Wes Streeting would lose his seat alongside more than sixty other Labour MPs under the most optimistic Burnham general election polling done so far. All while the former Health Secretary falls into line behind Angry Andy…
Guido has applied a uniform national swing from the small More in Common poll last week which gave Burnham a three-point lead nationally over Reform. This is likely a ceiling for Burnham’s chances, which will decline as he approaches government and 2029…
Streeting, who has a 528 majority, loses to the independents. Reform would still reach around 111 seats as Labour’s vote drops ~4.6%. The Tories would drop to 70 seats. The split on the right saves Labour’s skin entirely…
Home Office minister Mike Tapp would also lose his seat. Team Burnham is considering it…
Statement by Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers Limited, following Harry’s loss in court today:
“Prince Harry wrote a sad book which boasted about his killing of 25 Taliban, his drug-taking and, in cringe-making detail, how he lost his virginity. There isn’t a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family. For him, to complain about HIS privacy being invaded takes, not just the biscuit, but the whole tin. Poor Harry. I feel sorry for the way a confused and angry young man has been drawn into this case. The bitter irony is that his mother, Diana, liked the Mail. We were her paper. We took her side in her acrimonious break up with Charles. She and I would speak and meet. The Mail’s superb royal reporter was her friend and confidante. The truth is that this trumped-up action – which has cost well over £50 million and wasted a huge amount of valuable court time – should never have been brought to trial. That it did, raises profoundly disturbing questions about the conduct of elements of the legal profession. Today’s verdict is not just a victory for Associated’s magnificent journalists – several of whom have had a terrible toll imposed on their health and lives – but a free press generally. Make no mistake. This was a conspiracy, supported by Hacked Off, to destroy a paper. Financed by the orgy-loving, racist Max Mosley and involving the actor Hugh Grant, it was also a sinister bid to resuscitate Leveson Two and impose statutory regulation on the press which, even now, is rearing its ugly head in Labour’s Media Green Paper.”