Skills Minister Jacqui Smith lent some lukewarm support to Richard Hermer on LBC this morning after yesterday’s robust comments from Labour peer Maurice Glasman:
“One of the things about the House of Lords is that people don’t tend to sort of get into scraps like that. But Lord Hermer can look after himself. He’s the Attorney General of the government. His job is to provide the sort of legal backing and advice for ministers like me to get on with my job. And I think we’ll all be doing that today.”
Yesterday afternoon Downing Street refused to say Hermer would be in post at the next election, saying they are “obviously not going to get into going through every member of the Cabinet.” Briefings against the Attorney General from inside government are beginning to ramp up…
Downing Street has guaranteed the positions of David Lammy and Rachel Reeves for the duration of the parliament when they were subject to press attention. No such protection for Starmer’s mate…
As the United States ‘gets real’ about which states are on its side and which aren’t Guido has revealed that Hermer doesn’t even believe the Special Relationship exists. With Starmer leaving the door open for a future sacking the view of some insiders is that ‘unbearable‘ Hermer is not long for the SW1 world…
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…”