Exit Failing Grayling: the £3bn master of disaster bows out

Chris Grayling has yet to find a job he can’t do badly. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/REX/ShutterstockStop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. A low threnody emanated from the Commons benches as MPs gathered for transport questions to say goodbye to one of their finest. This was to be Chris Grayling’s final appearance as a minister – not even his closest friends expect him to continue to fail upwards in a Boris Johnson government – and the mourners were out in force t