Labour has managed to find enough cash behind the sofa to boost the budget of the Office for Equality and Opportunity – the Cabinet Office department responsible for “leading on equality policy, including women, race, LGBT+, and disability equality.” It’s gone up by 9.3%…
In a written response to Mike Wood, Labour admitted that the Office’s overall budget has increased from £16.2m in 2024-25 to £17.7m in 2025-26. Guido is old enough to remember that Reeves only pledged to increase departments’ day-to-day spending by 3.3%. Nearly triple that going towards the equality drive…
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.”