Team Burnham is busy trying to mop up after their leader signed himself up to spending £10.5 billion on the Waspi women. Cuckoo…
The Manchester Mayor told a hustings event in Makerfield: “I’ll stick by the Waspi women because they deserve some recompense for the unfairness.” Starmer people are pointing out that Labour has resisted this to its credit…
Last time Starmer’s government looked at this the potential bill reached almost £11 billion. A Burnham spokesman only said he was “committed to looking at” Waspi compensation. You can’t stop the rollercoaster…
On background the Burnham camp is insisting in a panic that his comments were not a specific spending commitment and that it is only under consideration. Once again Team Burnham is pretending they can freely differentiate between actual policy proposals for government – which they are sending out – and policy material Andy comes out with…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”