A stiff upper lip has never helped people like me — Angela Rayner’s emotion is her strength

It’s January 2021 and the then-health secretary Matt Hancock is on air with the then-Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan. The free school meals fiasco is its height and Morgan has a question for Hancock: does he regret voting against extending free school meals? What follows is more ducking and diving than you’d see in a game of dodgeball. Hancock was clearly told to essentially plead the fifth. I remember thinking: if he owned up to it and expressed a tiny shred of remorse, I’d respect him a little bit more.

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