Ex-MP Andrew Bridgen’s libel claim against former health secretary Matt Hancock can go to trial, a High Court judge has ruled after Hancock’s bid to end the claim was refused. The bitter feud began after Hancock’s January 2023 Twitter post accused Bridgen of “anti-Semitism”. Messy times for the two former Tory MPs…
Helen MacNamara reflects on asking Matt Hancock how he was coping in Spring 2020:
“He reassured me that he was ‘loving responsibility’ and to demonstrate this took up a batsman’s stance outside the Cabinet Room, and said, ‘they bowl them at me, I knock them away.”
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”