The Tories are battling over how easy it should be for former MPs to be reselected for the next election. Got to get there first…
Guido hears reports of a fight on the Conservative Party Board between senior MPs and the voluntary party about how to treat them. 1922 Committee chairman Bob Blackman and his allies are fighting for a lighter process while the chairman of candidates is pushing for full reassessment. No special treatment…
It has now been broadly agreed that it will be slightly different, but former MPs will still have to go through a pretty full process. That means no special deals for back door readoption. Good luck…
Local government minister Alison McGovern told LBC that the BBC should apologise to Trump:
“If they’ve made an editorial mistake, then they should apologise. And, more broadly, I think if they’ve made errors, I think the answer to that is better quality journalism, and to invest in that journalism so that we can have the standard of programmes we all want from the BBC.”