Housing Secretary Steve Reed speaking to Laura Kuenssberg this morning:
“There is no specific assessment that the Iranians are targeting the UK or [that they] even could if they wanted to…”
On why Israel claimed Iran had that capability:
“You would need to speak to the Israelis… Whatever people might say, the UK is not going to be dragged into this war, but we will take appropriate collective defensive action to keep our nationals and our interests safe.”
He refused to admit how close the Iranian bombs came to hitting Diego Garcia. No getting into “operational details”…
This week 941,770 visitors visited 839,618 times viewing 909,111 pages. The most read and shared stories in order of popularity were:
- Ofcom Fines 4chan £520,000, Lawyer Responds With Picture of Giant Hamster
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You’re either in front of Guido, or you are behind…
The results are in for Guido’s inaugural Reform league table:
- Nigel Farage (10.68)
- Richard Tice (8.52)
- Danny Kruger (8.20)
- Robert Jenrick (8.10)
- Zia Yusuf (8.03)
- Lee Anderson (7.87)
- Suella Braverman (7.23)
- Laila Cunningham (6.79)
- Sarah Pochin (6.34)
- Andrew Rosindell (5.44)
- Andrea Jenkyns (5.37)
- Luke Campbell (4.54)
- Nadhim Zahawi (3.90)
This ranking is based on how 1032 co-conspirators ordered each politician, with a higher weighted average score indicating a higher preference. Obviously Farage is at the top, but it was a close fight for second. Tice takes the silver medal, Kruger gets the bronze, and Jenrick just about misses out on a podium finish. Zahawi is dead last. There’s always next month…
As threatened and as Guido had noted earlier, Mauritius’s Deputy Prime Minister Paul Berenger has resigned overnight. His action follows a phone call with Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam yesterday…
The Mauritius government – which is a fractured coalition – may now collapse. Another nail in the coffin for Starmer’s Chagos deal, it’s beginning to become difficult to know which Mauritian faction he should associate with…
All good news for British taxpayers. Thanks to the Save Chagos effort by co-conspirators, not a single penny has yet been transferred to the Mauritius exchequer…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”
