Guido hears senior personnel in No10 are keen on resignation honours from Starmer. Just one problem with that…
In 2023 Starmer promised never to make a list of resignation honours – defying convention – because he was attacking Tory PMs for doing the same when they revolved out of the door of Downing Street. Once again the piety comes back to slap them in the face…
This week Starmer’s spokesman declined to rule out resignation honours, saying: “We’re getting ahead of ourselves.” A Downing Street source tells Guido that senior staff in the building – expected to go under Burnham – are “all testing how much Keir will stick to his promise about no resignation honours,” adding: “some of them fancy the ermine.” No doubt about that…
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.”