James Heale
@JAHeale
Deputy Political Editor @spectator
Knives out for the cabinet secretary in my latest @spectator column spectator.co.uk/article/can-an…
“I don't know who created Jet2. But I’m trying to figure out how we get them to Jet2 the polls!”
Kemi Badenoch to the FT: “I can’t spend all my time worrying about regicide, I would lose my mind. I’m so thick-skinned to the point where I don’t even notice if people are trying to create harm. That’s extremely useful in this job.”
Lindsay Hoyle: popular, affable - and an astute political operator. In a factious age, how the Speaker has managed to avoid the fate of his two predecessors: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…
Lee Rowley was essential to Kemi Badenoch’s rise. His exit is the big story from her reshuffle: spectator.co.uk/article/the-re…
Some of this new Labour intake really do have skeletons in their closet
Breaking news: Former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes has emerged victorious in his decade-long battle to clear his name for rigging Libor benchmark rates after the UK’s highest court quashed his conviction on.ft.com/4o4bodg
As Julia Lopez returns to shadowing a portfolio, some praise this morning for her replacement as Badenoch’s PPS. John Glen is a respected former cabinet minister. A member of the class of 2010, he will offer Badenoch experience and more connections with a different intake
Told that the lithe legislator that is Alec Shelbrooke is the new Tory spokesman for Shadow Foreign Affairs