Philip Hammond damns the Maybot with faint praise

The chancellor didn’t skewer the PM with the reckless abandon of his predecessor, but he was equally devastatingPhilip Hammond blinked uneasily. He doesn’t cope well with daylight at the best of times, and certainly not after a prolonged period of darkness. But with the empathy update of the Maybot still experiencing teething problems – her handlers are still trying to work out if she was decommissioned entirely – someone from the Conservative front bench had to be sent o