Labour has whacked up prices on multiple items across its party store over the past year, with inflation-busting hikes to the likes of stickers, rosettes, campaign posters and clipboards. These are today’s prices compared to February 2025…
“I’m Voting Labour” Sticker: £6 to £6.50
8.3% increase.
Listen, Change, Win Clipboard: £8 to £10
25% increase.
Labour Red Rosette: £2 to £3
50% increase.
Labour A2 Correx Poster: £40 to £45
12.5% increase.
They’ve added some fresh items more recently, like a “Making Work Pay” leaflet which costs a ridiculous £40. The 2024 manifesto remains at £12.50, so technically that’s lost some value. As if anyone didn’t know that already…
Starmer has just wrapped up his Commons statement on his jolly to Beijing and Japan. ‘Chief Secretary to the PM’ Darren Jones has been tasked with delivering a ministerial statement on the latest release of the Epstein Files instead. All Starmer has done so far is launch a ‘Lords Reform’ promise to avoid kicking Mandelson out of the Upper House and dodge scrutiny in the Commons…
Update: Darren Jones confirms the government is not seeking to remove Mandelson via primary legislation but is ‘calling on’ other parties in the Lords to help ‘modernise’ disciplinary procedures in the upper house. Red herring…
Guido’s list of every scandal Peter Mandelson got involved in has been updated with new material:
The US House oversight committee may want to explore what Mandelson can say about Jeffrey Epstein. The rule with Mandy is – this isn’t his last scandal…
Shouts of ‘more’ from the Chamber after that communist gag. Starmer looked like he’d swallowed a wasp…
The Epstein files show that Mandelson was leaking internal No10 documents and briefings to Epstein while Mandelson was working inside during Brown’s administration. The ex-PM now says:
“I have today asked the Cabinet Secretary to investigate the disclosure of confidential and market sensitive information from the then Business Department during the global financial crisis.
On September 10 last year, I wrote to the Cabinet Secretary to ask him to investigate the veracity of information contained in the Epstein papers about the sale of assets arising from the banking collapse and communications about them between Lord Mandelson and Mr Epstein.
That enquiry led to a response on November 19 that no departmental record could be found of any information or communication from Lord Mandelson to Mr Epstein on these issues.
Given the shocking new information that has come to light in the latest tranche of Epstein papers, including information about the transfer to Mr Epstein of at least one highly sensitive government document as well as other highly confidential information, I have now written to ask for a wider and more intensive enquiry to take place into the wholly unacceptable disclosure of government papers and information during the period when the country was battling the global financial crisis. Given the public interest in this, I have asked that the results of the enquiry be published and done so as soon as possible.”
Reminder: Mandelson was one of if not the key adviser to Labour during the Starmerite reconstruction…
Shadow national security minister Alicia Kearns told Times Radio she would have put a precondition on a China trip if she were PM:
“I would have put a precondition that I was not going to go if I was prime minister, unless Jimmy Lai was coming home with me. I would also put a precondition in the six months leading up to the visit that I wanted a reduction in hostile acts against our country. But that’s not what we saw. And actually, in contrast, what we saw was clearly the Chinese Communist Party did put a precondition, which was that the new embassy in London had to be signed off. So why is it okay for China to set preconditions and to make very clear red lines about what they require for a visit, but we go without having put any ourselves?”
