ANDREW PIERCE: Is Labour on target for one more U-turn? 

There are websites which are labeled as Inexperienced Belt that we wish to construct on,’ Lisa Nandy proudly declared throughout her media rounds final week.

The Shadow Levelling Up Secretary has pledged to tackle the ‘taboo’ of constructing on undeveloped land, as a part of Labour’s plan to unravel the housing disaster inside ten years.

This spiel could be extra convincing have been it not for the truth that, again in 2016, the Wigan MP advised her native newspaper: ‘I imagine it’s flawed to contemplate Inexperienced Belt land for growth. Inexperienced Belt land is there to stop city sprawl and supply house for recreation.

She’s in good firm. Thirty-seven Labour MPs in England have spoken out in opposition to such schemes — no fewer then eight of whom are Labour frontbenchers.

Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Pat McFadden, mentioned of plans in his Wolverhampton constituency: ‘I’m opposed to those proposals and wish to see this lovely and much-loved space preserved as a part of the Inexperienced Belt.’

The Shadow Levelling Up Secretary, Lisa Nandy (pictured) has pledged to tackle the ‘taboo’ of constructing on undeveloped land, as a part of Labour’s plan to unravel the housing disaster inside ten years

Peter Kyle, the Shadow Northern Eire Secretary, backed a marketing campaign in opposition to a growth in his Hove constituency.

The listing goes on. Certainly it is solely a matter of time earlier than we now have one other screeching U-turn from the Labour chief himself, Sir Keir Starmer.

The historic outfits worn by Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the Home of Commons, and his crew through the Coronation procession are set to go on present for the primary time. The black and gold Gown of State and lace jabot and cuffs worn by Sir Lindsay will probably be among the many objects on show when the State Residences of Speaker’s Home are opened for the summer time. However it’s certainly the fabled teal gown and hat worn by Penny Mordaunt, as she carried with such aplomb the Sword of State, that can steal the present. 

Boris Johnson’s former communications chief Guto Harri has revealed simply how shut the ex-PM as soon as was to fellow Brexiteer Sir Bernard Jenkin, now his nemesis on the Privileges Committee which voted to droop him from Parliament for 90 days following the Partygate inquiry. Harri advised LBC’s Nick Ferrari: ‘They used to hit it off, they agreed over plans for a Thames Estuary airport. I keep in mind Boris ringing him up in the future and singing the music Islands In The Stream to him.’

What a disgrace they will not ‘depend on one another — a-ha’!

Mischievous query of the week from former Solar editor Kelvin MacKenzie: ‘Within the annual disclosure of employees salaries, the BBC reveals the 10pm information presenter Huw Edwards acquired a £25k rise to £439,999 as a result of additional work, together with the funeral of Queen Elizabeth. That is some huge cash. I’m wondering what he does with all of it?’ 

After the Huw Edwards affair, former Brexit minister Lord Frost known as for a smaller, cheaper, BBC specializing in severe politics, information and the ‘Western canon of music and drama’. Might the plain-speaking peer be eyeing up the vacant place of BBC Chairman? The prospect of Frost wielding the knife will certainly ship shudders by means of W1A. 

Greatest second in Idiots Assemble: Spitting Picture The Musical, which has opened in London’s Phoenix Theatre — when King Charles sings to a model of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody: ‘I am only a posh boy/No one loves me.’

Labour MP Jess Phillips tweets: ‘I do love my constituents, yesterday in night surgical procedure one was shocked that I used to be solely 41 and one other opened with, ‘You look tough, been an extended day?’ ‘