The McIavelli’s popped into work early – probably to finish setting up his new desk. They’re calling him the new Dom…
The row over Taylor Swift’s concert freebies has been hilariously extended for another day. Labour was forced to defend lobbying the police for a motorcade for Swift while accepting freebie tickets from her record label…
The optics weren’t as bad as they could have been yesterday seeing as everyone clarified that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper hadn’t taken freebie tickets to the concert – of the two, only Sadiq Khan had. Sky News’ Sam Coates reported last night that Ed Balls had though – and brought his wife along…
Now it’s clear that both Khan and Cooper received free premium tickets and pressed security services to do Swift a favour. Cooper didn’t declare them at the time as they fell under the threshold, though she now has. Was probably worth fessing up to when the first story broke…
Jonathan Reynolds is up on Good Morning Britain soon to answer an interviewer’s questions. Guido can think of just the man for the job…
UPDATE: Nandy yesterday, of course, was briefed that Cooper “didn’t attend the concerts.” Top quality briefing that…
The government has been firing round an official summary of its flagship “Make Work Pay” plans to stakeholders. Today’s Employment Rights Bill contains about a third of the measures which make up those plans…
Curiously the government refers to the bill straight away as the “Employment Rights Union Bill.” Did they forget to delete the name of the working draft?
The Freudian slip won’t be much comfort to businesses and workers, who will have to deal with massive restrictions on zero hour contracts, statutory protection of “flexible working,” and a rollback of trade union legislation. As expected most changes will be subject to consultations in 2025 and the government makes clear that the majority won’t come into place until 2026. Labour has softened its rhetoric on unfair dismissal, which will now be subject to a “light-touch” statutory probation period instead of “day one protection.” The unions for whom the bill is named will be hard at work to chip away at that concession…
Labour will also establish “day 1 rights” to paternal leave as well as a “Fair Work Agency” and “Employment Rights Unit” to deal with enforcement. Large companies can look forward to being required to produce “action plans” on how to address their gender pay gaps and how to “support employees through the menopause.” A pen-pusher’s charter…
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Cleverly says to his supporters:
“We didn’t do it. I didn’t make it through and that is massively disappointing for me, but one of the things that has really lifted my spirits is how many people have given me and the team so much support. So I want to say a huge thank you to you all. I could not have done any of this without you makes me proud to be a Conservative, makes me proud that we can pull together as a team. Thank you, thank you, thank you.”
Classy send-off from Cleverly…
Jenrick has spoken to GB News following his ascension to the final two. He’s a happy man…
“I’m absolutely delighted to have got the trust and the confidence of so many. I have a very specific plan as to how we do that whether it’s improving the NHS, getting growth going again in our economy or securing our borders – I don’t believe in platitudes I want us to have a serious plan now.”
The leadership hopeful claims vote-lending accusations are a “conspiracy theory“:
“I think in the privacy of the ballot box my colleagues have voted for who they think is the best person to take this party forward.”
He is framing the race now as one on immigration policy:
“On immigration we do differ. I believe that we should leave the ECHR. In fact I think it’s the only way in which we’ll control our borders. We’ll get foreign criminals out of this country, we’ll get terror suspects out and we’ll actually restore sovereignty to Parliament. Also we do disagree on whether we should have a capped system of migration.”
Jenrick is still pushing for the member vote to be pushed forward for a Budget reponse from the new leader. Pushback from Badenoch so far…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”
