Awkward moment between John Cryer and Toby Perkins

 
26 March 2014

An awkward moment between two Labour MPs at Westminster yesterday. Leyton and Wanstead’s John Cryer was speaking about the regulation of taxi firms when one of his party’s younger frontbenchers, Toby Perkins, the MP for Chesterfield, made an intervention. “Good point,” said Cryer.

“I wish I’d thought of that.” Perkins, not a little uncockily, then stood up and said: “That’s why some of us are on the front-bench and some of us aren’t.” It may have been intended as a joke but Left-winger Cryer looked unamused.

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