If you want to compare a mistake over a work phone at 24, on a graduate scheme, that ended in a conditional discharge, with a ยฃ5 million bribe from a crypto billionaire in Thailand on your way to Parliament then letโs do that. Louise Haigh resigned. When is Reform picking a new leader ?
Can I just say, as someone who has lived in a fairly under resourced part of the far South West, at no point have the commentariat deigned to give a shit about that area - until it was a chance to bash Labour/Burnham.
EXC: Sunday Times read on Burnham's preparations for power
*Policy work continuing at pace. Burnham has privately committed to scrapping jury trial reforms and his team are examining how to tighten the prison early release scheme to exclude child sex offenders
*The long-awaited meeting between Burnham and Shabana Mahmood โ one of two frontrunners for chancellor โ took place this week. Wes Streeting, meanwhile, is currently slated for foreign secretary
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Upon my election, I was required to declare the ยฃ2400 per month I had earned working full time for the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
The suggestion that this same principle would not apply to literally millions of pounds in 'gifts' is an interesting defence from Farage.
Where are the people who support Andy Burnham, Lucy Powell, Lisa Nandy, Wes Streeting. I donโt see any of them on here. All I see is some very angry ex Labour supporters/voters. Put your hands up if you read this and you think theyโre great.
Insight, the Sunday Times investigation team, can reveal that Cottrell is involved in an offshore crypto gambling platform implicated in potential criminal betting in the UK
He is also seeking a pardon from Trump
๐จ NEW: Nigel Farage appears to have breached MP rules after failing to declare that convicted criminal George Cottrell paid for his staff, security and social media output before 2024 election
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Neoliberal YIMBYs: We want more housing.
Andy Burnham: Okay, weโre going to increase the building of council homes.
Neoliberal YIMBYs: no, not like that.