likely to be repeated with wearying regularity at Labour party conference by pro-European campaigners who think that the party’s current stance is a dereliction of duty for the Opposition party.
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