Labour marked its 100 days in power by…losing its poll lead. Over the weekend, a poll from More in Common shows the Tories and Labour are neck and neck at 27%. Labour’s lead wiped out after 934 days, after 100 days in government…
Meanwhile, Reform polls just 6 percentage points behind at 21%, reportedly sparking some of Starmer’s allies to worry that Reform could overtake Labour by the time of May’s local elections. The real opposition…
Labour has finally found a line on Elon Musk’s non-invitation to Starmer and Reeves’ investment summit: ‘He doesn’t have anything to invest.’ Eh?
Ministers have spent the weekend refusing to comment on whether he was even invited. Now Peter Kyle has been asked in every interview on the morning round why the “most successful businessman in the world” didn’t cop an invite to the summit. His response is that “Elon Musk doesn’t have a global investment programme that’s underway at the moment.” Just the odd invention or two…
That’s different from Labour’s previous line, which also went on about tech investment, on the summit’s purpose:
“The summit is an opportunity to meaningfully engage with the world’s leading businesses and investors, and to continue to build long-term relationships that will drive investment into the UK in the months and years ahead.”
So Labour doesn’t feel the need to meaningfully engage with Musk. Is it because he said mean things about Keir on Twitter?
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”
