Ben Riley-Smith has been appointed Political Editor of the Sunday Times, starting in September. Formerly the Telegraph’s Political Editor and later its Chief Political Commentator…
Riley-Smith said today:
“I’m delighted to have been made The Sunday Times’s political editor. I have long been an admirer of the paper’s fantastic, agenda-setting journalism. The Sunday Times political reporting has a reputation for being fair, incisive and revelatory. In these uncertain times in Westminster and beyond those values are needed now more than ever. I cannot wait to get stuck in.”
There were rumours in the Baby Shard that Sam Coates was the frontrunner. Looks like Sky were keen to keep him…
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”