Sacked equalities minister Nia Griffith, who lost her ministerial role in the September reshuffle, has bagged a position on the Women and Equalities Committee. Marking her own homework…
Places are decided by internal party elections. No10 has been consoling sacked ministers by telling them to go for committee spots, which also need approval by the whips. Last week ex-ministers Fleur Anderson, Janet Daby, Justin Madders, Catherine McKinnell, Jeff Smith, Catherine West, and Daniel Zeichner bagged posts. The difference – none of them is covering their previous brief…
The equalities brief is in meltdown as Labour fails to publish guidance on how organisations should provide single-sex spaces, which could be delayed for a year. Now the party has let one of the ministers responsible scrutinise the mess. If Griffith behaves maybe they’ll let her back into government…
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…”