Labour has finally found a line on Elon Musk’s non-invitation to Starmer and Reeves’ investment summit: ‘He doesn’t have anything to invest.’ Eh?

Ministers have spent the weekend refusing to comment on whether he was even invited. Now Peter Kyle has been asked in every interview on the morning round why the “most successful businessman in the world” didn’t cop an invite to the summit. His response is that “Elon Musk doesn’t have a global investment programme that’s underway at the moment.” Just the odd invention or two…

That’s different from Labour’s previous line, which also went on about tech investment, on the summit’s purpose:

“The summit is an opportunity to meaningfully engage with the world’s leading businesses and investors, and to continue to build long-term relationships that will drive investment into the UK in the months and years ahead.”

So Labour doesn’t feel the need to meaningfully engage with Musk. Is it because he said mean things about Keir on Twitter?

Labour frontbenchers Angela Rayner and Peter Kyle were at odds this morning over the government’s new “British Homes for British Workers” policy to guarantee that tenants with a “close connection to the UK and their local area” are given priority for social housing. Shadow deputy PM Rayner dismissed the plans as “rubbish” on Good Morning Britain, saying they “can’t give British Homes for British People because there are no homes“. A front bench colleague of hers was minded to disagree…

An hour later shadow science secretary Peter Kyle gave the opposite view:

“It is right that people who are in areas where there is a real challenge with housing know that housing does go to people who already born and raised in certain communities, because if they believe people are coming in, it could damage the fabric of that community“.

This is the sort of thing that should be ironed out at shadow cabinet meetings…