Funereal TIG launch distracts from Grayling's latest humiliation

Also this week: Labour mayoral candidate’s disastrous interview and the thrilling return of TutankhamunThere had been so much speculation that had come to nothing in recent weeks about Labour and Tory MPs resigning the whip to form a new party that I was rather wrong-footed to get an email at 8am saying it was actually happening on the Labour side and I needed to be in central London in the next hour. The launch was a curious affair at a rented office space in Etc Venues – not quite