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…
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”