Guido’s Adam Cherry asked Nigel Farage if Labour should immediately hold a general election if there is a change of PM. What with the mandate disappearing…
The Reform leader predicted things will come to a head after the May elections:
“I think that’s a very likely proposition… I do think Starmer will face a crisis, I do think the country will scream out for an election… we could argue that all the while they’ve got a majority they can soldier on, and the other factor in this is the state of the economy, and it’s much much worse than anyone believes… and so even if Andy Burnham thinks you can ignore the bond markets, sorry matey in reality you can’t. So there is a big crisis coming for this Labour government before too long.”
You thought Truss was chaotic…
Speaking to Matt Chorley on BBC 5 Live, Shabana Mahmood was asked what the naughtiest thing she has ever done is:
“I think I took a drag on a cigarette when I was a teenager, when I shouldn’t have done, but it did trigger an asthma attack. And so I figured that was God telling me, don’t smoke.”