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…
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.”