The Express is pushing through with cost-cutting measures. Columnists are the latest victims…
Guido hears Ann Widdecombe, who has been writing her full-page Tuesday column in the Express for years, will not have her contract renewed come February. Gone too will be columnists Fergus Kelly and Jessica Selway…
Rumours abound in SW1 that the Sunday Express in print is not long for this world as Reach PLC continues with “efficiency savings” that have already seen 700 jobs get the chop. Widdecombe, for her part, is going the way of what seems like half the population by starting a new Substack column. Tricky times at Express towers, but would the brand survive otherwise…
Starmer spoke to Nick Robinson for the Today Programme on Polanski’s criticism of the Golders Green police officers:
“I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You’re trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you’ve shot them, there’s nothing left. There’s a guy on the ground, he’s got a rucksack on. And I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking, he’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy…
Now, when I then see Zack Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party.”