The FT reports the National Crime Agency (NCA) reviewed fresh allegations about Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein as late as spring 2024, just months before Starmer appointed him as US ambassador. Downing Street was informed in the summer of 2024…
A senior British official arranged a meeting between the NCA and an American human rights activist claimed to have new information about Mandelson’s links to Epstein. The agency concluded the claims were “largely hearsay” and did not launch a full investigation. Mandelson got the job.
Cabinet Office permanent secretary Cat Little is in front of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee at 9.30. The saga rolls on…
Farage is at the Dodworth Central Social Club to make his “keynote campaign speech” of the local elections after a UK-wide tour. Watch along…
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Civil servants at Liz Kendall’s Department of Science, Innovation, and Technology have spent more than 2,000 more nights in hotels this year. At a commensurate cost to the taxpayer…
Guido’s FOI Unit has found that DSIT staff have spent almost £1.5 million on hotel stays in 2025/26 so far compared to only £1.1 million in the whole of the previous year. An average cost of £153 per night…
Ministers have so far this year spent 17 nights in hotels at a cost of £4,264. All for a Tech Secretary who doesn’t use AI…
Ambitious Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham is campaigning in London with allies of Angela Rayner.
Politics Home reports that Burnham is to head to Islington and Lewisham to do some door-to-door campaigning. Curiously Guido can report that three days after Angela Rayner went door-knocking in Peckham with leftist housing minister Miatta Fahbulleh, Burnham is doing exactly the same tomorrow afternoon. The Mayor of Manchester is free to discuss matters with Fahnbulleh in the streets of Camberwell…
Over the weekend Team Burnham’s briefers revived an idea from pre-Labour Conference that if Starmer’s personal poll ratings remain low he could hand over the reigns to Burnham after wrapping up sufficient foreign policy matters. More important for Burnham is wrestling control of Labour’s National Executive Committee from Starmer loyalists who blocked his attempt for a seat – circa 16 of the 40 NEC places are up for election in July…
Fahnbulleh served as a senior adviser to Rayner before entering the Commons. Burnham held talks with Rayner over the weekend. Both with their own weaknesses, the two teams could consider it in their interests to hammer out a leadership deal…
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.”