Say what you like about Chris Grayling – and I’m about to – but his face at least has the decency to “get it”. No matter what bullish self-justification is coming out of the transport secretary’s mouth, the face knows the truth. Look at literally any photo of Chris Grayling – honestly, go to Google Images now – and you will see the eyes of a man whose inner monologue is telling him, right at that second, that this one was a follow-through. Now it’s just a question of butching it out till he’s off-camera.
As I write this, Chris is on a hat-trick. On the very morning it emerged that Grayling’s probation reforms from his era as justice secretary will cost the taxpayer at least £171m, it also emerged that the government has been forced to pay £33m to Eurotunnel over his no-deal Brexit ferry fiasco. By the time I have finished typing, Chris could have lost a battle of wits with the A358, or de-invented trains. If you want to put how expensive Chris Grayling is into some kind of meaningful perspective, he’s cost more than new Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers’ entire transfer budget.
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