In the East Midlands mayoral race, Labour’s main attack of their Tory opponent, Ben Bradley MP, revolves around his holding of three public sector positions. Labour mayoral candidate Claire Ward wasted no time in blasting Bradley for his several jobs, suggesting this shows he’s unfit for the mayoralty. Though she conveniently overlooks her own extensive list of eight other jobs…
A quick look at LinkedIn and Companies House shows Ward doesn’t shy away from padding her own payroll:
- CEO of her own company, Capewells Ltd
- Chair of the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust
- Non-Executive Director at the Institute for Collaborative Working
- Fellow at the Society of Leadership Fellows
- Advisory Board Member at Alliance Healthcare/AmeriSourceBergen
- Chair of Groupe Eurocom/Communications International Group
- Board Governor at the University of Hertfordshire
- Director of Public Affairs at the Pharmacist Defence Association
That’s a whopping eight gigs for the former Blair Babe. It’s not the first time Ward has landed in hot water for her various antics. Guido revealed last week she may have breached NHS rules and the Nolan Principles when she abused her position as chair of Sherwood Forest Hospitals by arranging a party-political campaign visit to a local hospital for Starmer and Streeting. First, take the plank out of your own eye…
Sunak posed for a lovely photo up in Mansfield with Tory MP Ben Bradley yesterday. The Prime Minister has had a custom Mansfield Town football shirt made just for him. Right above “SUNAK” sits a handy ad for “A.Wass Funeral Directors”. They are “professional and caring” and “happy to collect and organise funerals throughout the UK“. Presumably that includes 10 Downing Street…
Reminds Guido of Starmer’s choice gift for Macron last September…
Yesterday saw the traditional Lobby vs MPs football showdown in a rainy Manchester. The sprightly Lobby team managed to pull ahead and secure a 4 goal victory with a final score of 4-2. Highlights included Brendan Clarke-Smith scoring a worldy for the MPs. After the game he said: “I hope I’m ahead of Maguire in World Cup squad”. Watch this space…
Meanwhile Ben Bradley booted a goal kick into someone’s head. Refreshing to see some point-scoring and foul play from politicos…
Ben Bradley MP spent the weekend warming up his lungs for the return of Tory karaoke at conference with this rendition of Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud“. Lee Anderson filmed it, although there’s no footage of the Red Wall rottweiler grabbing the microphone himself, at least not yet. Anderson nonetheless says he “taught him [Bradley] all he needed to know about singing“. Not the worst Guido’s heard – better than Matt Hancock at least…
Despite Nissan’s announcement that it plans to build a massive battery ‘gigafactory’ in Sunderland by 2024, it looks like Labour’s Ben Bradshaw still can’t see the bright side of the Brexit deal. Even when it delivers a huge investment boost and creates thousands of jobs, it’s all still a ‘despite Brexit’ kind of pyrrhic victory for Ben…
Asked on Politics Live whether the announcement is a benefit of the deal, Bradshaw said:
“No, and I don’t think all of its implications and impacts have been felt yet, because we’ve been living in the last 16 months in a world dominated by Covid, and I think lots of the impacts have been concealed by that…constituents who come to me who say we’ve just given up trying to import or export stuff between us and the European Union because of the costs, the hassle, the VAT, and everything else…”
As his co-panelist Ben Bradley points out, however, non-EU exports are up, and investment continues to flood into the UK at the highest levels since the referendum. Guido doubts it’ll make much of a difference to Bradshaw though, who has been miserable for the last 5 years…
In tonight’s LIVE with LITTLEWOOD:
- POWER HUNGRY? Will current Covid restrictions lead to long-term Soviet-style state overreach?
- THE RE-GENERATION GAME How do we mend our battered economy?
- VACCINE BOOST Will good news on the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine hasten the loosening of the lockdown?
- GAMECHANGER? Getting to grips with the ‘Gamestonk’ controversy
Join the show that brings you free-flowing discussion on the issues that matter with host MARK LITTLEWOOD and guests BEN BRADLEY, the Conservative MP for Mansfield; The Sunday Telegraph’s JANET DALEY; The Telegraph’s OLIVIA UTLEY and Comedian and MoneyWeek columnist DOMINIC FRISBY.
They’ll also be joined by JON CALDARA of Colorado’s Independence Institute; JONATHON KITSON, a fellow at the Adam Smith Institute; JAMES PRICE, President of the Oxford Union, and DUNCAN SIMPSON of the Taxpayers’ Alliance.
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