Robert Jenrick on the £72 million donations Reform has received in the last few days:
“[Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne are] two patriotic British businessmen, who have got behind us, everything that we stand for, who believe we’re the only party that is able to turn this country around and fix the mess that we’re in right now…”
He added: “These two donations are entirely in line with the law as it is and, as far as we know, what it is going to be in the future…”
Meanwhile Angela Rayner warned that any decisions made following a review into donations rules “will be backdated”…
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”