A defiant Starmbot has regurgitated the government’s talking points on Iran, warning at the Usdaw union’s conference that the “economic consequences could be with us for some time“.
Luckily he will chair an ’emergency’ Cobra meeting tomorrow (so urgent it can wait at least a day) in which he will be “bringing in people from the Bank of England“. The last time he ‘brought in’ someone from the Bank of England, she held two disastrous Budgets and cried on the front bench…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”