Ian Pethick

We were all pointing the finger at Morgan McSweeney when trying to understand the Labour government becoming Reform- Lite, perhaps it was Keir Starmer all along?

Will be interesting to see if Richard "Dubai Dicky" Tice MP turns up for PMQ's on Wednesday.

Influencer's fleeing Dubai right now.

This aged well.

Anybody remember this? Obviously designed as a trap for any incoming Labour government. Osborne's time as Chancellor does seem to avoid even the same level of evaluation that David Cameron has received.

Still struggling to comprehend why Starmer chucked away a parliamentary seat for the sole purpose of seeing off a, perceived, leadership rival. Andy Burnham would surely have won this.

Farage will pivot effortless on to his next topic (ECHR for example), Starmer won't as he's far too leaden footed in comparison.

Lord Glasman's not appeared on TV or radio yet this morning, problem with his phone? #r4today

To be fair to Zahawi, he was probably traumatised after catching sight of a "tired looking man" while taking the steps from the door of his town house to the chauffeured car. #r4today

Daughter of a Baronet, step daughter of a Viscount and David Cameron's sister in law. These people always fail upwards, never any consequences.

You're assuming that he was campaigning for Labour...

Surprised that he didn't bump into BBC reporters on their usual "let's conduct 10am weekday open air market vox pops" mission.

Everything you need to know after protests on streets of Manchester Far-right political party Britain First descended on the city centre

Would think that this is the talent pool that Reform are going to recruit their UK version of ICE from.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

I would argue that Cameron laid the path to Brexit with his austerity program, his ill thought out and botched referendum then created the political chaos that left the door open for Johnson and Truss.

#R4Today

Yaxley-Lennon with the worst example of "going into hiding" since this episode of The Simpsons.

I'm hoping that Farage spending his weekend on a PR stunt in the Maldives rather than campaigning in Gorton & Denton, means that Goodwin is on the verge of defeat. Doesn't seem to me to be the behaviour of someone who believes they're on the verge of a seismic political breakthrough.

Always thought that was why someone like Lee Anderson was popular with Rishi Sunak (until he defected), they think he is the working class. Uncouth, uncultured and not worthy of nice things.

Someone else that Nigel Farage has never met.

Isn't this the same as turning up in a small boat outside HMNB Clyde at Faslane and being denied entry? Lucky he hasn't been shot at.

A still from Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Boris Johnson.

The (probably low quality) debate will probably then be, "why aren't the millions of unemployed doing these jobs? They have too easy a life on benefits."

Every indication that we'll be into net minus immigration by the end of the year. Would think that legal migration will cease to be an issue by the time of the next GE.

Plenty of people willing to cover up, facilitate and just plain old "look the other way." Let's start with how much the Royal Family knew (including Queen, Prince Phillip,King Charles and Prince William).

Many years ago, in economics lectures, I was told that companies "generally act in their own interests. " Suspect that heavy investment in AI means that they will be happy to destroy themselves and their customer base in the long term for a short term bump in profits and share prices.

No sign of this story on #R4Today.

Nigel Farage appears to have never met a lot of people.

"Why Matt Goodwin's campaign manager being suspended for anti semitic and misogynistic messages is good news for Nigel Farage and the unstoppable rise of Reform, but yet another headache for Keir Starmer and Labour."

Another example of how the Cameron/Osborne austerity package from 2010 onwards was a time bomb on a very long, slow burn, fuse.

The hollowing out of FE colleges funding since 2010 is a bigger story than the current funding crisis for universities. Doesn't get reported on by our mainly middle class, university educated, media though as they didn't attend them and their kids don't go there.