French President Macron and Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis are on Cyprus to visit troops. The Brits have two bases on Cyprus, Starmer has spent the morning in a community centre…
No10 was asked by journalists at the daily briefing about the PM’s absence:
“The Prime Minister has set out our unwavering support for Cyprus and its security… We are demonstrating that in action, through the additional defensive capability we’ve deployed to Cyprus…”
The one time it would actually be worth hopping on the government private jet…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”