According to Sky News, No10 is not ‘actively considering’ a public inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein and his UK sex trafficking, despite two justice ministers saying in the last twelve hours that it was on the cards. Alex Davies-Jones claimed Burnham was “looking into it” last night, with Jake Richards doubling down just this morning. Here he is on Sky News at 7:30am…
Burnham has been on holiday for about 24 hours, and already his ministers are seemingly freelancing on policy while the boss snoozes on a sun bed. Unless this is the new whipping ‘culture’ in action, where MPs can say what they like and wait for No10 to clean up the mess…
Kemi Badenoch at the 1922-ConHome bash last night:
“I did praise [Burnham] for his stamina, it was amazing. All I had to do was sit back and lie there. I didn’t have to do anything at all…”