After 118 days David Lammy has graced his parched readers with a new Substack post on his vanity blog last week. Another Guido victory…
Guido has long been publicly tracking Lammy’s writer’s block. The pressure must have got too intense – the Foreign Secretary has taken time out of his busy schedule deploying last-minute diplomacy on the Chagos deal and managing about 20,000 FCDO civil servants to put up his “Locarno” speech. He’s copy and pasted a boiler plate speech…
A digital copy of the speech itself was put up on the Gov.uk website on the day it was given, a full six days before Lammy bothered to put it on his blog. Subscribers probably feeling a little short-changed…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”