How’ll this look after the party conferences? We are only a few weeks away from the party conference season and although the events have been truncated the big set pieces will be the speeches of Johnson and Starmer. For the latter has never been able to make a big speech in front of the party faithful since becoming the leader in April last year. His conference creates a huge opportunity to get himself more widely known and get the focus…
One of the big betting events in the run-up to Christmas is on the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year. Whenever this has taken place in the December after the summer Olympics then it is almost a certainty that who gets crowned will have played a big part in the games. This is how Betfair punters are currently seeing it and after Jason Kenny’s record-breaking seventh Gold yesterday morning he looks on course to make the running in the betting…
It has been a disastrous week for the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, following the publication of a report on his behaviour, at least eleven women were harassed by Governor Cuomo. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed numerous women on his staff or in his circle in Albany, repeatedly touching, grabbing or making inappropriate comments towards them and retaliating against at least one when she came forward with her story, according to a long-awaited investigative report from Attorney General Letitia…
According to an excellent long read by Tim Shipman in tomorrow’s Sunday Times last Monday morning at a meeting with aides the PM was apoplectic and raging about his Chancellor. This had been sparked by Sunak’s leaked letter to his boss a calling significant easing of the coronavirus travel restrictions and other measures. Shipman writes: In a fit of frustrated impotence, Johnson openly suggested that he might sack his chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak..The problem was that the first…
How will it go down in the “Red Wall” seats? If BoJo’s aim when he made his joke about pit closures was to get coverage for his Scottish trip then he has succeeded but he appears to have touched a raw nerve about one of the most difficult periods during the UK’s recent history. This is from the Independent: The prime minister was reported to have chuckled as he made the comment about his Tory predecessor’s wholesale closure of pits,…
This is the sort of comment that looks set to be remembered and could be damaging. In many ways he was right but he could have expressed himself very differently given the impact that the move away from coal had on many communities across Britain. This reinforces established perceptions that the Tories didn’t care. Paul Waugh in his Tweet above reckons that there will be a “clarification” from Number 10. The danger here is that this would focus attention on…