Brussels kept tight-lipped for over a week while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was laid up in hospital with pneumonia. Only now after she’s been discharged and is back at home has her spokesperson admitted the truth about the severity of her illness…
Von der Leyen’s pneumonia forced delays to a major piece of her economic agenda and pushed back a key meeting of the college of Commissioners in Poland. Throughout her hospital stay officials dodged questions insisting there was “no update” on her condition. The hush-hush handling over the health of the EU’s most powerful leader raising more eyebrows over Brussels’ lack of transparency…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”