Paul Lucraft

Single Market membership would bring certainty, lower costs and give firs access to customers and supply chains without constant paperwork and delays. It would support growth in goods and services, not just tidy up the margins. This is the pragmatic route back to serious economic Join the Single Market.

The Single Market was responsible for 41% of the UK’s exports in 2024, and remains the largest trading bloc in the world. Rejoining would eliminate trade barriers for most goods and services, control consumer prices, and allow capital, goods and people to move freely.

Happy International Women’s Day! 💜

#internationalwomensday

So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”.
Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.

The post-Brexit deal for Gibraltar is not 'betrayal' - it is a triumph. Fabian Picardo MP, Chief Minister of Gibraltar.

Fabian Picardo writes that 'ratifying the UK-EU treaty for Gibraltar will be about protecting a community, securing jobs and ensuring stability in a complex post-Brexit world'. It's time for the UK to follow, and continue to negotiate more partnerships with Europe.

Trumpeconomics 🤦🏼‍♀️:

The only thing Trump is ever economical with is the truth.

Happy World Book Day!

Books open up the world to all of us. They are such a vital part of how we learn, think and create - and reading them keeps our brains healthy.

Keep reading!

Great to be with the Scouts and Major Tim Peake (astronaut and Scout ambassador) in Haywards Heath today for the opening of the Barn Scouts centre and community hub. Excellent job done by the Scouts in making all of this happen and creating opportunities for young people.

We've seen before what happens when an American president launches an illegal war with no idea how it is going to end.

Does the Prime Minister not understand that when he fails to stand up to Trump, especially when he's breaking international law, it makes our country less safe?

Millions of families are already at breaking point. Now experts warn energy bills could jump by £500 thanks to Donald Trump’s illegal war.

Today I asked the Prime Minister for a cast-iron guarantee that he will not let energy bills skyrocket again.

He didn’t give it.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Jansen Ganesh is on fire in this column on the UK’s role in the Iran conflict

www.ft.com/content/eaee...

🚨 Rachel Reeves rightly points out the damage Brexit has done to our economy:

"Brexit cut us off from our closest trading partners."

Brexit trademark ruling leaves British brands exposed in EU disputes <p>EU's Court of Justice ruled that UK trademark rights cannot challenge EU trademark applications after December 31, 20

⚠️ This ruling leaves British creatives even more vulnerable in an age of AI. The UK and EU should work together to protect creatives intellectual property.

https://creativesunite.eu/article/brexit-trademark-ruling-leaves-british-brands-exposed-in-eu-disputes

five people on a residential road

Glad to miss the rain and get out to talk to residents in Haywards Heath today.

Starmer needs to get on the phone to Trump and ask him to set out a plan to protect civilians and support a democratic transition in Iran.

We've seen before that bombs don't bring about democracy and regime change without a plan just leads to more chaos and suffering.

If ever you needed a front page to capture the crass yet also dangerous silliness of so much of our media, and the impact of right wing nationalism which has done so much harm through a history from which some seem so unable to learn

The UK can't be dragged into another protracted Middle Eastern war by a US President. Keir Starmer needs to rule out the use of UK bases for any future unilateral US strikes.

BREAKING: Ed Davey responds to the ongoing situation in the Middle East

I agree with the bottom strap line, two party politics is dead. Rest of it is the usual Mail wind ups!

Yet another Brexit prediction turns to dust The europhobes said if we left the EU, other countries would follow. Wrong. In fact, the opposite has happened – nations

❓Has only joined the UK in our self imposed isolation?

No.

🇮🇸 In fact more and more countries are biting at the bit to join the EU and share in its spoils.

https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-withers-yet-another-brexit-prediction-turns-to-dust/

MAGA, remember that you voted for no more foreign wars?

Idiots.

Ed Davey turns Lib Dem fire on Labour in London for May local elections Liberal Democrat leader ramps up his party’s campaign as it seeks to gain control of its fourth London council

Ed Davey turns Liberal Democrat fire on Labour in London as he seeks 'historic' wins in May local elections

A graphic with text that reads 'save the high street'

Community businesses have been continually neglected by this Government, and those in Torbay desperately need support.

The Government should be backing the Liberal Democrat plan for an emergency VAT cut for hospitality until April 2027 to save our high streets.

#Hospitality #HighStreet #Toursim

Pippa Heylings MP: "The Institute for European Environmental Policy has found that since Brexit, the EU has introduced 28 new or strengthened pieces of environmental legislation that the UK has not adopted."

"We have weakened protections in habitats, pesticides, forever, chemicals and fisheries."

'The public want to know why the former Prince Andrew was appointed to this very privileged position'

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey tells #BBCBreakfast why they will call in Parliament for documents to be released on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's appointment as a UK trade envoy

Reform UK’s ICE-style deportation plan condemned as ‘sadistic’ Zia Yusuf sets out proposals and calls migration an ‘invasion’, as rights groups decry ‘grotesque’ measures

⚠️ Natasha Tsangarides, an associate director at Freedom from Torture, said:

“Yusuf’s speech was a grotesque display of ethnonationalist, authoritarian cruelty. His divisive and dangerous proposals threaten to divide families and wreak terror and chaos in our communities.”

Six people outside under grey skies ready to canvas

Alison kneeling next to a pothole in the middle of the road.

Great afternoon yesterday in Lindfield talking to people about the issues that matter to them. I also reported this pothole on Luxford Road.

Anyone can report potholes to West Sussex County Council here: www.westsussex.gov.uk/roads-and-tr...

Lib Dems plan to cut graduate debt for public sector workers The proposal comes more than a decade after former leader Nick Clegg was forced to apologise for breaking a manifesto pledge not to raise tuition fees

Lib Dems plan to cut graduate debt for public sector workers.

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

With scant resources for defence, Britain must prioritise Europe over global ambitions. The Telegraph, 21 February.

We are a European country, and our security depends on acting like one. Britain’s geography hasn’t changed, and neither have the benefits of working with Europe on security and defence.

I've been out campaigning in Sussex where the local elections are back on!

Come join us to help defeat the Conservatives, stop Reform and wipe the smile of Nigel Farage's face in May.