There will be lots of movement over in the Parliamentary Press Gallery in the next few weeks.
The Express’s Christian Calgie (formerly of these pixels) is off to the Mail as Senior Political Editor-at-Large, working mainly on the daily paper and occasionally moonlighting for the Mail on Sunday.
Ex-CCHQ press officer Aaron Newbury, who joined the Express as a full-time reporter in January, has been promoted to the paper’s Lobby team as Political Correspondent.
The Spectator has also gone on a hiring spree, picking up The Sun’s Noa Hoffman as its new Political Correspondent and ConservativeHome’s Tali Fraser as a Writer-at-Large. There is also speculation that a vacancy may appear at a certain broadsheet’s political editor rank soon…
At the time of going to pixel, 10 year-gilts are at 5.069% – and rising. Now hitting 2008 financial crisis levels… and comfortably higher than the 4.42% peak after Liz Truss’s mini-Budget…
Four Hatzola Northwest ambulances were set on fire last night in Golders Green in what Keir Starmer had described on X this morning as a “deeply shocking antisemitic arson attack”:
“My thoughts are with the Jewish community who are waking up this morning to this horrific news. Antisemitism has no place in our society. Anyone with any information must come forward to the police.”
No injuries have been reported. The three suspects caught on CCTV are still at large.
Housing Secretary Steve Reed speaking to Laura Kuenssberg this morning:
“There is no specific assessment that the Iranians are targeting the UK or [that they] even could if they wanted to…”
On why Israel claimed Iran had that capability:
“You would need to speak to the Israelis… Whatever people might say, the UK is not going to be dragged into this war, but we will take appropriate collective defensive action to keep our nationals and our interests safe.”
He refused to admit how close the Iranian bombs came to hitting Diego Garcia. No getting into “operational details”…
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You’re either in front of Guido, or you are behind…
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.”
