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He took me to the opera. I was seven. I’ve still not recovered from the experience. The performers seemed in a foul temper. Hefty women shrieked. Obese men boomed. Ian Whitwham on the culture wars...

High summer. High noon. A showdown. The House of Commons.

Well ‘ard deputy sheriff Dominic Raab confronts deputy Labour leader, Angela Raynor.

Where was she during the rail strikes? Down with the strikers?

Nope.

Down with the pickets?

Nope.

Dom massages his malice.

“She was at the Glyndebourne Music Festival Sipping Champagne, Listening to Opera!”

Yikes! What a rascal!

He bangs on to the inevitable conclusion.

“Champagne socialism is back in the Labour party!”

So there.

He winks. Creepily. Cryptically.

Shouldn’t he be sectioned?

There is much Tory braying.

Does the erring Angela not know her place? Her working class place? Her cultural place? How dare she attend Glyndebourne! Opera! Mozart! The Marriage of Figaro!

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