As borrowing costs soar and the pound crashes, all eyes are on Rachel Reeves with growing calls for her resignation. Today Keir Starmer faced the simple question of whether Reeves would still be Chancellor at the next election. Starmer refused to answer not once, but twice…
Instead of committing to keeping his Chancellor on, Starmer offered the vague reassurance that “she has my full confidence” whilst insisting the government’s fiscal rules wouldn’t be broken, but stopped short of ruling out tax hikes or spending cuts. A reminder that Starmer’s vowed to keep David Lammy as Foreign Secretary for the remainder of this Parliament. Reeves running on borrowed time…
UPDATE: Downing Street now says Starmer is looking forward to working with Reeves as Chancellor for “the whole of this parliament”. Extending the same guarantee to Rachel from accounts as he did to Lammy…
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…”