It seems Starmer’s own leadership campaign chair, Jenny Chapman, has successfully completed the five stages of grief faster than many of her PLP colleagues. Despite being Corbyn’s Shadow Minister for Exiting the EU and a leading proponent of a second referendum – eventually forcing Corbyn’s hand – she’s now finally realised the policy was a bad idea. In an under-the-radar tweet over the weekend, Starmer’s top ally responded to a user who criticised the policy:
That was a bad idea tbf
— Jenny Chapman (@JennyChapman) November 21, 2021
Co-conspirators will note Chapman is still the party’s shadow Brexit spokesperson in the Lords. Guido has a feeling Starmer has fewer regrets than his best mate in the Upper Chamber, then again he wasn’t a red wall MP…
Having billed the taxpayer £249 for a pair of noise-cancelling AirPods Pro earlier this year – and then refusing to apologise on the grounds that she “uses them four hours a day for Zoom calls” – Angela Rayner has now admitted to losing the luxury headphones on the train, and is hoping a good samaritan will return them. Confessing to LBC’s Eddie Mair, Rayner added that while the AirPods cost £249, her personalised name engraving was at least free:
“If anybody knows where they are, they were left on the train, and it did have my name on it. And I was kind of hoping they would come back to me.”
Unfortunately for Rayner, the phone line cut out just as she was about to justify the expense with the same “Zoom call’ excuse as before. Given how little she actually used the AirPods throughout the pandemic, Guido will be keeping an eye on her expenses to make sure she doesn’t try billing the taxpayer again…
Boris has just wrapped up his speech at the CBI, in which he – in the space of 20 minutes – managed to repeatedly lose his place, referred to himself in the third person, compared himself to Moses, quoted Lenin, impersonated the “vroom, vroom, rah, rah” of petrol cars, and asked the collected business heavyweights whether they’d ever been to Peppa Pig World. “Please Check Against Delivery” will be more meaningful for this speech…
