Geri Scott
@Geri_E_L_Scott
Assistant political editor @thetimes | Ex @PA @yorkshirepost @EDP24 | Trustee @SPAJournalism | 50/50 blood to caffeine ratio
Delighted to be promoted to Assistant Political Editor at @thetimes - three years in the best lobby team in Westminster has been a dream, let’s go for some more 🎉
Rayner v Reeves from last Wednesday’s @thetimes As first revealed by me and @MaxKendix
The Times’s weekend read on ‘persistent knobheadery’, Cabinet warnings over a soft-left pivot and swingball at Chequers: * Keir Starmer told his Cabinet they were the most working class in history and had an unique opportunity to shape lives of those less fortunate than them *…
Angela Rayner’s bill ‘will make it easier for doctors to strike’ (w/ @eleanorhayward) thetimes.com/article/361456…
What’s driving Sharon Graham? Times Saturday interview with the Unite leader as she mulls a future outside Labour — and urges Keir Starmer to “believe in Britain”, increase defence funding and drill, baby, drill thetimes.com/article/952214…
Times Saturday read: Inside the fight for the Labour Party’s soul thetimes.com/article/182fae…
Excl: Suspended Diane Abbott unlikely to be readmitted to Labour - senior party source says they “don’t know how you resolve” situation after MP “doubled down” on something she previously apologised for. thetimes.com/article/9e5754…
Excl: Bridget Phillipson will overrule MPs and push ahead with the appointment of Sir Keir Starmer’s pick to chair Britain’s equality regulator, who defended women targeted for holding gender-critical views. The Times understands that ministers do not agree with concerns raised…
Excl: Britain must show with more money and security guarantees that it is committed to its overseas territories after it gave away the Chagos Islands, the leader of the British Virgin Islands has said. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
New: Rosena Allin Khan, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, and Mohammed Yasin removed as trade envoys.
Rachael Maskell confirmed as fourth MP to have lost the whip.
Rachael Maskell confirmed as fourth MP to have lost the whip.
Understand the three MPs are serial rebels Brian Leishman, Chris Hinchliff and Neil Duncan-Jordan.
Understand the three MPs are serial rebels Brian Leishman, Chris Hinchliff and Neil Duncan-Jordan.
Excl: Sir Keir Starmer is having a clear out of MPs he believes to have committed "persistent breaches of party discipline". Multiple sources tell me at least three MPs have so far lost the whip - with more to come this afternoon.
Top use of the phrase "persistent knobheadery" as rationale for suspending 3 Labour MPs I'm sure we could all think of others in Westminster who'd in danger if that's the bar
Keir Starmer suspends Labour MPs for ‘breaches of discipline’ thetimes.com/article/50dd23…
One party source said the MPs were suspended for 'persistent knobheadery'...
Excl: Sir Keir Starmer is having a clear out of MPs he believes to have committed "persistent breaches of party discipline". Multiple sources tell me at least three MPs have so far lost the whip - with more to come this afternoon.
EXCLUSIVE: Government lawyers blocked The Times from revealing General Sir Gwyn Jenkins’s true role in the Afghan data leak in the same week No 10 announced he would be promoted thetimes.com/article/20e388…
Labour members have been banned from attempts to oppose the Supreme Court ruling in the For Women Scotland case at local meetings. Guidance says "any discussion of the Supreme Court judgment must be conducted with sensitivity, respect and compassion" then adds: “Motions that…