Chancellor Rachel Reeves begins her big growth speech at Siemens Healthineers in Oxfordshire, flanked by cabinet ministers and two giant electro magnets which will go into MRI machines. @CityAM

Six first steps for change were announced and set out on a Blair style pledge card

🛑 Keir Starmer is about to announce his govt’s new set of milestones - including pledging to raise living standards across the UK. His new targets join the govt’s three foundations; five missions, six first steps, and seven pillars of economic growth. Still with me?

Thousands of farmers marched on Westminster today in protest against the government’s plans to impose inheritance tax on farms. Enjoyed filming our piece on the farmers protest for @CityAM today - despite the rain! #FarmerProtests 🚜🐄 youtu.be/dx-k2OiqJs0?si=NLox…

Some creative signage at the farmers protest on Whitehall this morning - and a lot of wellies and tweed #Farmers @cityam

Bridgerton star Adjoa Andoh opens the government’s first international investment summit as “MC for the day” declaring: “Britain is open for business.” @CityAM

Robert Jenrick takes the stage at his leadership speech to “talk to you about the choice that we face, not just in this leadership election… but the real choice that our country faces between Labour's failing agenda and the new approach that I want us to take”.

today’s politically balanced stationary

Enjoyed writing today’s column on Labour’s first weeks in office.. @CityAM cityam.com/nightmare-fuel-ha…

Standing room (it is quite a small room) only at Grant Shapps launch event for ‘Conservatives Together’. Report reckons just 2% of all UK voters could have made all the electoral difference and urges party to learn lessons - even from the Lib Dems! #CPC24

Tugendhat jokes he served in the military with a guy “from a slightly different, broken home”. Says “his start in life wasn't always easy, it was difficult, particularly when his parents divorced. “But his grandmother took a large interest in him, and she was the Queen.” 👑