"Lord Mandelson is just plainly wrong," she told the BBC.
Having had what he plainly regarded as a successful day delivering his autumn statement the other week, George Osborne sounded as though he had woken up with a hangover when he lost his cool on the Today programme and complained bitterly about the BBC's coverage.
Except that the ideal of the gentleman-legislator who cuts backroom deals in the public interest seems plainly an illusion in the age of 24-hour news cycles and constant pressure from interest groups with seemingly unlimited financial and, ultimately, electoral fire-power.
Such critics plainly think Mr Farage is too divisive and unreliable to deliver a majority to get the UK out of Europe in a referendum.
The Hungarians had plainly been a force since they emerged from behind the Iron Curtain to win the Helsinki Olympic tournament in 1952.
Some admire Gove's free-spirited willingness to try out ideas, and then ditch them; his willingness to confess plainly to the Commons that he had gone "a bridge too far" was certainly refreshing.
Put plainly, Scarlets were pretty sore when they announced in March that their young fly-half was on his way.
Abbott's recent comments about the threat of terrorism were plainly directed at the risk of Muslim terrorism.
But what they want most is what they are plainly entitled to have: an acknowledgment from Turkey, and for that matter from the UK, that what happened to their people in 1915 was not a tragedy but a crime.
Plainly the line – almost half a century old now – was picked to show just how long the impacts of fossil fuel burning have been known in the corridors of the highest powers.
It plainly existed for the benefit of the farming industry – it was a way of dumping milk on schools, and no longer had anything to do with the avoidance of rickets – but she became an object of criticism.
