Thames Water’s hosepipe ban is in place. It mostly applies to residential properties – you can water plants that are for commercial use. Is Shabana Mahmood planning on selling these ones?
Private contractors are keeping the foliage outside government offices on Marsham Street – also the home of DEFRA – fed and watered with a big old hose today. Sorry about all your private gardens in SW1…
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.