Former MP and now Labour peer Margret Hodge has been appointed as the new Anti-Corruption Champion, replacing John Penrose, who quit all the way back in 2022. Baroness Hodge will have three core responsibilities:
Guido remembers Hodge not taking too kindly to accusations of tax hypocrisy after defending her family’s 0.01% tax-paying Stemcor back in 2012, claiming her £1.5 million shares were “tiny, tiny, tiny”. An interesting choice…
Speaking on the Labour chaos over the last few weeks, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told The Guardian:
“You call it a sh*tshow, I say it’s unforgivable…It does look to people outside that we’re more interested in ourselves and less interested in preventing chaos. […] We’ve not done enough, and this has got to be the moment of reckoning where we say not just what are we here for, but who are we here for?”