Sadiq Khan kicked off the month by complaining about Robert Jenrick’s mega-viral Tube fare-dodging video. Which stands out as the political video of the year…
Then came the Strategic Defence Review, which has since mostly fallen apart thanks to funding vagaries. That could be expected seeing as Starmer could not specify a date on which the government would reach its fresh commitment to spend 3% on defence. The Tories raged meanwhile at the early provision of SDR copies to industry chums and the unions…
Zia Yusuf resigned in acrimony as chairman of Reform following internal scuffles before rejoining the party two days later. He would go on to become head of policy. Yusuf subsequently backed a ban on the burqa, Sarah Pochin’s call for which led to a public row immediately prior to his resignation…
Starmer had a breakdown and ‘dropped a Baldwin‘ – blaming his staff (read: Morgan McSweeney) for the ‘island of strangers‘ quote in his speech on migration the month before. The human windsock fluttered to life briefly to recant a line the majority of the public actually agrees with – genius…
The Winter Fuel U-turn was announced after its briefing in May. Darren Jones – now the ‘voice of Keir’ in government – revealed Labour thinking on the small boats issue with his impassioned remarks on Question Time that those crossing were mostly “children, babies, women.” He later said he “could have been clearer“…
Guido got wind of the imminent publication of Louise Casey’s ‘audit’ into the Rape Gangs and as a result its publication was accelerated. The resulting document damned the entire establishment’s response to the crimes over many years and raised ethnicity as a specific driving factor. Starmer tried to get ahead of matters by announcing a national inquiry into rape gangs, seven months after action was first called for…
Problems with the Chagos Surrender Deal began to bubble to the surface as the UN Human Rights Council – stuffed with the exact people Labour is trying to please with the giveaway – condemned it on numerous grounds. Guido also got wind of the incoming deal between Labour, the government of Gibraltar, and the Spanish. Handing heaps of control to the latter…
The most spectacular fireworks came at the end of the month when the government executed an authority-decimating climbdown on welfare reform in the face of backbench opposition. The bill passed after all of the cuts to welfare were removed. The reverberations of the event are still felt painfully in Starmer’s operation today. Big changes to No10 personnel ensued after a blame game pointed the finger (mostly) at political director Clare Reynolds…
The government began the long pitch-roll for tax hikes at the Budget – which were coming anyway – after that. At the end of the month Guido also revealed that the government was finalising a ‘One in, One out’ small boat migrants return deal, with the French grinding down the figure for the number of people to be returned. More on that later…
Honourable Mentions
Kyle: Reeves Turning Around UK’s Finances ‘Like Steve Jobs Did for Apple’
Israel Detains Greta Thunberg On Board Gaza Stunt Yacht
Emily Maitlis Claims Iran War Wouldn’t Happen if Women Were in Charge
Headline of the Month
Labour ‘Rising Star’ MP Apologises After Pretending to Eat at Constituency Chippy
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