Eagle-eyed co-conspirators may have spotted that Starmer’s tech failed at his short speech this morning. As he was launching… London Tech Week…
The PM’s teleprompter clearly failed and he was forced to riff for a couple of minutes about how great it was to see everyone and how many “microseconds faster” AI is than existing systems in medical tech. Eventually an aide rushed to the podium with a paper copy of his speech to put the audience out of their misery. Write your own jokes…
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.”