Exclusive: Chancellor Philip Hammond took personal stake in food technology company months before it won share of £560,000 Government contract
The opposition are going to play this one for all it is worth. Hammond was always a dumb choice for Chancellor. In the old "honourable" days this would have been an instant resignation matter, but they will try to ride it out.
Had GOD* not been banned from this parish a couple of years ago he might have bellowed:
"MANY MOONS AGO, BILLIONS OF YEARS ... MY AR*SE!!! IT ONLY TOOK ME A WEEK AND, AND, AND THAT INCLUDED A DAY OFF WHEN I WATCHED THE TOON ON MATCH OF THE DAY 2."
* the mods excommunicated him.