Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase
https://t.co/j9EEUb5vjd
🚨 @PickardJE of @FT gets to the heart of Starmer’s Brexit deceit:
“Are you ruling out single market or customs union membership at the next election? Because without either, our economy is very much not at the heart of Europe.”
Starmer’s answer: more vague waffle about a “big leap forward” at the summit, turning our back on past arguments, and “looking forward together.”
You can’t be meaningfully “at the heart of Europe” while refusing the economic structures that define that relationship.
What's to celebrate? Harborne lives and pays his taxes in Thailand - his 'charity' involves a secret £5m (!) to Nigel Farage personally.
This degree of personal bankrolling and enrichment is unprecedented in our democracy. A scandal hiding in plain sight https://t.co/maRks88jMO
I just asked Keir Starmer if Lord Mandelson has questions to answer on this:
“I don’t know any more than you and there’s not really much I can add to what is already out there I’m afraid”
“The bank’s probe…..suggests that in June 2009, when he was the UK business secretary, Mandelson stayed at Epstein’s lavish townhouse in Manhattan, while the financier was in prison for soliciting prostitution from a minor.”
https://t.co/9Sox3HHrIj
BREAKING: Nigel Farage has purchased £2m of Bitcoin for Stack BTC - becoming the first sitting MP and the first UK political party leader in history to publicly buy Bitcoin.
A landmark moment for Bitcoin in British politics.
$STAK @Nigel_Farage@blockchain@kwasi_stackbtc #bitcoin
More details here about David Taylor, and the awkward questions that the three arrests today — all of former Labour advisers — raises for the party
W/ @PickardJE, @RKWinvisibleman & Sam Jones
https://t.co/2cAT5bGsNp
"A lack of curiosity..."
@nicholaswatt recalls a 2024 press conference in which Keir Starmer was asked about Peter Mandelson’s association with Jeffrey Epstein, and reports concerns among female Labour MPs about the Prime Minister's judgement.
#Newsnight
In case you're struggling with the paywall, here's this morning's story about Starmer, Mandelson and Palantir. The FT is pretty much the only UK media source to emerge from this omniscandal with its reputation enhanced
Here's what we know about the Cabinet Office's propriety and ethics document on Lord Mandelson
* It's just two pages long. Someone familiar with it says it's a 'word doc that has been copied and pasted from Google. It is not sophisticated'
* It includes a @PickardJE FT scoop from 2023 about Mandelson staying in Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2009 - crucially after Epstein's conviction
* As per @PronouncedAlva it also includes a precis of his previous scandals and a run-through of Global Counsel's Russian and Chinese interests
* Officials think it is 'insane' that it was the only vetting that was conducted before the prime minister announced his appointment
* But as cursory as it is the document is hugely damaging for the prime minister. It shows that he pushed ahead with the appointment of Mandelson despite being told about his friendship with Epstein
Tomorrow is the first anniversary of Peter Mandelson's big pre-Washington interview, when he claimed questions about Epstein were "an FT obsession" adding: "You can all f*** off."
https://t.co/Ss3gbbhg7T
The only reason Peter Mandelson is no longer our Ambassador in Washington is because the Conservative Party shamed the Government into acting. Keir Starmer was forced to fire him.
But the Government have refused to set out how exactly he came to be appointed in the first place.
If Keir Starmer had a backbone he would suspend Mandelson’s membership of the Labour Party and launch an immediate investigation into how Mandelson and his husband were being sent money by the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. At the time Mandelson was Labour's Business Secretary and acting as Deputy Prime Minister.
This is an international scandal. The cover up needs to end. The Prime Minister must act.