Lou Haigh has been handed a government job. Won’t stop her leadership ambitions…
It was announced in parliament late yesterday afternoon:
“The Rt. Hon. Member for Sheffield Heeley (Louise Haigh MP) has been appointed as a full representative of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in place of the Hon. Member for High Peak (Jon Pearce MP).”
Haigh gets to go abroad to represent the UK at meetings of the assembly with expenses covered. Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel tells Guido it’s “an insult to the taxpayers who will pay for her travel – and to the public who are being taken for fools.“ Can practice her speechmaking skills…
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”