Guido understands that the new Education Secretary jetted off for sunnier climes on Thursday last week. Three days after taking up post…
She is due back today or tomorrow. How is Mallorca at this time of year?
Powell will have a quote in the technical education policy release to go out from No10 in the morning. A source close to Powell said her holiday was a “prior family engagement” and insisted she was working throughout. Some people prefer working from the beach…
Powell may also think she deserves a break after spending numerous months organising for Burnham to dethrone Starmer while publicly professing loyalty to the PM. The coup may have been bloodless but it took a sustained effort…
Unfortunately last week was the final week of term for a lot of schools around the country – some were still open on Wednesday – and Powell has still not made a public visit to one. There’s always next term…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”