A useless government council which was skived off by Cabinet ministers cost £10,000 every time it met, new figures reveal. Cheap by Civil Service standards…
The ‘Soft Power Council’ launched under the last Starmer government to co-ordinate between the Foreign Office and DCMS on projecting British influence. It was skived off by Lisa Nandy and successive Foreign Secretaries for half of all its meetings. And it only had four…
Documents uncovered by Guido’s FOI Unit show that every meeting of the widely disparaged Soft Power Council were allocated £10,000 in taxpayer cash. In addition, between ten and 14 staff manned a Joint Soft Power Hub to support its work. Hard cash for soft power? Write your own jokes…
Burnham confirms he spoke to Trump last night about drilling in the North Sea:
“I indicated in the phone call that we had a week last Monday that I would take a pragmatic approach when it comes to the North Sea, and that is my intention as we go forward from here. There is a resource there. When people are struggling, we can’t ignore that. Hence, me indicating that to the president…”