Warren Bennett
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@WLBennett
Commercial Director & MD, politico, Views expressed are my own. RT not an endorsement.
There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer. In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll. We won because the Tories imploded in 2024.
PM interview. How was Starmer? Pretty resolute and unbending - When asked if 1/ He was Labour's problem, 2/ Is taking responsibility resigning, 3/Is he handing the country to Reform by staying as PM, he had one consistent answer: "I am not going to walk away and plunge the country into chaos". This I read as a clear, and rather defiant message, to those who are privately saying he has to go, basically he's saying come and try it and then see what comes next. There was a bloody minded steeliness in him today - And as for succession. He also clear he is NOT setting out any timetable to stand down: I will fight the next general election. - How did he seem? Clearly wanted to show he was putting up fight & listening to activists. He told them it was tough and essentially said he had to better. But in tone during the interview, he also seemed quite tense and was batting away the Qs with his message to MPs and the party, with little acknowledgement of the predicament he's in. I imagine some MPs will be frustrated and think he doesn't get it - he's going to be doing more in coming days to convince them he does
🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer says he will not "walk away" and "plunge the country into chaos" "These results reflect voters who don't feel their lives have changed enough. We were elected to do with that - and I'm not going to walk away from that"
EXCLUSIVE: A man has been arrested on suspicion of trying to sell Morgan McSweeney’s stolen mobile phone, The Times can disclose McSweeney, the prime minister’s then chief of staff, contacted 999 on October 20 last year and reported that a “government device” had been stolen. He said he gave chase but the thief, who was riding a bicycle, got away. Police recorded the wrong address for the crime, assuming it had taken place on a road with a similar name five miles away in east London rather than in central London. McSweeney was given a crime reference number and the case was closed. Police reopened their investigation after details of the incident were disclosed by The Sun on Sunday The theft of the device means that the bulk of McSweeney’s WhatsApp messages will not be released as part of the government’s disclosure of correspondence with Lord Mandelson, the former ambassador to the United States There were questions at the time about whether the phone had been stolen at all On Wednesday a 28-year-old man was arrested in Peckham, south London, on suspicion of selling McSweeney’s phone after it was stolen. The phone has not been found A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: “Officers investigating the theft of a mobile phone in Belgrave Road, Pimlico on 20th October 2025 have arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of handling stolen goods. “The arrest took place on Wednesday, 29th April at an address in Peckham. The man was taken into police custody and later bailed. He is suspected of receiving the phone after it was stolen and then selling it on. He is not suspected of any involvement in the original theft. The phone has not been recovered.” thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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