Hacks are busy writing up the guest list for Starmer’s “glitzy event” in St Paul’s Cathedral this evening to close the one-day investment summit. The King and Elton John are due to attend…
What they don’t mention is that the dinner, to be cooked by three Michelin-starred chef Clare Smyth, is being held in a repository for dead bodies. The Crypt at St Paul’s is the only seated dining venue large enough for the delegates. More grave than gold-digging…
The Crypt is usually hired out for about £10,000 and is advertised proudly as “the final resting place of some of the world’s greatest heroes, poets and scientists.” Labour’s skill in optics continues to be on display as it attempts to resurrect UK investment from a place where the dead go to be buried…
Burnham spinning like a wheel in the Commons:
“I will very much say so on the record… It was legitimate. I have always respected the result. I have never questioned its legitimacy. But I am within my rights to point out where foreign actors are looking to interfere in British democracy.”