Sun editor Victoria Newton on Times Radio about the secrecy around Huw Edwards being charged:
“We knew that he’d been arrested on The Sun for months, but we couldn’t write it because the police wouldn’t confirm it officially. So they kept that covered up. Would they have done that for an ordinary Joe Bloggs on the street? Perhaps not. And then the more staggering thing was then he got charged. And for three weeks, the public did not know that he’d been charged. It was only when The Sun found out. And we put it to the Met and the CPS and they eventually admitted it. That is just shocking in a democratic society. Normally, what would have happened in the past is that that paedophile would have been remanded in custody and then and then maybe come back to get a suspended sentence. But at least the idea of doing that is to shock them to see how how terrible it is being remanded in custody. And hopefully the impact is that they don’t do it again. But that didn’t happen today. This judge was happy to send him off for a cup of coffee and so will mind the press out there .I thought that was quite shocking.”
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.”