Chief Secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby said messages from Darren Jones to Peter Mandelson praising the ambassador on the day he was sacked for his relationship with Epstein made her feel “not great.” The messages between the pair – missing from the Mandelson Files but sourced elsewhere – were published by the Spectator’s Tim Shipman:
Rigby said on Sky News: “you ask me how I feel about that. Not great is the is the honest answer. But look, I think Darren has been clear, including in the chamber how he feels about this entire episode, how he feels in particular about Jeffrey Epstein’s uh victims. And I think he’s asked himself, he’s been clear about this, some quite serious questions in the way that you would, want he and and all of us, frankly, to to ask about, about what’s happened.” Not his thoughts in private though were they…
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.”