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Good Tuesday morning. This is Stefan Boscia in Alberta, and Andrew McDonald in London.
DRIVING THE DAY
NO, CANADA: After 24 hours at a three-star Canadian hotel, Donald Trump had clearly seen enough. The president abruptly left the G7 summit a few hours ago, snubbing Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and pushing the gathering to the brink of irrelevance. The White House said the decision to leave early was because of the conflict between Israel and Iran — and it looks like that situation could be about to deteriorate even further.
All of which … could well end up overshadowing the good (and bad) news for Keir Starmer from his chummy appearance alongside the leader of the free world last night, where they signed off a U.S.-U.K. trade deal — and left some big unanswered questions about Britain’s ailing steel industry. More on that in just a sec.
Leaving on a jet plane: While you were sleeping, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on X that “because of what’s going on in the Middle East, President Trump will be leaving tonight after dinner with Heads of State.” This was put out just as Trump posted on Truth Social that Iranians should immediately evacuate Tehran (via Reuters). Trump called an emergency National Security Council meeting in the Situation Room, sparking loads of speculation about what comes next.
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Throwing bombs everywhere: Trump posted on Truth Social in the last hour: “Publicity seeking President Emmanuel Macron, of France, mistakenly said that I left the G7 Summit, in Canada, to go back to D.C. to work on a ‘cease fire’ between Israel and Iran. Wrong! He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that … Stay Tuned!” Sounds ominous.
Reminder: Trump had vowed retaliation in recent days if Iran attacked any American infrastructure (as threatened by the Iranian leadership). CNN reported first that Trump is calling for urgent meetings with the Iranian government in the coming days.
Scramble the spinners: The Pentagon was forced to deny a frenzy of unconfirmed social media reports that American jets were entering Iranian airspace shortly after Trump announced he was leaving. White House aide Alex Pfeiffer said: “American forces are maintaining their defensive posture, and that has not changed.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth agreed and told Fox News that Trump was prioritizing signing a nuclear deal with Iran. Speaking of which …
What is that “something”? The language Trump used on Iran (during his joint Q&A with Starmer) is worth revisiting. He said repeatedly that “something’s going to happen” on Iran and even said at one point that “as soon as I leave here, we will be doing something.” He added: “As I keep saying, I think a deal will be signed, or something will happen, but a deal will be signed, and I think Iran is foolish not to sign.”
It might be nothing, but … literally minutes after the departure announcement, the White House posted this very intense video of Trump’s military parade, with the promise: “Whenever duty calls and whatever danger comes, the American soldier will be there.” Read as much or as little into that as you like.
Silver lining? At least Trump isn’t leaving early to meet Kim Jong-Un this time.
LIKE A G6: Starmer and the rest of what is now effectively the G6 will spend today locked in talks over Israel-Iran as they draw up a joint statement calling for rapid de-escalation. Their calls for calm will come after Iran and Israel continued missile strikes for a fifth night, with a number of cities hit in both countries. The BBC has the latest developments.
But unfortunately for the also-rans … it has been proven true time and time again in 2025 that it’s Trump who truly has the power to shape world affairs and, in this case, encourage any de-escalation when war looms. The leaders remaining in Canada will face questions today about whether any of what they talk about or decide actually matters without Trump in the room.
A consolation prize: Trump did, however, endorse a G7 joint statement on the Middle East just before he left. The very short statement, which was sealed over a dinner with the seven leaders, urged a “broader de-escalation of hostilities in the Middle East, including a ceasefire in Gaza” and said “Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.”
Another consolation prize: Trump and Starmer agreed that the multi-billion-dollar AUKUS submarine pact will go ahead, despite a U.S. review. More on that here.
Hear from Keir: The PM will do a round of broadcast clips in the Canadian morning sun once he wakes up. Watch out for lines landing, likely in the evening U.K. time. A print huddle is planned, too.
ON RUSSIA: It looks like there won’t be any joint agreement with the U.S. on new Russia sanctions. The PM (who will meet Zelenskyy today as a special guest at the summit) last night said there would be coordinated sanctions on Russia from G7 leaders, but Trump made pretty clear on Monday he would not sign up before the end of this summit. When asked by Playbook whether he supported the European push, Trump said: “Well, Europe is saying that, but they haven’t done it yet … Let’s see them do it first.”
Trump added: “When I sanction a country, that costs the U.S. a lot of money — a tremendous amount of money. It’s not just, let’s sign a document. You’re talking about billions and billions of dollars. Sanctions are not that easy. It’s not just a one-way street.” Read that one here.
Oh, and: Trump was meant to have a one-on-one with Zelenskyy. So much for that.
Details, details: No. 10 was silent on what these further Russia sanctions would look like. The EU has been pushing for the oil price cap, a key sanction against Russia, to be cut from $60 to $45. But there have been reports that this would only proceed with American backing. Starmer said when making the announcement that Russia “doesn’t hold all the cards” in a clear rebuke to Trump (despite No. 10’s assurances that the wording had nothing to do with that infamous quote).
AS FOR THE BIG BRITISH STORY: Trump — alongside his “friend” Starmer — last night signed the executive order implementing his trade deal with the U.K. The entire set-piece between the two men was … strange.
Fumbling the deal: Trump and Starmer walked out into the deceptively hot Canadian sun to deliver the news. Next to a conference center nestled in between the rugged Kananaskis forest, the pair resembled an aging orange elk and a comparatively sprightly deer. Trump, brandishing a black folder, immediately revealed the deal had been signed — before proceeding to drop it on the floor. Starmer, with Jeeves-like alacrity, picked up the papers to hand back to the president. PA photographer Stefan Rousseau captured the moment beautifully.
Trump also … described the deal he was clutching as “our trade agreement with the European Union.” Starmer looked a touch confused.
The deets: The deal signed gives automakers their long-awaited tariff exemption (from 25 to 10 percent by the end of June). Starmer phoned Jaguar Land Rover after inking the deal to deliver the good news. Jet engines and other aerospace parts will also be exempt from the 10 percent baseline tariff. But there’s a hitch …
Steel yourselves: The agreement signed last night does not eliminate U.S. tariffs on U.K. steel, leaving them at 25 percent instead of zero, as was initially agreed (though at least they’re not 50 percent). Talks are set to continue in search of an agreement, according to British officials, but it’s clearly a blow to an already beleaguered industry. “The immediate win for the U.K. is largely greater certainty on when it will see some relief on U.S. auto tariffs, even if they don’t fully take us back to where we were before Trump 2.0,” former government trade adviser and SEC Newgate Director Allie Renison told Playbook. But “respite from U.S. steel tariffs still seems to be at a future unspecified time of Washington’s choosing,” she added.
Taking that last point and slapping you in the face with it: “We’re going to let you have that information in a little while,” was Trump’s response to being asked about steel.
One possible explanation: The FT has a bit of detail on the hold-up — and it’s techy, but broadly to do with the fact that the U.K. doesn’t make things anymore. It reports that significant proportions of U.K. steel are reprocessed from imported material and do not meet American requirements that it is “melted and poured” in the country of origin to qualify for tariff exemptions. Which sounds, to a doofus like Playbook, quite a tricky issue to solve.
On a brighter note: The president said Britain would be safe from future levies when pressed by The Sun’s Ryan Sabey following the signing. “The U.K. is very well protected, you know why? Because I like them.” Thanks, Donald.
More info may come … when Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds updates parliament on the deal in some form today. Deputy PM Angela Rayner might be after some details from her colleague when she chairs Cabinet in Starmer’s absence at 9.30 a.m.
Chef’s kiss: As for Britain’s broadcasting corps, they’ll get to ask Heidi Alexander what it means for the U.K. steel industry … at *checks notes* the Scunthorpe steelworks. The transport secretary is doing the morning broadcast round from there to finalize a rail steel deal between Network Rail and British Steel under which the firm will provide hundreds of thousands of tons of rail track. It’s the ideal backdrop for a good news U.K. steel story. For the Trump tariffs story, perhaps not so much.
GROOMING GANGS SHADOW
THE MORNING AFTER: MPs will get a chance to question Louise Casey this morning as they (and many others) continue to digest the shocking findings of her review into state failures on grooming gangs. It makes the front pages of every British newspaper bar the FT today. Casey faces the Home Affairs Committee at 10.30 a.m. for a session bound to create news, given the government troubleshooter’s bluntness about what has gone wrong.
Casey appears fresh from … a round of Monday evening broadcast interviews, where (among other things) she told Sky News that “do-gooders” tried to bury the sickening evidence of Asian grooming gangs for fear of giving racists ammunition, only to end up doing exactly that anyway by failing to deal with a real problem. Casey is unlikely to hold her tongue today.
One thing to watch: Will Casey have much further advice for the government as it sets up the national inquiry she recommended? Skeptics of the concept — including the prosecutor Nazir Afzal — have raised worries that inquiries often take forever and don’t always deliver the accountability that criminal investigations can. One abuse victim, speaking to the Express, said they had little faith in any inquiry that won’t investigate every council and police force in the country. That would be a wildly expensive and time-consuming endeavor — but it hammers home that many won’t feel satisfied by the kind of focused, three-year inquiry being proposed by the government.
Also not holding her tongue: Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips is up at the same committee from 3.30 p.m.
ICYMI: Playbook PM covered the findings of the Casey review in full Monday, and the Telegraph, Mirror and i, among many others, have good write-ups (you can find one in every single paper).
WHILE ELSEWHERE IN WESTMINSTER: Tory Leader Kemi Badenoch will be looking to keep up the political pressure on Keir Starmer over his failure to call a new national probe six months ago, after going all in on the PM’s “failure of leadership” in the Commons. She’ll hold a presser on grooming gangs at 11 a.m., followed by a Q&A.
For a preview … you can read Badenoch in today’s Sun arguing that “Labour tried to gaslight the country and the survivors of rape gangs yesterday.” Or you could go through her many social media posts last night defending the Tories’ record on the issue, which is bound to come up in the questions.
Pre-emptive strike: One government official pointed out that Badenoch has yet to really account for the previous government’s failure to implement Alexis Jay’s recommendations. It’s a fair enough point, given the Conservatives have seized on Starmer changing his tune after initially lashing out at those demanding an inquiry. Expect the blame game to continue today.
Reminder: Casey called Monday for an end to “political football” over the scandal. Best of luck with that.
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TONIGHT IN PARLIAMENT
164 YEARS LATER: The Commons has the chance to make history tonight, with MPs set to decide whether to decriminalize abortion — a move that would prove to be the biggest reform to England and Wales’ abortion laws since the 1960s, that could effectively change a law from all the way back in the 1860s. It’s truly one of those weeks in which decades happen.
What’s actually happening: Two Labour MPs have put down rival amendments on abortion to the Crime and Policing Bill — a government measure more focused on giving cops more power to tackle antisocial behavior, among other things. Both seek to take criminal sanctions away from women having an abortion, but that’s where it gets thorny.
As for why this is an issue: Six women have appeared in court in England in three years charged with ending or attempting to end their pregnancy outside the limited abortions allowed under the 1967 Abortion Act (via the BBC). The current law (England and Wales) says that abortion is illegal but allowed up to the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, and beyond that in certain circumstances. Abortions have to be approved by two doctors.
NC1: The amendment from Labour’s Tonia Antoniazzi seeks to remove women from the 1861 criminal law related to abortion, meaning they would no longer be able to be prosecuted under the act when it relates to their own pregnancy (as Nicola Packer, most famously, was). The aim is to prevent women from being prosecuted, even if they abort without medical approval or after 24 weeks. Medical professionals would not be exempt, but the thinking is that the old law would become unworkable in practice.
NC20: The other amendment from Stella Creasy would remove criminal penalties for both women and medical professionals involved in abortions, repealing aspects of the criminal abortion law entirely in favor of a new framework and introducing extra provisions to make it harder to change abortion law in the future. As we wrote in Monday’s Playbook, there are loadsa claims, counterclaims and quite fierce sparring between the camps about what each amendment will mean and why their own one is best — you can read the MPs’ individual cases here.
In case the wars over those amendments weren’t enough … there are plenty of MPs concerned about the removal of criminal sanctions for women after the 24-week timeframe. The Times’ Max Kendix and Aubrey Allegretti have seen a letter from Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood to her constituents describing the changes as “dangerous.” As it’s a conscience issue, MPs will not be whipped for the votes which will take place sometime before 7 p.m.
Tedious important procedure note: Confusion still reigns among MPs about how today will pan out. Some are expecting Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to select only one amendment for debate … but three parliamentary officials told my colleague Dan Bloom last night that Hoyle is likely to select all three. That’s Antoniazzi and Creasy on decriminalization, and Caroline Johnson’s bid for in-person consultations before a woman can get abortion pills.
But but but … that doesn’t mean all three will be voted on. The question is whether Antoniazzi’s and Creasy’s amendments are deemed to contradict each other. If they are — and Antoniazzi’s passes — then Creasy’s wouldn’t be able to go to a vote. And this was looking likely but not guaranteed last night. Keep up at the back!
The Speaker speaks: Hoyle may well clear all this up at the start of the debate, one person told Dan. Let’s hope so.
TODAY IN WESTMINSTER
SCOOP — NEED FOR SPEED: The U.K. and NATO allies are moving too slowly when it comes to adopting new military technologies, Grace Cassy, a member of the strategic defense review team, has warned. In her first interview since the SDR, Cassy told my colleague Esther Webber that the U.K. has “a way to go” before we could adapt as rapidly as Ukraine and Russia. “If we went up to 5 percent [spending on defense] tomorrow, but we’re still in our old habits, we wouldn’t be prepared for the future,” she said.
MOMENTUM, GROWING: Labour MPs Dan Tomlinson and Jake Richards have a joint op-ed in the Times calling for reform of the European Convention on Human Rights — following ITV’s extraordinary investigation from Paul Brand finding that British courts refused the extradition of fugitives wanted for murder and child rape due to human rights laws.
RARE INTERVENTION KLAXON: Gordon Brown has waded (again) into the assisted dying debate, to lambast the “fundamental flaws” in the bill set to be voted on Friday.
ABOUT LAST NIGHT: The PLP “very easily” passed new standing orders — the rules Labour MPs have to follow — as we previewed in Monday’s Playbook, MPs tell Bethany Dawson. The new rules mean Labour MPs aren’t entitled to request flexible working, the party won’t cover the cost of mandatory campaign trips and there is now no time limit on suspensions. The feeling is that this makes it much riskier for MPs to go against the whip. Funnily enough, the changes come into place just weeks before the widely predicted mega-rebellion on the government’s welfare reforms. Weird how things work out.
NO MORE PAVEMENT SQUEEZING: Sadiq Khan is officially going ahead with plans to “transform” Oxford Street after a public consultation found that two-thirds of Londoners support pedestrianizing the street. The mayor will be doing a (London-centric, natch) media round to discuss the move.
Speaking of London Town: Our very own Noah Keate has looked into how effectively the London mayoralty serves the capital, 25 years after its creation. The office-holder’s regular battles with Whitehall and the quality of scrutiny between elections have sparked questions about whether the post has lived up to New Labour’s devolution idealism at the turn of the millennium, although there is no let-up in new mayors popping up across Britain … or calls for even more. Read Noah’s investigation here.
PROCESS, INTERRUPTED: Labour MPs were scheduled to meet national security adviser Jonathan Powell to discuss recognizing a Palestinian state, but the meeting was canceled after the U.N. conference on the topic was postponed amid rising conflicts in the Middle East, PoliticsHome’s Tom Scotson reports.
COURT CIRCULAR: Former Conservative MP Katie Wallis (formerly known as Jamie Wallis) goes on trial at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court at 10 a.m. on a charge of harassing her former wife … and former independent MP candidate and lawyer Akhmed Yakoob is in Westminster Magistrates Court at 10 a.m. facing three money laundering charges.
SW1 EVENTS: The NFU hosts its summer reception and rural crime report launch in parliament at 8.30 a.m., with speeches from Policing Minister Diana Johnson and NFU President Tom Bradshaw … the Food and Drink Federation hosts a tasting event with the APPG for Food and Drink in the Jubilee Room from 3 p.m. … Grayling hosts its summer drink reception at 6.30 p.m. (invite only).
REPORTS OUT TODAY: Forty percent of inmates in Lowdham Grange prison feel unsafe, and 56 percent said it was easy to get hold of drugs, according to the HM Inspectorate of Prisons … national resilience can be built through a circular economy and by giving consumers a “right to repair,” says the APPG on Environment … the risks of the South China Sea crisis and an invasion of Taiwan are increased if countries overlook China’s growing weaponization of legal processes, according to the Council on Geostrategy’s Indo-Pacific Project.
HOUSE OF COMMONS: Sits from 11.30 a.m. with health and social care questions … a 10-minute rule motion on Registration of Births (Inclusion of Deceased Parents) (led by Labour MP Jen Craft) … and Day One of the remaining stages of the Crime and Policing Bill. Labour MP Rupa Huq has the adjournment debate on access to abiraterone for the treatment of prostate cancer.
WESTMINSTER HALL: Debates from 9.30 a.m. on topics including U.K. compliance with the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Green MP Ellie Chowns) … and government support for disabled people in poverty (Labour MP Neil Duncan Jordan).
On committee corridor: The Victims and Courts Bill is considered by the committee with appearances from Domestic Abuse Commissioner Nicole Jacobs and Victims’ Commissioner Helen Newlove at 9.45 a.m., and Victims and VAWG Minister Alex Davies-Jones at 3.40 p.m. … the Home Affairs Committee discusses the implementation of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse with crossbench peer Louise Casey at 10.30 a.m. … the Home Affairs committee quizzes Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips on tackling violence against women and girls at 2.30 p.m. … the Justice Committee questions former Justice Minister David Gauke on his sentencing review at 2.30 p.m. … the European Affairs Committee discusses the U.K.-EU reset with NFU President Tom Bradshaw at 3.30 p.m. … and the International Agreements Committee and the International Relations and Defence Committee quiz FCDO Minister Stephen Doughty on the Chagos island agreement and transfer of sovereignty at 5 p.m.
HOUSE OF LORDS: Sits from 2.30 p.m. with questions on developing and maintaining the specialist branch of learning disabilities nursing, removing cladding from high-rise buildings and funding for international vaccine programmes … third reading of the Holocaust Memorial Bill … and it is Day Five of the committee stage of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
BEYOND THE M25
ORGANIZING: The Unison conference kicks off at 10 a.m. in Liverpool. Full agenda here.
COULD HAVE GUESSED THAT ONE: First Minister John Swinney will give a keynote speech at the Scotland 2050 Conference at 1 p.m., followed by a Q&A in which he’ll argue that independence is key to achieving Scotland’s goals for the middle of the century. Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar is up at 2.10 p.m. and will also take questions.
NORTH OF THE BORDER: Labour MP Joani Reid has called on Swinney to launch a Scottish grooming gangs inquiry, according to the Record splash.
MINNESOTA SHOOTING: A Democratic U.S. senator was among 45 state and federal officials listed in notebooks found in a car belonging to the man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses on Saturday, my Stateside colleagues report. Vance Boelter, 57, who was arrested after a two-day manhunt, allegedly used online people search services to find the home addresses of his intended targets, according to court documents.
Charges: The U.S. Department of Justice said Monday it plans to file six federal charges against Boelter for Saturday’s attacks, including two counts of murder, and local prosecutors intend to bring additional first-degree murder charges.
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MEDIA ROUND
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander broadcast round: Times Radio (7.05 a.m.) … Sky News (7.15 a.m.) … BBC Breakfast (7.30 a.m.) … LBC (7.50 a.m.) … GB News (8.05 a.m.) … Today (8.20 a.m.) … GMB (8.35 a.m.).
Shadow Justice Minister Kieran Mullan broadcast round: GB News (7.05 a.m.) … Times Radio (7.45 a.m.) … Sky News (8.15 a.m.) … LBC News (8.45 a.m.) … Talk (9.05 a.m.).
Also on Nick Ferrari at Breakfast: Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin (7.20 a.m.) … Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi (8.50 a.m.).
Also on Times Radio Breakfast: IDF international spokesperson Nadav Shoshani (8.05 a.m.) … former head of MI6 Richard Dearlove (8.10 a.m.) … former Conservative Party Leader William Hague (9.05 a.m.).
Also on Sky News Breakfast: Labour MP Alex Ballinger (9.30 a.m.).
Politics Live (BBC Two 12.15 p.m.): Labour MP Rachael Maskell … Conservative MP Alec Shelbrooke … Good Growth Foundation boss Praful Nargund … journalist and broadcaster Inaya Folarin Iman.
TODAY’S FRONT PAGES
POLITICO UK: Trump slams ‘publicity seeking’ Macron amid early G7 exit.
Daily Express: Let’s ‘uncover a lot of truth’ in sex gangs inquiry.
Daily Mail: Conspiracy of silence over race doomed thousands of girls to abuse.
Daily Mirror: Never again.
Daily Star: Reservoir Dregs.
Financial Times: Israel claims ‘control’ of Tehran skies.
Metro: Blindness ignorance prejudice defensiveness.
The Daily Telegraph: Asylum seekers behind new grooming gang cases.
The Guardian: Israel warns Iranians to flee as deadly air raids continue.
The Independent: Too much denial, too little justice.
The i Paper: Generation of girls let down by police, councils and MPs who ignored UK grooming gangs.
The Sun: Betrayed by the state.
The Times: Ethnicity ‘brushed aside’ in grooming gang inquiries.
LONDON CALLING
WESTMINSTER WEATHER: Sunny and hot, happy Tuesday. High 28C, low 17C.
SPOTTED … at the book launch of LBC presenter Iain Dale’s short biography of Margaret Thatcher at St Martin-in-the-Fields by Trafalgar Square: Tory Leader Kemi Badenoch, who said the Iron Lady was a “tough act to follow” … Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp … Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith … Shadow Environment Secretary Victoria Atkins … Shadow Business Minister Greg Smith … Dale’s former podcasting partner, Education Minister Jacqui Smith, hanging out with his new podcasting partner, historian Tessa Dunlop … Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle, his press secretary Jackie Storer and chief of staff Helen Wood … Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mayor Paul Bristow … Tory MPs Andrew Mitchell, Esther McVey and Suella Braverman … Conservative peers Graham Brady, Michael Howard, Ed Vaizey and Virginia Bottomley … Lib Dem peer Lynne Featherstone … Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice in spirited conversation with drag queen and star of the show Margaret Thatcher, Queen of Soho …
And breathe: LOTO’s Dylan Sharpe, Lee Rowley and Henry Newman … former Tory MPs Penny Mordaunt, Nadhim Zahawi, Peter Bottomley, Amber Rudd, Robert Buckland, Brandon Lewis, Daniel Kawczynski, Damian Green, Liam Fox and Steve Baker … environmentalist and former MEP Stanley Johnson … Liz Truss’ spokesperson Jonathan Isaby … Tory activist Albie Amankona … PLMR founder and former Labour PPC Kevin Craig … activist Gina Miller … historians Michael Cockerell, David Starkey and Robert Hardman … academics Richard Johnson, Lee David Evans and Nigel Fletcher … hacks Andrew Pierce, Joe Pike, Antonello Guerrera, Jon Craig, Kit Bradshaw, Camilla Tominey, Tom Harwood, Liam Halligan and Grant Tucker … broadcasters Steve Richards, Jeremy Vine, Sian Williams, Lucy Beresford, Adam Boulton and Matthew Stadlen … and LBC’s Natasha Clark, Aggie Chambre, Ben Kentish and Corey Froggatt.
JOB NEWS: Labour MP Gregor Poynton has launched the Robin Cook Internship, named after the former foreign secretary and Livingston MP, for S5 and S6 pupils (known as year 12 and 13 in England) in his Livingston constituency. Applicants have until June 19 to apply via email, with a CV and essay on “Livingston’s place in the world.” Probably best not to mention roundabouts.
WRITING PLAYBOOK PM: Emilio Casalicchio.
WRITING PLAYBOOK WEDNESDAY MORNING: Sam Blewett.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO: Former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone … Labour peer and former Education Secretary Estelle Morris … Labour peer and Defence Minister Vernon Coaker … Labour peer Donald Anderson … Scottish Socialist Party spokesperson Colin Fox … transport SpAd Ryan Denston … former U.S Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
PLAYBOOK COULDN’T HAPPEN WITHOUT: My editors Zoya Sheftalovich, Dan Bloom and Alex Spence, diary reporter Bethany Dawson and producer Dean Southwell.
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