[Tubby Isaacs]

I see Raphael Behr has become the latest to bemoan "red lines" on Europe. Yet the only one that matters seems to be on Freedom of Movement. How can the response to the local elections (with a higher turnout than normal) be Freedom of Movement? It won't be, whoever takes over from Starmer. There are more specific arguments on student fees, visa numbers that are holding back agreement on the reset, but these don't strike me as anything bigger than you normally get in these discussions. They'll get resolved, probably a month or two later than they could have done, but does that matter that much?

The Kings Speech will apparently have a bill on dynamic alignment. This is a huge principle to concede. Behr can read his own paper as well as I can. Why do none of these commentators mention that, but keep coming up with the same stuff about how Kipper Starmer is insisting on unreasonably red lines?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Legislation will be introduced to unlock the benefits of airport expansion enable roads to be built at pace including the Lower Thames Crossing; and deliver a fair deal for the North of England through Northern Powerhouse Rail.

I'm skeptical the Heathrow Expansion will ever happen (it's privately funded) but the argument for it in principle is solid. Not exactly going to get voters back from the Greens though, you'd think.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Oh joy.

Allies of Wes Streeting have said he is preparing to quit as health secretary and could mount a formal challenge for the leadership as early as tomorrow, Pippa Crerar, Alexandra Topping and Jessica Elgot report.

Downing Street insiders had suggested Streeting did not yet have the required support from the 81 MPs needed to formally launch a leadership bid after Keir Starmer issued a “put up or shut up” ultimatum to his cabinet.

But a source close to Streeting told the Guardian that he was planning to resign on Thursday and launch a leadership bid. The idea that Starmer had seen off a putsch was “laughable”, they added.

The last source there is effectively Streeting himself, isn't that the convention? If so, more dreadful behavior.

On the plus side, leaking this while the King's Speech is going on may not help him get 81 MPs. And I suppose Resident Doctors might stop arsing about if there's a new Health Secretary, because I think the BMA leadership have a personal axe to grind.