There will be lots of movement over in the Parliamentary Press Gallery in the next few weeks.
The Express’s Christian Calgie (formerly of these pixels) is off to the Mail as Senior Political Editor-at-Large, working mainly on the daily paper and occasionally moonlighting for the Mail on Sunday.
Ex-CCHQ press officer Aaron Newbury, who joined the Express as a full-time reporter in January, has been promoted to the paper’s Lobby team as Political Correspondent.
The Spectator has also gone on a hiring spree, picking up The Sun’s Noa Hoffman as its new Political Correspondent and ConservativeHome’s Tali Fraser as a Writer-at-Large. There is also speculation that a vacancy may appear at a certain broadsheet’s political editor rank soon…
Lucy Powell on LBC, asked by Tom Swarbrick for her reaction to Labour MP Samantha Niblett’s call for a ‘summer of sex’ debate in Parliament: “I personally don’t own any sex toys, but each to their own… I’m not really sure that’s the right place for it, no.”