According to the FT (which admittedly has its own issues at the moment), Starmer plans to buy off Sadiq Khan’s loyalty with a peerage after the local elections. The same local elections in which Labour expects a walloping…
Starmer has already appointed more peers than his last four predecessors. There is even talk of giving Khan a Cabinet role to keep him happy. Of course, if Khan accepts it he’ll be out of play for any leadership vacancy. No offer to Andy Burnham yet, unless he turned it down…
The day after Starmer U-turned and refused to blame Trump for the war Rachel Reeves told the Mirror:
“Obviously no sensible person is a supporter of the Iranian regime, but to start a conflict without being clear what the objectives are and not being clear about how you are going to get out of it, I do think that is a folly and it is one that is affecting families here in the UK but also families in the US and around the world.”