Argentina is set to be fined by FIFA once the World Cup is over after its players unfurled a banner reading “Las Malvinas Son Argentinas” following their win against England last night. Political messaging is banned, extremely strictly…
The Argentine government also publicised a complaint against the British after HMS Medway sailed from the Falklands through the Magellan Strait earlier this week. Entirely appropriate behaviour of which Argentina falsely claims it required warning…
Business Secretary (for now) Peter Kyle said there were grounds for a fine this morning. He told BBC Breakfast:
“My reaction is that it was entirely inappropriate. Politics needs to be separate from football. In fact, the World Cup has one of its central tenets that politics is separate from football.”
Las Malvinas son Britanicas…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”