Another stunning performance from ‘the real Foreign Secretary’ and Chagos sellout architect Jonathan Powell is revealed in The Guardian this afternoon. It has emerged Starmer’s National Security Advisor attended denuclearisation talks in Geneva in February between the Americans and Iranians. What did he have to offer?
Not much by the sounds of it: “Powell thought progress had been made in Geneva and that the deal proposed by Iran was “surprising”, according to sources.” Just days later the US began to bomb Iran…
Powell’s proximity to the talks will raise further questions about why Starmer took so long to act when war broke out. His own NSA was around the table, yet HMS Dragon is still not any further than Gibraltar…
In Henry Mance’s piece today for the FT, lunching with Nigel Farage:
“Splendido!” Farage says, when the drinks arrive; I suppose it’s a step to European reconciliation. We clink glasses, and he lights the first of two back-to-back Benson & Hedges. A few minutes later, we’re back downstairs. “Are you drinking? Good.” He orders a glass of Sauvignon blanc for each of us — not a bottle, “because it’s Lent” — followed by a bottle of claret, to have with our meal. They say Farage drinks less than he used to. They say a lot of things.”