Now Andy Burnham is getting involved, to the surprise of no one. Speaking on the Today programme this morning, Burnham said not only that Rayner’s attack on Starmer “should be listened to“, but her claim that Shabana Mahmood’s immigration policies were “un-British” mirrored his own “moral questions“:
“From my point of view I would have a concern about the mandatory checks on people’s country of origin… my feeling would be that could place an administrative burden on a system that already struggles to cope, and in fact doesn’t cope. It is often in chaos… alongside the problem that it leaves some people in limbo, so [that’s] the moral question that I think Angela was pointing to…”
The morning after Rayner appears at an anti-Starmer faction’s party, the King of the North crops up with his own hot take on where the government is going wrong. Who’d have guessed…
The key quotes from Rayner’s speech last night at Mainstream’s spring reception in Westminster:
“As a party and a movement, we cannot hide. We cannot just go through the motions in the face of decline. There’s no safe ground for us, and we’re running out of time. The change that people wanted so desperately to see needs to be seen. It needs to be felt, and we have to show that it’s a Labour government that will deliver it…”
“… we have to come together in the face of division of hate and make sure that the Labour Party represents the ordinary working people of this country. And I’m in there with you, so I can’t wait to get involved with you.”
Starmer wasn’t the only one in the firing line. She also took aim at Shabana Mahmood’s changes to indefinite leave to remain:
“If we suddenly change that, it pulls the rug from under those that have planned their lives and commitments, and they’re contributing to our economy and to our society. That would not just be bad policy, but a breach of trust… It’s un-British.”
Mainstream’s mission is to prevent Labour’s “clear drift to the right” under Starmer. It is also backed by Andy Burnham. As everyone fully expected, Rayner has parked tanks on Starmer’s lawn. Now, about those taxes…
Another stunning performance from ‘the real Foreign Secretary’ and Chagos sellout architect Jonathan Powell is revealed in The Guardian this afternoon. It has emerged Starmer’s National Security Advisor attended denuclearisation talks in Geneva in February between the Americans and Iranians. What did he have to offer?
Not much by the sounds of it: “Powell thought progress had been made in Geneva and that the deal proposed by Iran was “surprising”, according to sources.” Just days later the US began to bomb Iran…
Powell’s proximity to the talks will raise further questions about why Starmer took so long to act when war broke out. His own NSA was around the table, yet HMS Dragon is still not any further than Gibraltar…
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She also admitted youth unemployment was “far too high” and the student loan system is “broken“. And then said fixing it wasn’t “front of the queue”…
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It’s all kicking off in Port Louis as Mauritius’s Deputy Prime Minister has announced he is intending to resign. Paul Berenger said: “My decision is made, but when I implement it, and if I do, I will communicate the details.” A full-blown political crisis is kicking off in Mauritius, thanks to Keir Starmer…
The Mauritius Parliament had been expected to resume its term today. At the top of the DPM’s list for why he is resigning? Local press reports: “given the worsening economic situation and international tensions, particularly the war in the Middle East, “this is not the time for the country not to have a full-time Minister of Finance.” As Guido has noted, the demise of the Chagos deal has blown a hole in the Mauritius budget…
The country’s government could now collapse, further complicating the status of the paused Chagos deal which was derailed by President Trump. If an election looms in Mauritius, the deal will go into a further pause – only Starmer could get this unlucky…
Kemi Badenoch at the 1922-ConHome bash last night:
“I did praise [Burnham] for his stamina, it was amazing. All I had to do was sit back and lie there. I didn’t have to do anything at all…”