So, just when you thought that things couldn’t get any worse for the current government during the Christmas recess, even the home secretary can’t help putting his foot in it.
His jokes about spiking his wife at a Downing Street reception are repugnant, to say the least.
Coming just hours after announcing a crackdown on the crime makes it even worse.
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