Starmer has defended embattled Angela Rayner on BBC 5 Live with Matt Chorley. He’s also given her a promotion…
Speaking about how proud he was of her despite the fact that people have been “briefing against her and talking her down” for a long time – including his team before their reconciliation – he described Rayner as “an incredible Prime Minister, an incredible person.” Vote of confidence there…
Starmer made sure to refer to her as Deputy PM a quite a few times after that. Asked if he would still be leading Labour into the election, Starmer said “definitely.” Some Labour honchos may have a thing or two to say about that…
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…”