After Guido first reported the departure of Downing Street’s infrastructure SpAd Nick Williams in a policy unit shake-up the ex-SpAd has taken to The Times to swing his bat. Williams, previously a Treasury civil servant before moving to become Labour’s Head of Economic Policy, says:
Williams says the fiscal rules are “responsible and fair” and that Labour can and will raise taxes further without breaking its manifesto promises to pay for defence and the cuts to migration. That sound you can hear is the pitch being firmly rolled…
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…”