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…
Burnham confirms he spoke to Trump last night about drilling in the North Sea:
“I indicated in the phone call that we had a week last Monday that I would take a pragmatic approach when it comes to the North Sea, and that is my intention as we go forward from here. There is a resource there. When people are struggling, we can’t ignore that. Hence, me indicating that to the president…”