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WATCH: Defence Secretary John Healey Unsure How Many Ships Are In Royal Navy

Painful…

MPs’ Register of Interests: Farage Coins It on Cameo and Rayner Rakes It In

The latest update to the Register of Members’ Financial Interests is out. See who has the deepest pockets… Nigel Farage trousered £42,549 from his Cameo video recordings, which must have upset the Guardian. His attempted trip to the Chagos islands – Farage registered it as a “humanitarian aid mission” – cost £25,000, courtesy of Reform…

Starmer Dismisses ‘Far-Fetched’ Questioning Over Timing of McSweeney Phone Theft

Starmer has claimed this morning that it is “a little bit far-fetched” to draw a link between the timely theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone and the Mandelson files. The quote is vintage Starm-bot: “Well the phone was stolen. It was reported to the police. There’s a transcript of the call in which Morgan McSweeney gives…

Net Zero Ministers Generated Four Times Annual Household Emissions Flying to Climate Talks

DESNZ spent £64,376 flying ministers around the world in just three months, burping out around 22 tonnes of CO2 equivalent into the atmosphere. Almost all of it was on trips to climate conferences. That is the ministerial bill alone. As the Mail revealed, the full cost of the department’s COP30 delegation came to more than…

New BBC Director-General Matt Brittin Vows to ‘Earn Public’s Trust’

Former Google executive Matt Brittin is the new Director General of the BBC. He starts on the 18th May. His statement: “Now, more than ever, we need a thriving BBC that works for everyone in a complex, uncertain and fast changing world. At its best, it shows us, and the world, who we are. It’s…

Simon’s Sketch: Bombastic-Fantastic, the PM’s Resurrection Is Horrible To Behold

The PM’s increasingly unbearable Commons performances are going down remarkably well among his backbenches. Today, they joined him in a congregational chorus of Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! when encouraged to hate the leader of the Opposition (how unBritish these public prayer meetings are). Starmer’s turnaround is extraordinary. Tory Peter Fortune noted that as parliament was heading…

READ IN FULL: McSweeney’s Call Transcript to Police After Phone Theft

No mention that he happened to be the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff… Call handler: Police, what’s your emergency? McSweeney: Oh, hello, someone just robbed my phone. Call handler: Did they actually take it from you just now? McSweeney: Yeah Call handler: How did they get away? McSweeney: So he’s on a bike. He’s come…

Now It’s Miliband’s Turn for a Glossy New Statesman Profile

Ed Miliband scores the cover interview for this week’s New Statesman. He finally joins the ever-growing list of Labour MPs who have, by pure coincidence, decided now is the time for a puff piece in which they pontificate about Labour’s problems, speak wistfully about their childhoods, and pose for weird pictures. If you want a…

Labour to Suspend Crypto Donations to Political Parties to ‘Protect Democracy’

Starmer has confirmed to the Commons that the government will follow the recommendations from a review by Philip Rycroft to cap foreign donations to political parties at £300,000, and temporarily block all donations received via cryptocurrency: “I can tell the house, we will act decisively to protect our democracy. That will include a moratorium on…

WATCH: Starmer Holds Head in Hands in PMQs Disaster

Starmer’s worst performance in a long time, and the bar is low. There is always a “process” that stops him doing anything. Always another ‘review’. Is he aware he lives in Number 10?

LIVE: PMQs

Starmer’s Ex-Spinner Torches Labour Over Migrant Benefits and Debt Delusion

Starmer’s former top spinner Paul Ovenden has written another punchy intervention in the Times this morning, attacking Labour directly for fighting to give ‘Boriswave’ migrants “lifetime benefits, paid out of the pockets of other already hard-up, fed-up constituents” and warning Britain “can no longer borrow our way out of every difficulty“. Is anyone in the…