Kwarteng follows dirty work at Treasury with bonus cap farce

After sacking the his top official, the new chancellor's next act was politically crass and insensitive. It does not bode well

One of the themes of the coverage of our late Queen's life has been what a good sense of humour she had. But I did not see any references to the day it fell to her to make her speech at the opening of parliament on 21 June 2017.

On that day her monarchical duty, in the Queen's speech, was to outline the proposed legislation that would prepare the UK for its departure from the European Union.