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The Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill has launched an official inquiry into the leaking of information about Huawei from the National Security Council .



Yesterday various Cabinet ministers who sit on the NSC denied they were responsible for the breaking of trust.



Depending on the thoroughness of Sedwill’s investigation - Tory MPs have called for the police and security services to be called in - then some ministers could now be having sleepless nights.



While no journalist is going to complain about how porous this Cabinet has become the complete breakdown of the normal rules of government should be a cause of concern.



No administration can govern properly when trust has disappeared from around the Cabinet table.

The failure to keep state secrets is yet another gift to Jeremy Corbyn.

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How can the Conservatives claim he is a threat to our country when they are so casual with national security matters?



This is not the only attack line which will no longer work for the Tories .



They can hardly say Corbyn is unfit for office when Theresa May invited in him to try to find a solution to Brexit her government has proved incapable of resolving.



It is hard to argue Labour’s handling of the financial crisis shows they cannot not be trusted to run the economy when you are responsible for the economic consequences of Brexit.



Perhaps they will reheat their argument that Labour will mean higher taxes and more borrowing.



This has some potential but it is less viable when Theresa May has declared an end to austerity and when voters are increasingly angry at the consequences of years of Tory cuts.



There is even less mileage in accusing him of leading a divided party.



The failure to tackle anti-semitism is a weak point for Labour which should have been dealt with (though a similar accusation can be laid at the door of the Tories on Islamaphobia).

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By the far the most potent attack from the Conservatives’ point of view is Corbyn’s credibility as a Prime Minister.



Again, this could change were he up against Boris Johnson, a clown whose greasepaint simply hides a buffoon, at the next election.



Incidentally, the latest register of MP’s interests shows Johnson earned more than £160,000 for making just two speeches.



Figures also show that in his Uxbridge constituency nearly one in four children are classed as being in poverty after housing costs.

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Spain goes to the polls on Sunday.



The outcome is expected to reflect the picture in almost every other mature Western democracy: a fragmentation of opinions means no one party will reach a clear majority.



In Spain they used to call the succession of governments led either by the left’s PSOE or the right’s Partido Popular as “el turno” - the taking of turns.



This two-party grip has been broken by the emergence of the anti-austerity party Podemos and the centre-right Citizens Party.



The elections could also see Vox become the first far right party since the restoration of democracy in 1977 to win seats in the Spanish Parliament.



But should the PSOE’s Pedro Sanchez emerge victorious it will be a small sign of a left revival in Europe after years in the doldrums.



It would take the number of left-wing governments in the EU to seven: Portugal, Malta, Greece, Slovakia, Finland and (as caretaker government) Sweden.



Today's agenda:



The House of Commons is not sitting.



Vince Cable launches the Lib Dem European elections campaign.



Jeremy Hunt holds London summit on Yemen with representatives from the United States, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.



What I am reading:



Rachel Reeves on why the Democrats should elect a female candidate to stand against Donald Trump