Month: January 2024

Succession? Macron picks Gabriel Attal as youngest French Prime Minister EU

New year, new face.France’s youngest-ever president naming the country’s youngest-ever prime minister. We willl ask why Emmanuel Macron chose to replace Elisabeth Borne with Gabriel Attal and chart the meteoric rise of a 34-year old Parisian who has already enjoyed stints as city councilor, party spokesperson, budget minister, government spokesperson and most recently education minister.

James Morrison’s partner Gill Catchpole’s cause of death has been confirmed (Picture: Joanne Davidson/Shutterstock)

Singer James Morrison’s partner Gill Catchpole’s cause of death has been confirmed, after she died aged 45.

The news was revealed by a source on Sunday, who said Morrison was ‘devastated’ by her sudden death after she was found at home in Gloucestershire on Friday.

It’s now been confirmed that Catchpole died by hanging, a coroner was told today.

The coroner was informed that police were satisfied there were no suspicious circumstances involved.

Catchpole was found by Morrison at her home on Friday, to which he had a key, after he had been contacted by a friend who couldn’t get access.

Catchpole shared two children with the singer and guitarist, eldest daughter Elsie, 15, born in 2008, and Ada, five, who they welcomed 10 years later in 2018.

Morrison described Catchpole as his hero in a 2019 interview and said he could never replace her.

Metro.co.uk has approached James Morrison’s reps for comment.

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has set an election date (sort of) ruling out an election in the first half of the year – that’s his “working assumption” anyway. 

The phrase “working assumption” does give Sunak wriggle room should circumstances change, and he has not ruled out a spring election.

But experts suggest a Mid-November election is most likely and with the Tories still trailing behind Labour by around 20 points in the polls, the longer Sunak can drag the year out, the better chance it’ll be for him. 

Polling suggests that despite the Tory noise around immigration, it’s the economy and the NHS that are the two top concerns for the British public.