Humza Yousaf's tenure lasted 8.1 Liz Trusses

(Plus however long it takes to find a successor)

Everyone should watch Oz Katerji’s film The Battle for Kyiv. bylinetimes.com/2024/04/23/the…

🔴 Caroline Lucas Warns Labour Could Form ‘One-Term Government’ If Keir Starmer Isn’t Bold

Outgoing Green MP Caroline Lucas & Co-Leader Carla Denyer suggest gains for the party this week will put pressure on Labour to be radical, reports Josiah Mortimer

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It’s not hard to see why their circulation has plummeted. The Evening Standard’s politics has drifted so far out of touch with Londoners - not to mention the constant attacks on work from home in what is now a hybrid city

🔴 Conservative London Mayoral Candidate Susan Hall Suggests Labour’s Sadiq Khan Will Win in ‘Desperate’ Leaflet Accused of Voter Suppression

The Tory campaign in the capital has been accused of more ‘underhand’ campaign tactics, Olly Haynes reports

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I wouldn’t be surprised if these pieces were written by AI tbh. It’s not journalism, it’s content farming

Reupping as this is being shared again

NEW: GB News co-lead investor Sir Paul Marshall has been replaced on the board of the broadcaster’s owner by Tory Lord Theodore Agnew, a former Treasury and Cabinet Office minister pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media…

New research: Government coffers could be boosted by £30bn a year by the end of the decade if it goes ahead with plans for a digital pound, according to analysis from research and campaign group Positive Money

The Guardian reports that Treasury officials fear that unless Thames Water is renationalised as soon as possible, “prolonged uncertainty about its fate could damage confidence in UK plc at a sensitive time” - triggering a huge spike in Govt borrowing costs. A trap for Labour?

Playbook reports from a left-wing Labour insider that defector Dan Poulter MP “has often crossed picket lines to work as a doctor during recent NHS strikes”. Will not go down well with members

Interesting how no one ever challenges Reform UK’s policy of nationalising the energy industry. If Labour said this, the Telegraph and Mail might not be so kind to them

Barred (ex) Labour candidate Jamie Driscoll stands a fairly decent chance of winning the new North East mayoralty

On the anti-ULEZ Facebook groups run by Tory staffers: if they were designed to sway London elections, by law they should have an imprint saying who’s promoting it (they don’t) theguardian.com/politics/2024/…