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16/01/2025

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16/01/2025

Jolyon's latest bizarre campaign is to support action against the Charity Commission (his new favourite enemy), which has refused to retract the conclusions of its report into the old disgraced charity Kids Company. The Good Law Project says it is supporting a Judicial Review into the collapse of the scandal-hit charity "to fully restore its reputation." This is despite it's CEO, Camila Batmanghelidjh, having died a year ago......

Jolyon's latest bizarre campaign is to support action against the Charity Commission (his new favourite enemy), which has refused to retract the

16/01/2025

Prominent Brexit backer, Tory donor, and leading financier Peter Hargreaves has slammed Labour as having “universally the worst cabinet of all time” telling LBC today that “What frightens me is the damage the current government could do if they remain in power for a full term.” Not a single member of the cabinet having any real-world business experience may have something to do with that......

Prominent Brexit backer, Tory donor, and leading financier Peter Hargreaves has slammed Labour as having “universally the worst cabinet of all time”

16/01/2025

BP is slashing 8,000 jobs as Labour’s Net Zero crusade piles pressure on oil and gas firms. The cuts include 4,700 staff and 3,000 contractor roles, driven by Ed Miliband’s push to wind down North Sea oil production and ramp up renewables. Labour’s beefed-up windfall tax on energy profits isn’t helping either. So much for lofty promises of boosting jobs......

BP is slashing 8,000 jobs as Labour’s Net Zero crusade piles pressure on oil and gas firms. The cuts include 4,700 staff and 3,000 contractor roles,

16/01/2025

Labour has refused to what-they-call “jump on the far-right bandwagon” by stopping short of a full national inquiry into rape gangs. Instead, Yvette Cooper has opted for a half-measure of five new "local inquiries" into the scale of the abuse. They'll be overseen by Baroness Louise Casey with a budget of £10 million and will aim to dig into the…...

Labour has refused to what-they-call “jump on the far-right bandwagon” by stopping short of a full national inquiry into rape gangs. Instead, Yvette

16/01/2025

Starmer has made another change to his cultural hinterland today. The chameleon PM has picked a new favourite book... On a visit to a school to in Ukraine Starmer has said his favourite book is a football comic: “My favourite book is ‘Roy of the Rovers.’ It’s a fabulous book – well known in Anfield. … I love football, so all my books are about football.”...

Starmer has made another change to his cultural hinterland today. The chameleon PM has picked a new favourite book... On a visit to a school to in Ukraine

16/01/2025

Kemi Badenoch is delivering her first speech of 2025 aimed at "rebuilding trust" within the party, hosted by centrist Tory think thank Onward at the Institute of Directors. She’ll admit the Tories made mistakes over their 14 years in power, hammering May’s Net Zero by 2050 plan, the surge in immigration, as well as leaving the EU without a 'plan for growth'....

Kemi Badenoch is delivering her first speech of 2025 aimed at "rebuilding trust" within the party, hosted by centrist Tory think thank Onward at the

16/01/2025

David Lammy and Yvette Cooper have written to the Planning Inspectorate for England to support China's planning application to build a mega-embassy on the Royal Mint Court site, despite security concerns from Britain’s intelligence services that it could grant China access to vital communication cables. The letter states that the Metropolitan Police have suddenly decided to "withdraw their objection" to Beijing’s proposal....

David Lammy and Yvette Cooper have written to the Planning Inspectorate for England to support China's planning application to build a mega-embassy on the

16/01/2025

As growth remains stagnant with a less-than-expected 0.1% rise in November's GDP Rachel Reeves is right now hosting meetings in Downing Street to discuss ideas to boost growth. Attended only by state regulators... The lack of government press releases provides an indication of Labour's embarrassment at the stunt. Reeves is meeting with: Ofcom: The GB News-hating regulator which today…...

As growth remains stagnant with a less-than-expected 0.1% rise in November's GDP Rachel Reeves is right now hosting meetings in Downing Street to discuss

16/01/2025

Alastair Campbell's nephew Labour MP James Naish was due to ask a question in today’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport session in the Commons. Given that Alastair’s son, Rory Campbell, is currently embroiled in legal action over an alleged £5 million loss from a failed football betting syndicate — one in which helpfully his father stepped in to help by crafting a press release— Guido found it somewhat amusing that Rory’s cousin, Naish, was…...

Alastair Campbell's nephew Labour MP James Naish was due to ask a question in today’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport session in the

16/01/2025

On Monday Guido spotted that LibDem MP Rachel Gilmour had listed her son as a member of her parliamentary staff. When Guido reached out she immediately claimed he was offering unpaid assistance in setting up her office and referred herself to the Standards Commissioner... It turns out Rachel's not the only one. LibDem MP John Milne looks to have handed his son Oscar a staff pass too....

On Monday Guido spotted that LibDem MP Rachel Gilmour had listed her son as a member of her parliamentary staff. When Guido reached out she immediately

16/01/2025

They just can't help themselves. Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds was on the morning round today and decided to gloomily declare - just 4 days before Trump's inauguration - that Trump coming into office is going to be a "challenging time for anyone who is responsible for trade". He went on to say that he's "concerned" about any proposed trade tariffs because…...

They just can't help themselves. Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds was on the morning round today and decided to gloomily declare - just 4

16/01/2025

Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury is due to appear at Chester Magistrates Court this morning. Last November Amesbury was charged with common assault by Cheshire Police following an altercation in Frodsham on 26 October. The Runcorn and Helsby MP was a Labour shadow minister between 2018 and 2024...

Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury is due to appear at Chester Magistrates Court this morning. Last November Amesbury was charged with common assault by

16/01/2025

Starmer is in Kyiv today for a visit to Ukraine. A "landmark 100-year partnership" has been prepared to sign... It's the PM's first visit since he came to office 195 days ago and spent a working month jetting around the globe. Sunak visited within a month of entering Downing Street and Boris was there two months after the war started. …...

Starmer is in Kyiv today for a visit to Ukraine. A "landmark 100-year partnership" has been prepared to sign... It's the PM's first visit since he came to

16/01/2025

New figures from the Office for National Statitstics show that GDP grew by 0.1% in November last year after a 0.1% contraction the month before. A return to growth for Reeves comes after better-than-expected inflation news yesterday... Growth is less than the 0.2% that was expected. Services grew by 0.1%, production fell by 0.4% and construction grew by 0.4%. There was no growth in the three months to November. Limping along...

New figures from the Office for National Statitstics show that GDP grew by 0.1% in November last year after a 0.1% contraction the month before. A return

15/01/2025

The Teesside area lost out on massive investment recently thanks to China-owned British Steel scrapping plans to build a "green steel" furnace there. After talks with Labour ministers it's going to Scunthorpe... Mayor Ben Houchen raged against the change of plan and attacked the Scunthorpe plan as a "profound mistake with long-term consequences for our economy, local jobs and indeed our national security....

The Teesside area lost out on massive investment recently thanks to China-owned British Steel scrapping plans to build a "green steel" furnace there.

15/01/2025

There are four more years of this, but after six short months the front bench already looks like the fag-end of a government. The great officers of state sitting on the front bench cannot legally be described under current hate crime regulations. They’re out of ideas, out of options and everything they’ve done has produced the opposite of what they set out to do....

There are four more years of this, but after six short months the front bench already looks like the fag-end of a government. The great officers of state