In response to criticism by Robert Jenrick on Richard Hermer and the ECHR on 7 October, everyone’s favourite lawyer and Brexit expert Jessica Simor KC tweeted:
“Jenrick: a moral vacuum, an ethical sewer – a man without qualities; honour or shame. A grave mistake of a man who can bring only harm to us. I might even be persuaded we should leave the ECHR if it was to enable us to deport him to St. Helena.”
For some reason Simor has now deleted the post. Will she be apologising to Jenrick?
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”