[Boiler]

What the fuck...?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Means nothing. He'll know stuff about what happened when he was there. Would be odd if they didn't consult him. The Independent is a shitty clickbait outfit.

In other news.

Ministers are considering handing over billions of pounds raised by business rates to regional mayors as part of one of the biggest shake-ups of the English tax system in recent years.

Steve Reed, the local government secretary, said the government was working on plans to devolve the tax, which has been the subject of recent protests by pubs and other hospitality businesses.

We keep hearing that "the Treasury" doesn't allow this sort of thing. I'm never convinced that "The Treasury" means anything much beyond "the Chancellor of the Exchequer", but I guess we'll see. Rachel Reeves seemed to change the fiscal rules without too much of a backlash.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

The word 'advising' is doing a lot of heavy lifting...