‘Chief Secretary to the PM’ Darren Jones briefed to the Times that he was creating a ‘Command Unit’ nerve centre in the Cabinet Office to monitor various situations. So laughable was the proposal that the piece only appeared in print…
The unit – or rearranged desks – sits in the rooms previously occupied by Rayner’s Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, which David Lammy didn’t get to keep hold of. Some ideas were presented for how to spend ‘command centre’ redesign budget…
Guido hears Jones was given £500,000 to play with to design his unit. Government sources say one of the primary proposals for how to spend that cash was for £300,000 to go on raising the ceiling. This is the guy who wants to cut waste…
Individuals inside the building report that the layout is as set out above but the unit itself is wasting away. When do we get to see the results of all that delivery?
UPDATE: Starmer announces RAF to send four more Typhoons to Al-Udeid airbase in Qatar. The first charter flight to evacuate British citizens took off from Oman this afternoon. He also admitted he hasn’t spoken to Donald Trump since Saturday…
Starmer said online:
“I know that the situation in the Middle East is worrying for people across the UK and in the region… I’ll be giving an update on the action we continue to take to protect lives and bring British nationals back home.”
An attempt to wrest back some narrative control…
Kemi Badenoch is miles ahead of her shadow cabinet colleagues in ConHome’s latest shadow cabinet league table, with a net satisfaction level of +81.6. Tory members are buying what she’s selling…
Shadow cabinet newcomer Nick Timothy takes the silver medal with +59.6. Bottom of the pile is Stuart Andrew, though even he keeps his head above water at +7.6. To have your say on Reform’s power rankings, click here. Fill in the survey and get the first month of your Guido membership on the house…
See the full league table below…
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Starmer has suggested that ousted No10 Chief of Staff (and creator of the Starmer project) Morgan McSweeney could return to government in future. Will be news to some…
At McSweeney’s leaving drinks in the Walkers of Whitehall pub Starmer lathered on the praise, calling Morgan one of the best political strategists in the world and praising his “plan, strategy and foresight.” Not enough foresight to see the Mandelson-shaped boulder hurtling down the mountain towards his office…
Guido hears Starmer spoke about the need for the “journey” to continue and added to Morgan: “we will need you again.” Sources tell Guido that McSweeney has been working out what he wants to do since leaving No10, speaking to journalists and so on. No shields left for Starmer…
An extraordinary moment on GB News as small boat migrants arrive in Ramsgate while the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is still on her feet announcing reforms to legal and illegal migration. You couldn’t make it up…
UPDATE: 65 illegal immigrants just disembarked BF Hurricane according to GB News‘ Mark White.
Farage is with Dan Thomas to launch Reform’s manifesto for the Senedd election.
Read the manifesto here:
Statement by Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers Limited, following Harry’s loss in court today:
“Prince Harry wrote a sad book which boasted about his killing of 25 Taliban, his drug-taking and, in cringe-making detail, how he lost his virginity. There isn’t a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family. For him, to complain about HIS privacy being invaded takes, not just the biscuit, but the whole tin. Poor Harry. I feel sorry for the way a confused and angry young man has been drawn into this case. The bitter irony is that his mother, Diana, liked the Mail. We were her paper. We took her side in her acrimonious break up with Charles. She and I would speak and meet. The Mail’s superb royal reporter was her friend and confidante. The truth is that this trumped-up action – which has cost well over £50 million and wasted a huge amount of valuable court time – should never have been brought to trial. That it did, raises profoundly disturbing questions about the conduct of elements of the legal profession. Today’s verdict is not just a victory for Associated’s magnificent journalists – several of whom have had a terrible toll imposed on their health and lives – but a free press generally. Make no mistake. This was a conspiracy, supported by Hacked Off, to destroy a paper. Financed by the orgy-loving, racist Max Mosley and involving the actor Hugh Grant, it was also a sinister bid to resuscitate Leveson Two and impose statutory regulation on the press which, even now, is rearing its ugly head in Labour’s Media Green Paper.”
