John McTernan, Tony Blair’s former adviser, had a few choice words about the new government on Times Radio this morning:

“The Government has completely lost grip, I think, a grip on their operations, a grip on the media grid and they don’t dominate communications and that has been because they have lacked a political narrative and the political drive and the momentum that drove them through the election to a great victory. 

That seemed to run out after the sitting weeks ended in July and we got into the recess of August. It just went from the country demanding change to a Government delivering drift.”

Christian Angermayer says he’s leaving Britain for Switzerland…

“Every non-dom I know has left or is about to leave.. The planned changes to the non-dom framework are a huge mistake, potentially a bigger act of national self-harm than Brexit.”

Minister Chris Bryant admitted to a PoliticsHome event at Labour Conference:

“My memory of the general election is we basically didn’t say we were going to do anything.”

Labour MP Rachael Maskell on the eve of Labour Party conference:

“I have been sickened by revelations of ‘donations’. It grates against the values of the Labour Party, created to fight for the needs of others, not self. Meanwhile pensioners are having their Winter Fuel Payments taken, risking going cold. I trust conference votes to change this.”

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.”

Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan tells the BBC’s Newscast podcast about the perils of having so few Welsh members of the Senned:

“We were literally getting to the point where we couldn’t run committees. If somebody went to the toilet then the committee was inquorate. You cannot run a parliament in that way.”