Shabana Mahmood continues to ban foreigners from travelling to Britain to speak on political issues. Or indeed give musical performances…
Last night Mahmood revoked travel authorisations for leftist podcasters Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker, both of whom were booked to speak at the SXSW London conference on Thursday. They have allegedly been banned for their pro-Palestine views and Uygur’s dismissal of reporting on rape gangs as “Islamophobic”…
Guido is running a rolling tracker of prominent figures banned for speech reasons:
Free speech? I hardly knew ‘er…
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.”