It is Earth Day and Guido is reminded of all the posturing big firms have done to spin their green credentials. Branson’s non-existent $3 billion pledge to tackle climate change, businesses jetting their executives to COP28 in Dubai to sign a letter telling governments to spend more taxpayer cash on net zero.[…] Read the rest ..read more

Following Chris Cash being charged under the Official Secrets Act for espionage, Guido was reminded of Cash’s former colleague Alicia Kearns and her role in the China Research Group. Cash was a director of the company until he resigned last summer, then Alicia Kearns took over the role as a director.[…] Read the rest ..read more

Eagle-eyed observers will have noticed that not only did Angela Rayner brave the cameras and get a standing ovation from Labour activists at the official launch of Sadiq Khan’s mayoral campaign, her supposedly ex-boyfriend Sam Tarry was there too. Tarry tweeted that he was “Incredibly proud to join Sadiq Khan and London Labour MPs, London Assembly Members, and Councillors to launch Sadiq’s brilliant pledges that will help millions of Londoners, from children just born to the oldest Londoners.”[…] Read the rest ..read more

While the BBC license fee payers dig deep into their pockets to cover the increased fee, they can take solace knowing that their hard-earned cash is helping top-tier journalists enjoy Italian getaways. One senior BBC executive couldn’t help but boast of her swanky Italian conference she and her fellow colleagues attend on an annual basis.[…] Read the rest ..read more

Lindsay Hoyle has slapped down Housing Secretary Michael Gove for his eloquent tirade against the Scottish National Party. SNP MP Anum Qaisar delivered a mundane enough question attacking promoting the SNP’s spending plans and attacking bankers’ bonuses. Gove didn’t hold back in his response… “I think SNP press releases have suffered recently as a result of the travails that the chief executive of that party has been suffering, but as SNP press releases go that has to be one of the weakest I’ve ever heard in this house. […] Read the rest ..read more

Labour’s candidate for East Midlands Mayor appears to have abused her position on a local NHS Trust board of Directors in her bid to win over voters. Claire Ward, former “Blair Babe” turned Chair of the Board of Directors for the Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust shamelessly boasted from her campaign account about “welcoming” Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting to King’s Mill Hospital – a team she “helps to lead”.[…] Read the rest ..read more

The BBC has just announced Huw Edwards’ resignation “on medical advice”. He was taken off air last July following allegations he was paying for explicit pictures. A few months ago the Met Police wouldn’t say who is under investigation…[…] Read the rest ..read more

Starmer has written to Labour’s PPCs ahead of St. George’s day tomorrow instructing them to mark the occasion “with enthusiasm” and to “fly the flag”. If they’ve already got in a tizzy over the Union Flag on leaflets how will they cope with this…
 Fresh polling on Sunday carried out by Lord Ashcroft reveals that one in eight 2019 Labour voters say that the St George Cross is racist.[…] Read the rest ..read more

The Crown Prosecution Service has announced Chris Cash, former staffer for Alicia Kearns, has been charged with “providing prejudicial information to a foreign state, China,” alongside another man, Christopher Berry. The Met is authorised to carry out the charges after an “extremely complex investigation into what are very serious allegations”… Cash and Berry are set to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday.[…] Read the rest ..read more

Sadiq Khan’s team have launched an acidic “Cost of the Tories Report,” claiming Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall has a yearly black hole of £515 million in her pledges to scrap the wallet-hitting ULEZ expansion, pay-per-mile and push to accommodate the revellers with a Night Tube extension.[…] Read the rest ..read more