Guido’s spotted an unfortunate slip-up by the shadow chancellor during her latest appearance on Woman’s Hour. Discussing the policing of the Sarah Everard vigil, Dodds proudly boasts to listeners:

“You would be quite hard pushed actually to find anyone who has a lesser commitment to the rule of law, to making sure that people are treated fairly, including in fact members of the police forces and others involved in criminal justice, than Keir Starmer”. 

There’s a reason some are speculating Sir Keir wants to get rid of Dodds over her poor media performances…

In her first interview since being marched out of Downing Street by a cheerful policeman following her sacking in August 2019, former Treasury SpAd Sonia Khan has claimed she is optimistic for the future of No. 10 workplace employment rights following her tribunal case against them. Khan told Woman’s Hour she wasn’t scared of Dominic Cummings – who dismissed her – however she’s optimistic about the future of SpAd’s working conditions with Allegra Stratton:

“Whilst I don’t know them very closely, people like Allegra Stratton do believe that the treatment of Special Advisers has to change, and there are more protections in place now”

Sonia was surprisingly cagey about the exact reason given by Cummings for why she was sacked…

BBC’s Woman’s Hour power list 2020 is out, this year focusing on “our planet” and has delivered a result few could have expected; giving a backbench MP in a tiny fringe opposition party with one MP the top spot. Caroline Lucas is described by the BBC as having “unparalleled experience”. ‘Unparallelled’ if ignoring every woman alive with experience of power and government…

The Woman’s Hour power list – which includes 15-year-olds, Guardian correspondents, activist lawyers and the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion – fails to include a single female secretary of state, of whom there are six, or – perhaps most overlooked at all – Carrie Symonds, who is arguably the most influential environmental campaigner in the country. Sometimes the BBC really does surpass itself…