Failing Grayling invaluably diverts attention from cabinet incompetence

Chris Grayling in January. On the day Labour tabled two urgent questions about the transport secretary, he was not to be seen in parliament. Photograph: Jack Taylor/Getty ImagesIt is almost three years ago to the day that I first used the phrase Failing Grayling. A nickname for Chris Grayling that I have gone on to use with increasing frequency as his disasters have magnified exponentially. Now Failing Grayling has not just become common parlance across the whole country, it has gone internation