Michael Knowles

🚨 NEW: Catherine West says Keir Starmer could win a leadership contest and does not rule out voting for him "Many of us like Keir very much... he's got excellent credentials on the international stage"

There is NOTHING in the King’s Speech about implementing the Government’s vaunted ILR reforms Is this because Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer are too scared of their own militant backbenchers to legislate for their own policy?

Millwall vs Millwall last night... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

New: Andy Burnham has just dropped out of a second conference this week He had been due to speak at an event in Manchester tomorrow - comes after he was spotted in London + reports that he's preparing to meet MPs

It seems what happened at cabinet is Keir Starmer sought to hold off a rebellion there and then Cabinet sources say he indicated he didn’t want to have a big discussion about his position in that meeting, and that if they wanted to talk about it they should see him individually

Andy Burnham has been spotted on a train to London 👀👀

Reeves pulls out of 30-minute fireside chat with the Lady Mayor at the City of London Global Risks Summit according to Steph Spyro.

I copied Starmer's speech into ChatGPT and asked whether it sounded like it was written by ChatGPT 🤖 The reply: "Parts of it do read as AI-assisted, not because the ideas are generic, but because of the rhythm, repetition structure, and over-signposted emotional cadence." 1/4

The asylum backlog has also more than halved. Odd that such progress is barely mentioned by Labour.