Andrea Egan has been elected as the new general secretary of Unison with 59.8% of the vote. Removing incumbent Starmer ally Christina McAnea…
Unite and Unison are now led by Starmer-sceptical general secretaries. Egan is a Burnham fan…
YouGov has dropped a bombshell poll this morning ahead of the Senedd elections in May:
Those results would give Labour approximately ten seats and put Plaid in pole position for a government propped up by the former governing party. Labour is down four points since September…
On these results Reform and the Tories wouldn’t have enough seats to form a government. All to play for over the next six months…
Latest figures from the ONS show inflation fell to 3.2% in November, down from 3.6% in October. City economists had predicted a modest dip to 3.5%…
Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith said: “This is another indicator of weak demand in the economy. Lower inflation is a good thing but this shows an economy where costs and prices are still going up but where consumers are rightly fearful about their jobs and the tax rises to come.” Makes an interest rate cut by the Bank of England more likely on Thursday…
Ed Miliband has appointed the former director of the “Bristol Energy disaster” as a clean power adviser. This will go well…
Merlin Hyman was Non Executive Director of Bristol Energy from July 2016 to January 2020. In September of that year the troubled council-run supplier’s residential customer base was sold for £14 million. Consider that Bristol City Council had invested £36.5 million since 2015…
Hyman is one of the “newly-refreshed” Clean Power Advisory Commission, which is meant to “guide the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero on its implementation of the Clean Power Mission.” Hyman brings his expertise in wasting huge sums of taxpayer money to the table…
Starmer’s personal minister/SpAd Darren Jones is in front of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee. Guido is obviously still at lunch, if there are any newslines let us know…
Blogging will be light this afternoon. If you want to sneak out some bad news now’s the time…
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Lucy Powell on LBC, asked by Tom Swarbrick for her reaction to Labour MP Samantha Niblett’s call for a ‘summer of sex’ debate in Parliament: “I personally don’t own any sex toys, but each to their own… I’m not really sure that’s the right place for it, no.”