Labour Conference has now voted against the leadership by supporting a non-binding motion by Unite and the Communication Workers Union to reverse the winter fuel cut. Posturing – what they do best…
Sadiq Khan has once again jetted off on an eco-jolly, this time ditching the Labour conference early to rub shoulders in New York. Instead of “having fun with my friends in Liverpool”, as he said, he’s chosen the bright lights of the Big Apple to show off his green credentials. Nothing says environmental warrior quite like hopping on a plane across the Atlantic…
So inspiring to visit the Billion Oyster Project in New York today and see how they’re embracing nature to clean up the Hudson River and increase biodiversity.
Re-introducing wildlife such as water voles, eels and otters will help us to restore London’s waterways. pic.twitter.com/xcbDQ1tRIY
— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) September 24, 2024
Taxpayers will be pleased to hear Khan is enjoying his latest vanity trip, this time involving a boat ride to celebrate… voles and eels – an excursion the Mayor found “so inspiring”. Perhaps less inspiring than the city he left behind, where knife crime involving large blades has doubled in the last five years…
Starmer said too many journalists were outside his house and his son needed somewhere quiet to study for his GCSEs. Who else but Lord Alli was there to provide…
Alli’s £18 million penthouse in Covent Garden is the perfect choice for any studious 16-year-old. Of Alli’s known properties (the other is a Kent mansion) this is the most likely – it’s one Starmer already admitted using for meetings and on election night. With three en-suite bedrooms to choose from, the flat offers panoramic views of London from no fewer than two terraces, all to help soak in crucial facts…
After a few hours of work in the spacious office any teen would let off steam in the games room before settling down to watch some telly in the dedicated TV room. A large roof terrace offers yet another study location with “lush evergreens” to keep the air fresh…
With 5,000 square feet of space there’s little chance a revising teenager would be disturbed by anyone else using the property, like Starmer and his team. Imagine how big the house is going to have to be for A-Levels…
Immigration minister Angela Eagle accused Donald Trump of fuelling “overt racism” in the UK at Labour conference and unsurprisingly it didn’t go down well with former President. Trump’s spokesman hit back with a damning response:
“Nobody knows who this random person is or cares what comes out of her mouth. Who is she and what does she do?”
The Donald entirely correct on this one…
This morning, Keir Starmer was out justifying the £20,000 in “donations” from Labour peer Lord Alli towards accommodation, spinning the tale that his son needed a quiet place to study for his GCSEs. Cue the violin. Speaking to the Today Programme, Starmer said:
“My boy, 16, was in the middle of his GCSEs. I made him a promise, a promise that he would be able to get to his school, do his exams, without being disturbed. We have lots of journalists outside our house where we live and I’m not complaining about that, that’s fine. But if you’re a 16-year-old trying to do your GCSEs and it’s your one chance in life…I promised him we would move somewhere, get out of the house and go somewhere where he could be peacefully studying.”
Naturally, Guido had a peek at the records. The dates of their luxury £20,437.28 stay? From 29th May 2024 to 13th July 2024. The first GCSE exam was on 9th May 2024, and the final one wrapped up on 19th June 2024. So, not only did Starmer’s son start exams weeks before they checked in, but his last paper was nearly a month before they checked out. How much “revision” time do you need in a five-star pad post-GCSEs?
Figures like Labour MP Kate Osborne and TUC boss Paul Nowak turned up to a wine-saturated fringe event last night in support of Colombia’s socialist president Gustavo Petro. Speakers hailed former communist guerrilla Petro’s failed policy of “Total Peace” with armed groups in the country…
Fabian Hamilton MP, who was just twelve months ago a frontbencher as the now-abolished Shadow Minister for Peace and Disarmament, arrived to give assurances that the Foreign Office under Lammy is on Petro’s side. Hamilton claimed “progressive” Colombia “will be fully supported by this labour Government,” which includes drawing the “expertise of our diplomatic corps… to assist negotiations with paramilitary groups.” So far Petro’s policy has resulted in an increase in crime and violence…
Hamilton, who served as shadow minister in Lammy’s team for two years, added that Labour has also pledged to work “with Petro’s administration on the climate and nature emergency“, adding: “I know our Foreign Secretary David Lammy is totally committed to integrating the green agenda into every aspect of our foreign policy and has my full support in doing that.” Good to see Lammy is aiming to get the UK to net zero global influence…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”
