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Prosecutors told the Old Bailey today:
Kerry appeared by video link from Belmarsh. He is accused of plotting attacks against other politicians and trying to enter Farage’s home in London 15 months before murdering Ann Widdecombe…
The Welsh Government, led by Labour before Plaid, has spent thousands on such luxurious items as visits to Cannes for the film festival, whisky tasting in France, and campervans at festivals. Devolution going about as well as expected…
An FOI to the Welsh Government fired by the Reform Party has picked up the spending on the government’s credit card. This is only from May to June. Plaid came in on 13th May:
Reform UK Wales’s Shadow Minister for Finance, Cai Parry-Jones, told Guido:
“Wales’s education system is falling behind and our NHS is on its knees, yet the Plaid Cymru government can find money for whisky tasting in France, Cannes Film Festival tickets and campervan hire. Taxpayers deserve answers as to why public money is being spent on these luxuries while our public services are failing.”
The more government, the more shenanigans…
Things are hotting up for the most irrelevant party in British politics. The LibDems are beginning to register a pulse…
The party’s treasury spokesman Charlie Maynard resigned this morning. The party’s care and carers spokesman Alison Bennett also stepped down this week…
Deputy leader Daisy Cooper told the FT: “We Liberal Democrats are the last line of defence against a Reform UK government and Ed is determined to lead a strong and united party into the next general election.” The cosy-up-to-Labour election…
Parliament comes back next week. It’s all coming to a head…
Labour held Holborn and St Pancras last night which means Camden Council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali will go to the Commons. Presumably to continue her long-held campaign to introduce more illegal immigrants to Camden…
In a fundraising email sent after her selection on 9 September 2026, Abdi-Wali promoted her record of £670 million for council housing and “helping make Camden a Borough of Sanctuary.” She added: “Now, I want to take that fight to Parliament.” Oh boy…
Camden’s Borough of Sanctuary grants handed £58,000 to 12 organisations in June 2025. Among them:
That was just the proof of concept. In March 2026 the council topped the programme up with £370,000 for 2026-27, which Abdi-Wali called “essential”. Camden’s sanctuary objectives also include lobbying for “safe routes of entry into the UK”. It’s just activism…
Standing for Camden Square in 2022, she pledged “10 new sanctuary homes for refugees”, and residents trained as “sanctuary ambassadors”. When Camden won sanctuary status in 2024 she said the borough was “more vibrant and improved thanks to the refugees we have welcomed”. Weeks after she became leader this year, Camden’s libraries were declared “Libraries of Sanctuary” too. Not to mention instituting an ‘inclusion calendar‘…
The council’s housing strategy, run by Abdi-Wali as Cabinet Member for Better Homes, records 98 homes acquired for refugees while more than 8,000 people sit on the waiting list. Priorities…
Before all that, as chair of the local CLP in 2020, she was first signatory to a letter claiming Britain was not free of the “guilt or sin of institutionalised and systemic racism”. In 2019 she wrote of the “socialist principles by which I stand”. Full-throated…
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp told Guido:
“Sagal Abdi-Wali seems more interested in handing out public money to illegal immigrants than in looking after the interests of British taxpayers. Families in Camden are struggling to make ends meet, but Labour’s answer is higher taxes to bankroll activist causes and pet projects.”
Still – better than Zack Polanski…
The Government has confirmed its intention to bring forward a Water Reform Bill, ending what Andy Burnham called a Thatcherite “ideological ban” limiting government ownership of shares in England’s big water and sewerage companies. In reality, no statutory ban has ever actually existed…After Labour conference the impact on markets and on the taxpayer, has started to become clear. Buried in the small print of the latest Fitch Ratings verdict is a warning. Any major concern about the regulator’s independence, or the possibility of political interference in how tariffs are set, “may trigger a negative review of sector risk“. Keep flirting with nationalisation and the whole sector gets more expensive to finance…Water companies are already paying more to borrow as the bond traders price in political uncertainty. South East Water recently had to abandon an attempt to raise more money. South West Water-owner Pennon’s share price tanked the other week after the company cut its dividend to put more money into investment. Six months ago the market was cheering water firms for spending more on their networks, now it’s the opposite. The cost of political uncertainty will end up pushing up consumer bills, whether Burnham gets his nationalisation drive or not…
Kemi Badenoch at the 1922-ConHome bash last night:
“I did praise [Burnham] for his stamina, it was amazing. All I had to do was sit back and lie there. I didn’t have to do anything at all…”