Keir Starmer at PMQs has defended his decision to give his ex-comms chief Matthew Doyle a peerage despite his links with a convicted sex offender. The excuse might sound familiar…
He said: “Matthew Doyle did not give a full account of his actions.” The ghost of Peter Mandelson just chuckled…
Starmer refused to apologise, added he would “no lessons from the Tories,” and attacked Partygate. Tired…
Badenoch retorted that the PM only cares about violence against women and girls “when he is trying to save his own job” and added: “How dare he criticise us? We’re not the ones stuffing government with hypocrites and paedophile apologists.” Ouch…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”