With Olly Robbins dropping the bombshell revelation that Number 10 tried to find a top job at the FCDO for Matthew Doyle, here is what Starmer said (0r didn’t say) in the Commons yesterday when asked if Number 10 had tried to ram through any other political appointments at the Foreign Office:
“In relation to the second point of the Honourable Member’s question and any other political appointments, I will have to check on that and get back to him, because I am not across… there are very many appointments made to senior positions, and I will just check that for him.”
Another day in the life of Can’t Recall Keir…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”