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🔥 Excellent from Lisa Nandy!

"I've seen this before. When I was growing up in Manchester, my dad used to debate with Enoch Powell."

"What you're doing is trying to create fear and distrust and division, because that's the only way that you and your friends can thrive."

King Charles strips Andrew of prince title and ejects him from mansion Royal subject to ‘censures deemed necessary’ in sharp change of tone by Buckingham Palace

This is the Royal equivalent of the amputation of a gangrenous limb to stop the rest of The Firm getting infected.

An act of self-preservation.

If it was integrity, then they'd have booted Andrew out years ago.

They didn't.

www.ft.com/content/a7d6...

Obviously trusting an estate agent to do *anything* is a serious lapse of judgement. But on the whole, this makes Badenoch calling for Reeves to resign look even sillier.

New - Harvey & Wheeler, the estate agents used by Rachel Reeves to rent out her property have apologised for an "oversight" after they did not apply for a licence on her behalf, having offered to do so.

In the all-conquering media/politics ecosystem that brought you Brexit, Boris Johnson, austerity, Liz Truss & the recent revival of weapons grade racism, she really is the Newcomer of the Year. Hands down. And the Spectator is now owned by a man who basked in the ugliest depths of far right Twitter.

This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?

Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage Exclusive: Five women said Reform leader’s comments that they were victims of other types of sexual abuse were ‘degrading’

What a hideous man he is.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage Exclusive: Five women said Reform leader’s comments that they were victims of other types of sexual abuse were ‘degrading’

Just when you think this piece of sh*t couldn’t stoop lower than weaponising the trauma women suffered as victims of grooming gangs to for his racist, anti migrant campaign..

Farage sinks lower by insulting 5 of the victims, saying they were victims of other sex abuse not grooming gangs❗️😱😡

I'd also repeat my plea that those reporting on Parliament try to understand what procedures (and government/Party responses) actually mean in reality. It's frustrating to see heat not light.

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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Unbelievable thread.
(You should be following Emma btw.)

In the last few days, the Times has had to delete two stories. One because someone pretended to be former Mayor Bill de Blasio to a reporter and one because they wrote up nonsense about Torsten Bell's expenses.

Needs a new editor badly.

Treasury minister leading budget plans spent £900 on desk Torsten Bell, who is working with Rachel Reeves to fill a £30 billion hole in finances, also used his parliamentary expenses to claim £600 for three chairs

Totally untrue garbage from @thetimes.com & @dailymail.co.uk today - smear dressed up as journalism. Some facts:
- There is no “£900 desk”
- my constituency office has Ikea desks/chairs
- we significantly underspent the new MPs allowance to set up an office
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Moment GB News guest thrown off air after fierce immigration clash GB News presenter Martin Daubney was forced to cut off an interview after clashing with Jonathan Portes over immigration

A broadly accurate account of my GB News interview with Martin Daubney 😉

“I’ve corrected you on this before, Martin, so let me do it again.” After he cited figures, Martin revealed they were out of time – and was forced to abruptly cut off the interview.

www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-r...

Has he been holding the graph upside down?

Too many want to do Britain down – Labour will defy the doomsayers and beat the forecasts | Rachel Reeves I don’t pretend the choices will be easy, but my budget has one focus: to invest in building a better future for everyone, says UK chancellor Rachel Reeves

Too many want to do Britain down – Labour will defy the doomsayers and beat the forecasts | Rachel Reeves

Coventry South needs a by-election soon Zarah Sultana has no mandate for disarming the people of Britain and betraying Ukraine

"To say 'Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class' is an insulting, facile distraction from the fact that Sultana refuses to support the Ukrainian people’s fight for existence."

Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.

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Factionalism, farce and chaos dog Reform UK in the garden of England All is not well in Kent for Nigel Farage’s party as the recent video of an incendiary meeting suggests

Not sure why this was kind of buried in the Guardian story

Kent leader Kemkaran "failed to ensure that her register of interests listed the fact that her husband is the director of digital transformation at East Kent’s health authority"

It's a criminal offence to knowingly omit relevant interests.

Danny Kruger’s interview this morning feels like a cautionary tale for Tory MPs thinking of defecting. He’s about to launch his grand new Reform policy and instead has to painfully blither that yes Sarah Pochin shouldn’t be suspended and what the difference is between racism and racist intent.

Five Reform UK councillors booted out of party in Kent It comes after a damaging video leak of the Kent County Council leader shouting and swearing.

Over 5% of the Reform councillors elected in May have now either resigned or been fired.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 WATCH: David Lammy lists rapists accidentally released under the Tories as he hits back at Robert Jenrick

"Was there an independent investigation? No!"

"He comes here and has the brass neck - the brass neck - to give the impression this started 14 months ago"

Straight to ‘let’s have a debate about whether racism is racism’ for *almost* all of the UK media. Nothing learned from the lessons of Brexit, Trump & Johnson. But on we go.

YouTube video by Politics In The U.K. Labour’s David Lammy is dissing Tories hard - Farage’s agent Jenrick will be crying all the way home

Labour’s David Lammy is dissing Tories hard - Farage’s agent Jenrick will be crying all the way home. #ukpolitics

UK opens up more driving test slots to help reduce backlog Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency says learners booking tests earlier has contributed to rising demand

🚘 We're tackling the driving test backlog – 20k more tests in Sept vs last year.

I've heard from constituents struggling to book. I raised this with DVSA & govt is taking action: more examiners, better systems, 7-week wait target by summer 2026.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Retail sales rose by 0.5% in Sept but were expected to shrink by 0.2%, so 0.7 points better than expected!

This marks four months in a row they have increased & are now the highest since July 2022.

Growing retail sales suggests economic growth is likely.

#Labour

15 key findings from bombshell asylum hotel report - Tory catalogue of failure A scathing report by MPs found a failure of leadership while the Tories were in power saw private firms make huge profits housing asylum seekers in hotels as the backlog ballooned

The Tories lost control of the asylum system and had a complete disregard for the tensions created in communities across the country, in fact some of their local candidates would line up and blame the local council to deflect responsibility (1/2)

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Priti Patel & contracts? Until 2000, after graduation, Patel worked for Tory party. She left to work for a PR consulting firm, then (2003-2007) in corporate relations for a booze company. By 2007, she was Director of Corporate and Public Affairs for original PR consultants. In 2010 she became an MP.

The select committee report on the asylum hotel shambles highlights a point I made repeatedly - the absurd gimicks pursued by the last govt like Rwanda took resources away from running the actual system properly.

Keir Starmer shares post-punk passion and revisits musical past Prime minister praises Scottish band Orange Juice and shares details about his family life in Radio 3 interview Keir Starmer has said he is a fan of the Scottish post-punk band Orange Juice and northern soul, in a deep dive of his musical tastes and personal life. On BBC Radio 3’s Private Passions, Starmer chose a selection of his favourite music including works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Elgar, and reflected on his own musical journey, which included learning to play violin alongside Norman Cook, AKA Fatboy Slim, at school. Continue reading...

Keir Starmer shares post-punk passion and revisits musical past

Private Passions - The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer - BBC Sounds Michael Berkeley’s guest is the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer.

A quietly revealing listen, showcasing the human qualities of our PM - and Michael Berkeley’s skills as a music lobbyist. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...