Lara Bird, also Lara Bird-Leakey, also Pyla Bird-Leakey, the new SNP MP for Arbroath and Broughty Ferry, has caught growing attention for her disparate accents and dumbing down of her name. Twas ever thus…
Bird-Leakey is an English lawyer and sits on the Executive Committee of the pro-Palestine Balfour Project. Here’s the Wikipedia page for the Leakey family…
She was conducting PhD research at King’s College London on International Humanitarian Law and staffed in Westminster for the SNP prior to her selection in the by-election seat. Presumably she has to pick one accent going forward…
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.”