Wednesday, 22 April 2026

Conversations About Other Roles

What job would you give Matthew Doyle, and why? Jonathan Brash has been on GB News to call for Keir Starmer to resign, while on The World at One, Polly Billington refused three times to say that she trusted Starmer’s judgement. Starmer has lost even Peter Mandelson’s giant, handpicked intake of 2024. Including, in Brash, Mandelson’s latest successor as the MP for Hartlepool. And it’s still only Wednesday.

Yet there will be no Prime Minister’s Questions next week, or indeed at all before the King’s Speech on 13 May. Parliament is to be prorogued next Tuesday, one day into the Old Bailey trial of Roman Lavrynovych, Petro Pochynok and Stanislav Carpiuc. When it came to drugged up arson on empty buildings that the attackers could not identify, then how much is there? A lot, I expect. But there is nothing else like this.

Even before Donald Trump took out their rivals, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards had vast interests in energy, engineering, construction, shipbuilding, automation and telecommunications, and enormous influence over the bonyads, which are fabulously rich and economically pivotal religious charities. This small fry stuff is just not them. Disgruntled Ukrainian rentboys, on the other hand. So to speak. Except that the fry is not small when it is the Prime Minister.

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