Sascha O'Sullivan
@saschaosullivan
🎙️Host of Westminster Insider at @POLITICOEurope Australian-style journalist, coffee snob & beach bum [email protected]
🎙️NEW ep. As summer approaches, and rows rumble on, we’ve put together a half term score card on Keir Starmer’s milestones & the trials and tribulations of the opposition benches With me is: @ce_pickles @harry_qp @Scarlett__Mag @RMCunliffe @JAHeale
Conclave 2 i have an idea for you
Anna Wintour is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Vogue after 37 years, WWD reports.
rejected Charli xcx song:
It’s not called Your Party!
Inside the world of Britain's private sector spies — lucrative, freewheeling and largely unregulated. Those in the shadowy industry say illegally-obtained info is regularly "laundered" into court proceedings Cracking piece by @Masonboyowen politico.eu/article/uk-bri…
Post Office scandal-hit Fujitsu vies for lucrative Brexit border contract Scoop from me and @g_lanktree politico.eu/article/post-o…
🚨SCOOP from @sophie_inge and @g_lanktree: The firm at the heart of the Post Office Horizon scandal is bidding for a £370 million government contract to keep running the border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Post Office scandal-hit Fujitsu vies for lucrative Brexit border contract Scoop from me and @g_lanktree politico.eu/article/post-o…
Something very different from my usual boring articles about polls and numbers. I wrote about grief, wearing black and returning to normal life for the @spectator
Such a beautiful piece from my dear friend @Scarlett__Mag about the comfort of observing proper mourning rituals spectator.co.uk/article/why-im…
That’s how it’s done
Whatever your politics, it was hard not to feel for Rachel Reeves today. Wishing her all the very best.
Perhaps not a bad time for a re-listen @POLITICOEurope with guests @George_Osborne, Norman Lamont, @theobertram, @RealSamWhite From @POLITICOEurope open.spotify.com/episode/0R6Bc3…
Labour MP @MarieTidball delivers a powerful speech: “It is with a heavy broken heart that I will be voting against this bill today. “As a matter of conscience, I need my constituents to know I cannot support the proposed changes to PIP as currently drafted...”
Latest @POLITICOEurope long read on Labour's relationship with trade unions. While early pay settlements and the Employment Rights Bill got a positive response, recent pay offers aren't meeting union demands — making ministers fear a summer of strikes. politico.eu/article/labour…
V fun to be on @ObserverUK pod earlier today hosted by the excellent @RebeccaHBM open.spotify.com/episode/614YaZ…
The Government says London needs to build 88,000 homes a year. Last year, it started 3,990. My column today is on the urgent national crisis no one is talking about - the collapse of housebuilding in London (1/?)
Super useful up-sum of where the government has got to in its quest for “milestones” on health, the economy, policing and more – from our Westminster Insider pod. Score is looking a bit “ C” according to many of our judges! With host @saschaosullivan. 👂podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wes…
🎙️This weekend’s must listen: Westminster Insider’s ‘half-term’ report on how the Government and Opposition parties have been faring.
🎙️NEW ep. As summer approaches, and rows rumble on, we’ve put together a half term score card on Keir Starmer’s milestones & the trials and tribulations of the opposition benches With me is: @ce_pickles @harry_qp @Scarlett__Mag @RMCunliffe @JAHeale
Our Director @ce_pickles joined Politico's Westminster Insider podcast to assess & grade the Government's performance against its milestones 👇
🎙️NEW ep. As summer approaches, and rows rumble on, we’ve put together a half term score card on Keir Starmer’s milestones & the trials and tribulations of the opposition benches With me is: @ce_pickles @harry_qp @Scarlett__Mag @RMCunliffe @JAHeale
Super fun chatting to @saschaosullivan for this week's Westminster Insider Seems me and @harry_qp were pretty aligned on our grades for each milestone
🎙️NEW ep. As summer approaches, and rows rumble on, we’ve put together a half term score card on Keir Starmer’s milestones & the trials and tribulations of the opposition benches With me is: @ce_pickles @harry_qp @Scarlett__Mag @RMCunliffe @JAHeale
In a long, reflective interview with @TomBaldwin66 on his first year in office, Keir Starmer says of his "island of strangers" line on immigration: "I deeply regret using it." Adds he hadn't read the speech properly as it came only hours after an arson attack on his family home.
As the parliamentary term rolls into its eventful final weeks, our new Westminster Insider episode brings us an expert “report card” on the successes and fails of the Starmer government. Host @saschaosullivan podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wes…