Starmer’s Cabinet has today been summoned to a “secret location in Whitehall” for what the government insists isn’t an away day. A normal Cabinet followed by a political Cabinet in which the PM will let ministers “step back from the day-to-day of government” and chat about Labour’s milestones, pillars, missions, and tests. Thrilling…
There is plenty to talk about as No 10 continues with its neverending reset:
For those imagining Miliband and Reeves stony-faced on the Vampire ride at Chessington, Guido hates to disappoint and can report that ministers will actually be in Lancaster House for the day. About half a mile away from Downing Street…
Historically-minded co-conspirators will remember Lancaster House, a sprawling FCDO property with a large garden, as the site of the 1965 agreement between the British and Mauritians to establish the British Indian Ocean Territory. Some symbolism deployed there…
It’s not just a few Labour MPs using employment practices the party wants to ban through its “Make Work Pay” push. If you trawl through job adverts for Cabinet Ministers it turns out that almost all of them have specifically violated their own stated policy on employment rights and “insecure work.” One rule for them as usual…
Dodds, Hermer, and Angela Smith are the only Cabinet Ministers who haven’t hired using these nefarious practices. That’s 86% of the Cabinet. It’s almost like arbitrary restrictions on voluntary working arrangements are a bad idea…
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.”