Robert Jenrick was pursued by Newsnight’s Nick Watt on his way out of his speech at conference today. He was also pursued by Ex-Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis…
Jenrick answered Watt’s quickfire questions on the way to the Midland Hotel while Maitlis tried to ask her own five times only to be repeatedly ignored. At one point Jenrick paused in the scuffle and said “you two are competing with each other” before again ignoring Maitlis. He’s got his priorities…
Shadow national security minister Alicia Kearns told Times Radio she would have put a precondition on a China trip if she were PM:
“I would have put a precondition that I was not going to go if I was prime minister, unless Jimmy Lai was coming home with me. I would also put a precondition in the six months leading up to the visit that I wanted a reduction in hostile acts against our country. But that’s not what we saw. And actually, in contrast, what we saw was clearly the Chinese Communist Party did put a precondition, which was that the new embassy in London had to be signed off. So why is it okay for China to set preconditions and to make very clear red lines about what they require for a visit, but we go without having put any ourselves?”