The two Eds and the naughty Reverend

Meetings between the disgraced former chairman of the Co-op Bank and Labour could prove embarrassing for the party.

"Whatever you want to say, you can say it with Mr Flowers," says Andrew Rawnsley in The Observer. The tale of the alleged "crystal Methodist" and the Co-operative bank is a "gift that gives to everyone".

For the Tories, it is an opportunity to "try to dirty up" the Labour party by association with the movement that holds its overdraft, gives it donations and sponsors 32 of its MPs to the tune of hundreds of thousands a year "though possibly not for much longer".

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