Required reading after this week's spearfishing revelations. Harry's experience should be a useful warning of what to look out for (and how to respond).

🚨BREAKING🚨

Tory MP Luke Evans has revealed he was targeted in the Westminster honeytrap plot.

He was sent a photo of a naked woman out of the blue over Whatsapp. He’s contacted the police.

Follows Tory MP William Wragg going public.

Story here👇
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/0…

The Russian embassy in South Africa is falsely claiming that President Zelensky's bought Highgrove House from King Charles III for £20m, citing 'British media' outlet the London Crier.

But British media has reported no such thing. The London Crier is a Russian disinformation…

EXCLUSIVE: Senior Conservative party officials worked on plans to hand over its entire membership database for a commercial venture that promised to make tens of millions of pounds. My scoop on the 'True Blue' app, with Henry Dyer
theguardian.com/politics/2024/… The Guardian

Remarkable line in BBC interview with David Cameron

A blank space on today’s WSJ A1 where Evan Gershkovich’s reporting should be, one year after his arrest on patently false charges. Russia should free him now

On a per person basis it’s considerably worse than the headline figures. This was a period of rapid population growth. On a per person basis GDP has been falling consistently for two years.

Not sure calling this a “mild” or “technical” recession quite gets at the scale.

Dancing around the May poll: Wargaming Sunak's options after the local elections (one of which is that he ends up walking...)

tortoisemedia.com/2024/03/28/uk-…

The sixth and final episode of #WhoTrolledAmber is out now. We focus in on Johnny Depp's lawyer and some of the real-life trolls who targeted Amber Heard. Tortoise
open.spotify.com/episode/0JPUcj…

NEW

Tories have fallen to their lowest vote share since the end of Liz Truss tenure

The Telegraph-Savanta UK poll has Tories on **24%**, lowest since Oct22

Labour 44% (=)
Conservative 24% (-2)
Reform UK 11% (=)
Lib Dems 10% (+1)
Green 4% (=)
SNP 3% (=)
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

Interesting twist on Kate's story - I gather some MPs have been invited to policy committees on multiple occasions.

One Tory tells me there is 'no take up... Presumably nobody is up for putting their name to it.'

He adds: 'Send in Gullis'