Mark Broad

BBC business digital and deployment editor. Ex Today programme business editor. Views are my own.

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

No10 manning the barricades tonight as calls from Labour MPs for Keir Starmer to quit grow louder.

Downing Street rolling out cabinet loyalists and former Labour general secretaries pledging their loyalty to the PM.

Will any big beasts break cover and demand he stand down? Doesn't feel like it at the moment.

[Paul Brand @PaulBrandITV]

NEW: Chair of the NEC Shabana Mahmood says Andy Burnham is a “fantastic mayor for Greater Manchester” and she “really appreciated” his letter to her yesterday, which was written in a “fair-minded way”.

“I play these things with a straight bat.”

Her lips are sealed for now.

[Aubrey Allegretti @breeallegretti]

Burnham's allies have in the past few weeks been ramping up efforts to clear a path back to Westminster.

I'm told they've been ringing round soft-left members of the NEC to check if they have the numbers to let him run for a seat.

https://t.co/zYTDkyh6op

[Robert Peston @Peston]

The legal advice to the BBC I am told is that President Trump was not meaningfully damaged by Panorama’s manipulation of his 6 January speech, and that therefore there is no legal necessity to pay him compensation.

The BBC board is therefore likely to resist and fight his demand to be “appropriately compensated” out of court, and will risk him carrying through on his threat to seek $1bn in damages by going to court.

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

Oh dear. Uk economy shrinks by 0.3% in April. Worst since Oct 2023 and worse than expected...

[PA Media @PA]

#Breaking Israeli strikes on tent camps near Rafah have killed at least 25 people and wounded 50, Gaza health officials and rescuers have said

[Chris Smyth @Smyth_Chris]

7 million people dragged into higher tax bands, OBR now says

Fiscal drag now due to raise £41.1 billion, twice what Hunt's 4p NI cuts raise

[Noor Nanji @NoorNanji]

After our investigation into sexual harassment at #McDonalds - more than 160 new allegations emerged. Now MPs will question the company about the claims. More online + across BBC News - with @zoeconway1 @markabroad @esylltcarr https://t.co/kJ18QST6g2

[Mark Broad @markabroad]

What a piece of work - Moments of reflection from a year of war - BBC correspondents covering the conflict in Ukraine recall the people and the moments that have stayed with them https://t.co/ASWYrbuVPA via @BBCNews

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

NEW

Governor Bailey really meant what he said about the pension funds having to accept that the government bond purchases are over … BBC briefly caught up with him on way out of the speech, and he said there was an “important task now for the funds to ensure they are done”…

[Ben Riley-Smith @benrileysmith]

It's not a windfall tax. It's a 'temporary targeted energy profits levy’.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

"Can I tow you back to Russia?"

Videos are circulating on social media of people in Ukraine standing up to Russian troops

https://t.co/ZjBzEjZddj

[Mark Broad @markabroad]

Waking up at 3am and fleeing Kyiv with her 10yr old son ... shocking and heartbreaking testimony from my BBC colleague in Ukraine, Marta Shokalo. https://t.co/RI57PXJyzy

[Mark Broad @markabroad]

@BBCJonSopel Get your whites out, Jon. You might get a game in the middle order in Hobart.

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

Twin supply shocks face UK, are raising prices immediately… while in best case widespread productivity driven wage rises will take years… risking a spiral in inflation

Blog, featuring National Living Wage rates, robot density stats & super deductions:

https://t.co/ckOZLRt8Yk

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

If I was the British government, I would be rather worried about this chart; very, very worried. UK natural gas has now breached the equivalent to $40 per million Btu barrier (~300 pence per therm). In oil terms, it's now trading above $230 per barrel of oil equivalent.

[Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak]

McDonald has not yet spoken to Starmer yet altho he says he’d made his unhappiness at the policy disagreement clear

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

BBC Moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford expelled from Russia “for the protection of the security of Russia”, officials claim
https://t.co/zsypSpP9aX

[Sarah Corker @SarahCorkerNews]

Also wrote this for ⁦@BBCNews⁩ on the impact of covid on career choices. Top advice from Cece Phillips: ‘Life is short, do something you love.’ She swapped a career at one of the biggest advertising agencies to try and make it as a full time artist. https://t.co/A0ZtkdPTMw