Keir Starmer’s joy was obvious at Labour’s battle bus launch in West London on Saturday as he gleefully dispatched Angela Rayner on a 5000 mile tour around Britain, instructing her to hand out millions of pledge cards. Gets Angela out of the way nicely and off any of his own platforms…

While Rayner has been waxing lyrical about the contents of the fridge on the bus on TikTok, a co-conspirator turned the spotlight on previous suppliers of her bandwagon. Last summer, Rayner launched her “Rayner On The Road” tour of northern England in a converted campervan. Her Commons register of interest shows the vehicle was co-funded with a £6,000 donation from Pentland Communications, a lobbying company which largely represents major private house builders including Barratt, Taylor Wimpey and Persimmon. Pentland describes itself as a “planning communications consultancy” specialising in achieving planning permission for its clients…

Rayner accepted the money even as she was attacking private house builders for “wriggling out of their responsibilities” to build affordable homes. If you know who’s paying for her new bus, get in touch…