Harry Cole, currently political editor of The Sun and formerly of these pixels, will be the paper’s new Editor-at-Large. Based across the pond in DC…
Cole has spent five years as pol ed and will be based in the FOX News Washington DC bureau. He will also front a new evening politics show promising “big name guests, exclusives and fiery debate”…
Cole says: “After covering six PMs, a pandemic, wars and all the political skullduggery of Westminster, it’s a wrench to leave the Lobby after ten years. It’s been an honour to serve the last five in the most fun job in political journalism – but I can’t wait to get stuck into the biggest story on the planet right now for our readers, viewers and listeners.” New pol ed needed…
In Henry Mance’s piece today for the FT, lunching with Nigel Farage:
“Splendido!” Farage says, when the drinks arrive; I suppose it’s a step to European reconciliation. We clink glasses, and he lights the first of two back-to-back Benson & Hedges. A few minutes later, we’re back downstairs. “Are you drinking? Good.” He orders a glass of Sauvignon blanc for each of us — not a bottle, “because it’s Lent” — followed by a bottle of claret, to have with our meal. They say Farage drinks less than he used to. They say a lot of things.”