In the new sofa studio of Politics Live Richard Holden and Lisa Nandy exchanged the same usual China blows with both sides blaming each other for the ‘threat’ fiasco. On which Starmer has hoisted his petard by claiming only one civil servant had any involvement with the case whatsoever once he entered government…
At one point Holden was making an impassioned point about Rachel Reeves’ trip to China when Nandy accused him of acting like “an angry man in a pub.” TV debate at its best…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”