Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre is set to make a return to parliament after his defeat in the election. In it for the long haul…
Poilievre is standing in a by-election for safe Alberta Tory seat Battle River-Crowfoot and is leading with 80.1% of the vote. Four months after Carney’s Liberals won the national election…
Sitting MP Damian Kurek stepped aside in June to let Poilievre run in a by-election. The 46th Canadian federal election can be held no later than 15 October, 2029. A big year for elections…
Wheels down in Anchorage…
President Trump has just left for Alaska for a summit with Vladimir Putin. He told reporters on Air Force One:
“I noticed he’s bringing a lot of business people from Russia, and that’s good. I like that because they want to do business, but they’re not doing business until we get the war settled.”
Zelensky has said “we are counting on America” ahead of the meeting. They will meet around 8.30 p.m. BST…
Trump answered questions last night in the White House ahead of today’s summit in Alaska. He said “President Putin would like to see a deal. I think if I weren’t president he would take over all of Ukraine. But I am president, and he’s not going to mess around.” Trump says the goal here is to “set the table” for another meeting with Zelensky and Putin…
The President added there is a “25% chance that this meeting will not be a successful meeting.” Here are the timings:
John Healey has the morning round today and said “the pressure is on Putin. He’s declared four times in the last six months that he wants peace, but he’s been escalating the attacks on Ukrainian cities and killing Ukrainian civilians as well as attacking the military with thousands of drones each month launched into Ukraine. And so today is a day when really eyes are on Putin. Is he serious about what he says?” Keir ‘bridge to Trump’ Starmer will be looking on from Downing Street…
First Lady Melania Trump is threatening to sue Hunter Biden for $1 billion unless he withdraws the “false, disparaging, defamatory and inflammatory” claims he made about her alleged connection to Jeffrey Epstein. According to Fox News, lawyers for the First Lady sent a letter to Biden’s legal team demanding an apology and a retraction or face a legal fight for “over $1 billion in damages”. Not exactly chump change, even if you’re the son of a former president…
In a long, rambling interview last month, Biden claimed Jeffrey Epstein “introduced Melania to Trump” and “the connections are so wide and deep”. He also took aim at George Clooney, the Pod Save America Obama bros, and the Democrats who thought it was a bad idea to let his dad run again 2024. His Epstein comments appear to be based on one article in the Daily Beast which has since been removed. Melania Trump claims his statement inflicted “overwhelming financial and reputational harm”. Grab the popcorn…
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are set to meet face-to-face in the next week, with a second three-way meeting including Volodymyr Zelensky on the cards afterwards. Kremlin officials claim a venue has been decided and full details are to follow…
Zelensky had a phone call with Trump yesterday, and now says he believes Russia is “more inclined to a ceasefire”. Time will tell…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”