The Mail ran a story today claiming entrepreneur Matthew Freud entertained Angela Rayner at his Notting Hill house recently. An unlikely partnership…
Fleet Street observers speculate it has something to do with Freud’s fractured link to Rupert Murdoch. He was married to Rupert’s daughter Elisabeth until 2014 – they’re now divorced….
Labour figures on the left have long campaigned/threatened to launch Leveson 2 – regulations aimed at severely restricting press freedom. Freud knows the consequences for Fleet Street – has the Mail been duped into running a story that is more about the Press being imperilled than it seems to realise…
Rayner is gearing up for her run at No10. Only the taxman stands in her way…
Douglas Alexander – a friend of Starmer’s – was asked on Sky News if the PM will be in post at the next election. He wasn’t so sure himself:
“I think he will. There are no certainties but of course I think he will lead and I think he should because, frankly, on the biggest call in this parliament he’s exercised the right judgment, which is to keep us out of someone else’s war.”