political football

“I continue to be dismayed about the fact that this is a political football, and it just keeps getting kicked from one side to the other,” Biering said in an interview.

“The railway has essentially been a political football,” he explains.

“I think it’s important that politicians do not use the criminal juistice system as a political football.”

It was of course the Conservatives who passed this particular political football to Labour when they won the general election some two months ago.

This visit, with its sporting conclusion, takes political football to a new level.