Rob Newman

Having seen this show multiple times, MPs will be asking themselves “can I get a better job?” And “will the new leader swing the way my heart desires?” Labour MPs will do themselves and the country a favour if they use their heads and ask every leadership contender these questions: 1) What is your plan? Not the vibes or the direction of travel. The actual policies they will prioritise 2) How will you communicate this plan to the voters? (MPs ask yourself if the candidate is a good communicator because without that they are lost) 3) Who is your team to enact this plan both a) in the key cabinet posts and b) in Downing Street. At a bare minimum they should have identified a chief of staff and a director of communications 4) How will your plan persuade the markets not to blow up the government on the launching pad? If you don’t get proper answers to all these questions move on. Unless they have good answers to all these questions you will be installing another dud

Declan Rice being booed by West Ham fans for captaining them to a European trophy, leaving on good terms, fetching a £105m fee, and not bad mouthing them since. Seems about right.

I was out canvassing in an area where there is absolutely no threat of Reform winning, and told by several that Labour’s main argument for voting for them is, if you don’t vote for us you’ll get Reform… utter lies. Churchfields residents and others across London, I hope you’re not buying this! Labour have nothing positive to say for their record in government or running Redbridge council so have to resort to lying. Desperate and harmful.