Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has defended the two officers who apprehended the knife-wielding terror suspect in Golders Green, after Zack Polanski retweeted a ridiculous claim yesterday that they had used excessive force to bring him down. Two heroes having to deal with a clown like Polanski suggesting they hadn’t done their job properly…
Rowley told Times Radio this morning:
“I need officers to feel they’ve got public confidence when they’re doing things like that. Of course there’s always going to be inaccuracies and nonsense on social media, but I think when somebody influential puts something out there which is incorrect and can undermine the confidence of my officers to protect Londoners, they need to see that I’m supporting them to give them that confidence to carry on and do their job.”
Asked if he was “interfering in politics”, Rowley said “I’m not intervening in politics. He was intervening in operational policing”…
Hacks at the Financial Times are in open dispute with management after being asked to come into the office four days a week. Apparently there is “no compelling case” to be at their desks for more than three…
Members of the FT’s union have unanimously voted to initiate the paper’s dispute procedure after managing editor Tobias Buck emailed staff with the dreaded proposals. According to the Guardian, the FT chapel of the National Union of Journalists held a “fiery meeting” with Buck to push the issue. The buck stops here…
The FT chapel said in an email to its members:
“The FT chapel believes that the edict comes at a time when, more than ever, our coverage depends on the goodwill and flexibility of editorial staff. [This has resulted] in efforts that have contributed to high productivity, audience engagement and profit.”
The union’s nuclear option is to ballot for strike action. They haven’t pulled that trigger – yet…
“If you stand alongside people who say Globalise the Intifada, you are calling for terrorism against Jews… I call on everyone decent in this country to open their eyes to Jewish pain.”
Policy promises:
The results for April:
Robert Jenrick takes the bronze medal this month, with Zia Yusuf and Lee Anderson very close behind. Danny Kruger misses out on a podium finish, although there’s not much in it. Of course Farage takes the gold, but Tice’s average score has risen despite the headlines about his tax affairs. Zahawi is last again, although his average score has ticked up as well… slightly.
Starmer is still squatting in Number 10, for now. But given how openly his Labour colleagues are pitching to succeed him, Guido is taking a closer look at what each of the leading candidates has to offer. Read at your own risk. First up, Andy Burnham…
Burnham has spent the last year telling anyone who will listen how Labour needs to take a “different path” and to be more “radical“. He did it again this morning. His fawning interview with the New Statesman just before Labour conference last year mapped out the fundamentals. Here’s what to expect if Burnham swipes the keys to Downing Street:
Nationalise the air we breathe, rejoin the EU, and borrow enough money to make even Rachel Reeves queasy. Feeling the Burn yet?
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”