Lord Coe won’t become the head of the International Olympic Committee after being beaten in the vote by a swimmer from Zimbabwe called Kirsty Coventry. She becomes the organisation’s first female president…
The Brit – who is a former Tory MP and peer – saw his campaign scuppered by Coventry, who has an eyebrow-raising political history. As The Times reports: “She received $100,000 in cash from the former president, Robert Mugabe, upon her return from the Beijing Games in 2008 and has been a sports minister in a Zimbabwean government that is the subject of UK and US sanctions.” Another international organisation which is becoming a total joke…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”