AWARDED: Victoria Martin de la Torre (whom many know as a spokesperson for the S&D group) will today be awarded the “Better Understanding Europe” book prize by the Jacques Delors Foundation for her book “Europe, a Leap Into the Unknown,” on the friendship between the EU’s founding fathers. The book is available in Spanish, English, French, Norwegian, Italian and French, with a Polish phone number database version due out next year.
BIRTHDAYS:
MEP Rosa Estaràs Ferragut; Mastercard’s Katie LaZelle; Tobias Müllensiefen; European Commission’s Annemarie Huber; German politician Matthias Groote; Benjamin Netanyahu, former PM of Israel.
MANY THANKS:
Hans von der Burchard, America Hernandez and our producer Grace Stranger.SPOTTED: At last night’s women’s Lobby bash put on by INHouse and supported by Lloyds: Labour leader Keir Starmer … Shadow International Trade facebook users Secretary Emily Thornberry … Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary Anneliese Dodds … Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle … Former U.N Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross … Work and Pensions Secretary Thérèse Coffey … Attorney General Suella Braverman … Foreign Office Minister James Cleverly … Tory MPs Caroline top seo best practices in 2019 Nokes … Bob Seely … Gagan Mohindra … Eddie Hughes … David Mundell … Labour’s Flo Eshalomi … Women2Win founder Anne Jenkin and her husband Bernard … Deputy Commons Speaker Eleanor Laing … and the whole of the women’s Lobby led by its seven political editors: The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg … Sky’s Beth Rigby … the Sunday Times’ Caroline Wheeler … the Mirror’s Pippa Crerar … Bloomberg’s Kitty Donaldson … and Politics Home’s Kate Proctor (with the Guardian’s Heather Stewart there in spirit.