| 1. Mike Wood | CON |
| 2. Calvin Bailey | LAB |
| 3. Patrick Hurley | LAB |
| 4. Ben Obese-Jecty | CON |
| 5. Meg Hillier | LAB |
| 6. Martin Rhodes | LAB |
| 7. Richard Foord | LIB |
| 8. Lincoln Jopp | CON |
| 9. Jenny Riddell-Carpenter | LAB |
| 10. Vicky Foxcroft | LAB |
| 11. Luke Akehurst | LAB |
| 12. Oliver Ryan | LAB |
| 13. Rushanara Ali | LAB |
| 14. Rachael Maskell | LAB |
Some damning research from Ipsos’ tracker, which shows that optimism in the economy is at its lowest level since records began:
“Net economic optimism in Britain has fallen to the lowest levels ever recorded since Ipsos began collecting this data in 1978. 78% of Brits expect the economy to get worse over the next 12 months, 12% think it will stay the same, and just 6% think it will improve – giving a net Ipsos economic optimism index score of -72.”
Are the securonomics in the room with us right now?
For Lambeth – Morgan McSweeney and Steve Reed’s original hunting ground against the hard left – to go Green would rock what ideological basis exists for the Starmer project. Revolutions are infinite…
Baroness Margaret Hodge, Labour’s ‘Anti-Corruption Champion,’ told Newsnight last night that No10’s efforts to secure an ambassador job for Matthew Doyle were entirely fair:
“If somebody you’re working with is about to lose your job, there’s nothing wrong I think in saying ‘Are there any other jobs available’ as long as you know that he could apply for going through due process to get those jobs… there’s nothing wrong with friends saying ‘are there any jobs around,’ what I do think was wrong was saying that they shouldn’t have told the Foreign Secretary I think that was wrong.”
Not even Pat McFadden took that line…
An excruciating morning round for Pat McFadden. First on Times Radio, where he was asked three times if it was “fair” for Starmer to sack Olly Robbins. Eventually, the blood from a stone answer came:
“Look, of course as a Cabinet member, I support the Prime Minister’s decisions. He took the decision he couldn’t continue with Olly Robbins in post because he viewed the material that had been withheld from him, not shared with him, as really important in making his decision…”
Then on Sky News, it turned out McFadden hadn’t even asked Number 10 if it was true that Starmer asked for an ambassadorship for Matthew Doyle. It took almost three minutes for an answer to emerge:
“No, because I don’t think the Prime Minister would be in the position of picking up a phone on a personnel matter like that…”
You know it’s bad when even Pat McFadden is dropping word salads…
Douglas Alexander – a friend of Starmer’s – was asked on Sky News if the PM will be in post at the next election. He wasn’t so sure himself:
“I think he will. There are no certainties but of course I think he will lead and I think he should because, frankly, on the biggest call in this parliament he’s exercised the right judgment, which is to keep us out of someone else’s war.”
