Labour’s loved-up golden child, Chuka Umunna, proudly announced his minimal promotion via Twitter earlier. He’s going to join the Shadow Business team, but Guido was more intrigued by who Miliband chose to replace him as his bag-carrying  Parliamentary Private Secretary. Michael Dugher may be a member of the new intake, but he’s hardly new to the scene…

From starting out as a lobbyist, he worked his way through various government departments until he ended up in Brown’s bunker. Dugher was the Prime Mentalist’s chief political spokesman. He was there in all those dark days alongside the two Eds, working out how to spin disaster after disaster. So much for the “new generation”.

UPDATE: Danny Finkelstein observes that this is less of a promotion for Chuka and more of a shoring up of his private office with someone who has experience defending a beleagured bunker from a restless PLP. Here is what Brillo thought of the golden child:

It was the “Sun Wot Lost It” in court earlier, but LibDem MP John Hemming has just blown Ryan “CTB” Gigg’s privacy injunction out of the water.

Great PR for Schillings, tomorrow their client will be plastered across the front pages of every single national newspaper. Form an orderly queue for Schillings services celebs, they can do for you what they did for Giggs…

UPDATE: Full legal judgement originally made by Mr Justice Eady after hearings on the 14 & 20 April 2011 can be found here.

UPDATE II: In all its technicolor glory:

Video via the indispensable Liar Politicians

They say life begins at forty, but Guido reckons George Osborne’s birthday today won’t be as much fun as when he was twenty. He still has one vice these days – orange jelly…

Lord Tebbit passes judgement on Chris Huhne:

“It was even worse when Mr Huhne made a public plea that his former wife should refrain from such allegations in the interest of their children. What heart-warming concern from a man who cared so much for his children that he dumped their mother to clamber into bed with a bisexual lady who was in a civil partnership with another lady.”

Never one to miss a trick in public, as well as working things below the radar, Alex Salmond certainly looked and sounded smug this morning. He has been quick out of the blocks to defend the Sunday Herald’s actions. On the Today program he said any “inglish” attempt to go after the paper would be “extremely foolish”. “It looks to me like English law and English injunctions are increasingly impractical in the modern world” He went on to mock the idea that English law “should pertain across the planet”.

Ryan Giggs should demand a refund after someone at Schillings, supposedly market leaders, forgot to file the papers in a Scottish court as well. The blunder has certainly done wonders for the SNP cause. The Sunday Herald, known for their close links to the party, have given the First Minister a gift this morning. The road to freedom is going to be one of small steps, and the English courts making Scotland seem like the badlands could certainly be considered one.  Guido can’t help but wonder, was there any communication between the paper and the First Minister’s people before that front page went to print?

Moneygall is a two-hour trek from Wexford by road, but doable in a helicopter, c’mon down…

With a little help from Chris Bryant and Brian Paddick, Prezza has just won the right to a Judicial Review into the Met’s handling of the phone hacking saga. The court heard he’d had his voicemail accessed some forty-four times. Just when the Screws thought they had started to clear up the mess, with their £100,000 payout benchmark set, it’s all going to drag on for months more. Guido remembers from his days pursuing Jacqui Smith that the process is extremely pricey, he’d be intrigued to know who will be paying for all this?

Another trip to the Money Supermarket required?