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We may have been in Easter recess the past couple of weeks, but on both sides of the party divide, there were those who did not get a rest from politics.
MP William Wragg undoubtedly had a dysfunctional week as the man at the centre of the Westminster honeytrap scandal.
He resigned the Conservative party whip as some colleagues looked on with a mixture of bemusement and anger at Number 10’s handling of the whole sorry affair.
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Meanwhile, on the Labour side, deputy leader Angela Rayner can’t seem to shake off or shut down the persistent questions about whether she paid the right amount of tax when she sold her council house nearly a decade ago.
She insists she has done nothing wrong while there are Conservatives looking to weaponise the issue in this election year – with at least one local Tory councillor and other protesters this week hounding her on a visit to Teesside, with banners dubbing her a “tax dodger” in the hope it will stick.
This week in Electoral Dysfunction, Jess, Ruth and I chew over both the substance and the politics of these difficult…
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