Darling, Won’t You Ease My Worried Mind?

The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into City & Guilds of London Institute’s sale of its City & Guilds awards operation to a private company in October 2025. That Institute is chaired by the newly ennobled Ann Limb, Labour Party donor and academic fraud.

Elsewhere, the Information Commissioner’s Office has advised Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace and Justice Project that Zarah Sultana’s unauthorised launch of a Your Party membership portal should be referred to the Police, since there might have been “serious criminal activity”. Sultana should have been told that while she could be involved, direction would be set by MPs who had not been elected on the Labour ticket, but had already beaten the Labour machine, thereby proving their mettle.

Reform UK should have said something similar to Britain’s most televised councillor, Laila Cunningham, who has only ever so much as contested any election as a Conservative. She was almost the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Rotherham in 2024, but her withdrawal shortly before the close of nominations “due to a change in circumstances” left the 11,615 Conservative voters from 2019 with no one to vote for, turning a Labour majority of 3,121 over the Conservatives into a Labour majority of 5,490 over Reform.

So much for her claim, on the GB News that has made her, that she had become a Conservative councillor only because Reform had not then existed. She did so in 2022, when it did. As Michelle Dewberry asked her, “If the Tories are so bad, why does Reform keep taking all of them?” “I don’t know,” replied Cunningham. But the rest of us do.