Burnham to meet Irish PM as UK bids to get exemptions from EU’s ‘Made in Europe’ plan – UK politics live

It will be the first time the PM uses No 10 North to host an overseas visit while the chancellor will be in Dublin meeting with EU finance ministers As Robert Booth reports, the former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has taken a job with the controversial US AI company Palantir. The Green party says this is an example of the “corrosive revolving door” between politics and business. Palantir, with its work for ICE in the US and the IDF, has no business at all in our NHS and public services. Tom Watson has been employed to lobby his friends in the Labour government. This is yet another example of the corrosive revolving door between politics and big business lobbying that has no place in public life. Continue reading...