Hope to see you on 6 June in Frankfurt as the @pfandbriefbanks, @ICMAgroup and The Covered Bond Report host our latest annual conference: icmagroup.org/events/the-cov…

Sunak taking a gamble on England enjoying a run to the Euro 2024 final after seeing Southgate drop Rashford and Hendo?

Tories going full Brazil 2014. Rishi "David Luiz" Sunak anyone? (And Boris "Nemyar" Johnson...)

That's quite something

"I think people know that I'm across the detail when it comes to numbers" 🫣🫠🤦‍♂️

I hear that in US college sport there are conventions allowing games to be stopped or shortened if one side has an insurmountable lead so as not to embarrass the other too severely

Great piece on what most peeps really, really want (not necessarily captured by the headline): ‘Polls show Starmer passes the key voter test Corbyn failed – does he respect me?’ – via LabourList labourlist.org/2024/06/labour…

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Nothing original in the design/direction (+especially music!) but if you're going for this kind of thing, I'd say this is how you do it: on-the-money text, visuals, editing supporting the message. Particularly like how the text transitions manage to stay appropriate/interesting.

This week is all about #Macronegonomics

Tim Bale You boy! Find me some candidates for Reform and make it snappy

It's depressing how these far left wags could surely have a good giggle over a beer with their far right counterparts

Maybe Labour 'B' team or Under 23s could be the official opposition?

I don't think you can blame Labour for the fiscal unrealism. Both parties are at it. And they are at it because people find economics and statistics and large numbers, and public policy, hard. Because it *is* hard and people have other things to do, lives to lead...

And herein lies the problem: see this WhatsApp from a senior No.10 aide. CCHQ didn't like me describing their gender focus as a "culture war" tactic last night. Seems questions are for hacks who write about issues in ways the Tories approve of. Not ideal for press freedom.

couldn’t make this up, beyond satire

Quote of the decade? “We have learned the hard way that politicians who we feel are just a little bit of a joke can be dangerous" theguardian.com/politics/artic…