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1. Thornberry announces Labour leadership bid
Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has confirmed that she’ll run for the Labour leadership. She writes in the Guardian that she’s the right person to take on Boris Johnson because when he was foreign secretary, she ‘took the fight to him every day, and pummelled him every week’.
2. Starmer: I’m not too middle class to lead Labour
Sir Keir Starmer says he’s ‘seriously considering’ running for Labour leader – and he’s not too middle class to lead the party because his father ‘worked in a factory… So the middle class background just doesn’t wash.’
3. Blair attacks Corbyn ‘cult’
Tony Blair has given a speech attacking Jeremy Corbyn and the far left for ‘terminal ineptitude’, ‘comic indecision’ on Brexit and for turning Labour into a ‘glorified protest movement with cult trimmings, utterly incapable of being a credible government’.
4. Barnier’s question
Michel Barnier today told the European Parliament that the EU’s ‘level of ambition’ in Brexit trade talks will depend on the UK’s answer to the question: ‘Does it want to distance itself, and if so how far, from our regulatory model?’ The FT has the story.
5. Hancock announces bursaries for student nurses
Health Secretary Matt Hancock gave the first major policy speech since the general election at Policy Exchange this morning. He said his four major priorities for the NHS are prevention, people, technology and infrastructure – and he announced £2 billion of financial support for trainee nurses: from September 2020 they will each be given at least £5,000 a year that they will not need to pay back.
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