Guido was looking through old photos from when the Tories weren’t warning about a Labour supermajority this afternoon. At Sunak’s May 22nd election campaign launch event in the ExCel centre in London a vaguely familiar face was standing next to Kemi Badenoch and Akshata Murty behind the PM. He gave her a hug at the end, though Guido recognised the woman from different campaign work altogether…
Hagir Ahmed is a former Corbyn campaigner, who’s been photographed at Momentum events and “Jeremy for Labour” phone bank sessions. She seems to have have a change of heart and was seen out campaigning with Tory MP Greg Hands since turning up to Sunak’s launch event. Was she converted by his bold action and clear plan?
Ahmed’s Twitter is full of pro-Tory content. Was Sunak embracing an agent of the party’s most loyal intelligence service?
Labour has today dropped its legal fights against Corbynista operators including Milne and Murphy. A statement confirms:
“The Party is discontinuing its legal claims against Karie Murphy, Seumas Milne, Georgie Robertson, Harry Hayball and Laura Murray on a ‘no order as to costs’ basis. The five welcome the resolution of the claims.”
Co-conspirators will remember the heady days around Corbyn’s removal in 2020, when a hyper-factional Corbynite report blaming hyper-factionalism for the party’s antisemitism failures miraculously made its way into press hands. Labour under Starmer pushed to prove that the Corbyn top set “entered into a conspiracy to use unlawful means… to provide a copy (or copies) of the Report to the press“. Millions of pounds later, Labour is giving up the ghost…
Labour had previously asked the High Court to delay full hearing proceedings until early 2025. The five accused always denied the claims. The legal case was seen as a gamble when it was launched – four years should be enough to confirm it hasn’t paid off…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”
