Guido Fawkes

Lucy Powell on LBC, asked by Tom Swarbrick for her reaction to Labour MP Samantha Niblett’s call for a ‘summer of sex’ debate in Parliament: “I personally don’t own any sex toys, but each to their own… I’m not really sure that’s the right place for it, no.”

The day after Starmer U-turned and refused to blame Trump for the war Rachel Reeves told the Mirror: “Obviously no sensible person is a supporter of the Iranian regime, but to start a conflict without being clear what the objectives are and not being clear about how you are going to get out of it, I do think that is a folly and it is one that is affecting families here in the UK but also families in the US and around the world.”

As Labour gears up to trumpet its cession of more sovereignty to the EU the Cabinet Office has treated its ‘EU Reset Unit’ staff to an away day. Relax while you can, you’re the gambit that’s meant to save Starmer’s premiership now… The ‘EU Relations Secretariat’ in the Cabinet Office numbers around 80 staff and is now the heart of Starmer’s pitch to SecurEUcracy.

German Politico owner Axel Springer’s £575 million purchase of the Telegraph has been approved by the government. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said in a written Commons statement: “In my quasi-judicial role I have assessed the proposed merger between Axel Springer and the Telegraph Media Group Holdings Ltd under the public interest media mergers regime and the foreign state influence regime as set out in the Enterprise Act 2002.

The day after Starmer U-turned and refused to blame Trump for the war Rachel Reeves told the Mirror: “Obviously no sensible person is a supporter of the Iranian regime, but to start a conflict without being clear what the objectives are and not being clear about how you are going to get out of it, I do think that is a folly and it is one that is affecting families here in the UK but also families in the US and around the world.”

Traumatised Labour has not yet started the recruitment process for a new director general in the Propriety and Constitution Group of the Cabinet Office. This is usually a powerful role for a civil servant which can decide political fates and deals with a lot of sensitive events in the day-to-day of Whitehall… The post was previously staffed by Darren Tierney, who was rated as capable, before he left to run the ONS in August last year.

Ex-Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced she is joining asylum seeker charity Safe Passage International as chairman of its board of trustees. Something to do after finally stepping down as an MSP… Sturgeon will join the embattled charity, which last year lost its CEO, chairman, and another trustee in quick succession.

Speaking at an IPPR think tank event in London, the Health Secretary compared striking junior doctors to mutinous sailors. “I feel like we’ve turned the ship, the boat’s going in the right direction, except some of the crew are trying to row in one direction while the rest of us are going in the other. You can’t make progress that way.

Starmer said to Robert Peston this afternoon: “I’m fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy businesses bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world.”

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