Moles tell Guido that Badenoch’s former strategy director Rachel Maclean is leaving CCHQ and LOTO for good. The Tories briefed that she would take on a new position after Henry Newman took over the LOTO operation at the Shadow reshuffle. Hasn’t occurred…
Guido hears Maclean will stay on the candidates committee with recently-appointed Badenoch ally Bernard Jenkin. They are joined by Clare Hambro and her appointed vice-chairman the remainer Elizabeth Gibson. More on candidates ‘reforms’ as they happen…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”