JP Cherrington

Shutdown ends. Breakdown begins.

New set of forest towns to be built between Oxford and Cambridge Communities in the middle of new national forest to show how housebuilding can be delivered alongside nature

A genuinely visionary policy announced today -new towns to be built beside newly planted forests so everyone there will be10 minutes walk away from wild spaces. Let’s hope they also build the quality social infrastructure communities need. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oh!-Bet-ur-very annoyed.

Don’t be late!

Nigel Farage’s partner embroiled in Brussels fraud investigation Laure Ferrari’s Eurosceptic group was at the centre of fraud scandal that led to ongoing criminal case

Farage partner involved in fraud investigation
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£6 million repaid to workers as Government cracks down on employers underpaying their staff Nearly 500 employers fined over £10 million for failing to pay the National Minimum Wage

Minimum wage

491 employers have been found to be failing to pay minimum wage in the latest round of checks published today.

They have been finded over £10m and over £6m in pay has been handed over to 42,000 workers.

Soon, the Fair Work Agency will be in action, with even more enforcement powers!

Political dynamite 😉

Record number of gang leaders charged for county lines offences A record 2,300 ‘deal lines’ closed in first year of this government.

County Lines

Since Labour came to power and invested in the County Lines Programme, record outcomes have been reported:

1,120 senior gang members charged

Over 2300 'deal lines' closed down

stabbings down 20% in county line areas

3,200 children & vulnerable people supported

More of this please!

Mission Critical 04: Building a new relationship between people and the state - Future Governance Forum Mission Critical 04: Building a new relationship between people and the state, proposes a framework for delivering a new relationship between people and the state to enable the delivery of the nationa...

At #Lab25 conference it was clear ministers are committed to investment at local level via the £5bn Pride in Place plan, but its delivery will be critical.

Read a new report by FGF & @localtrust.org.uk which has our recommendations for government 🔽

www.futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/resource/mis...

Nathan’s mate Nigel sure did seem to want to brush it all away when questioned by Matt Frei back in 2019.

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

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

It’s my party, I’ll decry who I want to.

This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else

Attitudes to immigration by party.

The black line are the British public. Reform voters are the outliers, not the best match

The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Guys will advocate for processes that by their own account have brought tragedy and misery, that everything we know suggests will make everyone involved worse off and less secure, rather than admit that maybe the 2010 to 2024 government failed through no-one's fault but its own.

Well this made me cry.

I’m just a jealous gynaecologist

🚨 How to defeat Reform - *Exclusive* with political polling analyst Steve Akehurst | The New Statesman: politics and culture

Worth relistening to @rmcunliffe.bsky.social and my chat with @steveakehurst.bsky.social on the @newstatesman.com podcast who did a clinical trial-style experiment on what messaging against Reform UK worked among a cross-section of voters:

The deadline to make your submission to Ofgem is this Friday.

Don't let the man who switched off Starlink in Ukraine, helping Putin, have the keys to switch off your electricity here in the UK.

Fall or do not fall. There is no try.

A reminder: Asylum seekers are in hotels because of a huge application backlog that the gov't must work through. Robert Jenrick - now, bursting with creative solutions - processed applications slowly ***on purpose*** as a deterrent.

Here he is, as Immigration Minister two years ago, saying so. ~AA

Rare copy of early Craig David manuscript discovered

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How tackling throwaway culture could help Labour win back its voters Since the 2024 election, we’ve heard a lot about how the government must find new votes to maintain its historic majority beyond this term. No sooner had the dust settled on the victory than More i…

Policies like a consumer "right to repair" perform particularly well with Reform-curious Labour voters.

This is just one reason why Charles Long says the #CircularEconomyStrategy could be an opportunity for Labour to win some poll points back:

Concerned locals.

Ordinary mums and dads.

Just members of.. checks notes... Combat 18.

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. The “one in 12” claim was not included in the report – rather, the publication had calculated it using the estimates the report provided. By its own admission, it has done so inaccurately. It had failed to add the estimated migrant population to the overall population it had based the article upon. In addition, it had not taken account of the fact, in its reporting, that the report was based on the population of the Thames Water London Water Resource Zone - rather than of London itself. This represented a failure to take care on the part of the publication – and had resulted in the publication of inaccurate information, which had appeared in the headline, and on the front page, of the newspaper. 42. The Committee also noted that the headline referred to “one in 12” in London being an illegal migrant - it was not made clear that this was, in fact, “up to one in 12”, based on the publication’s calculations. The Committee considered that this also represented a failure to take care. While the article went on to report that “London is home to as many as 585,000 illegal migrants”, it considered that reporting that “[o]ne in 12 in London is illegal migrant”in the headline – rather than up to one in 12 - was misleading. This was because it gave the misleading impression that it had been established by the figures given in the report that this was the definitive position – rather than the highest estimated figure.

IPSO ruling on my complaint about the Telegraph's "1 in 12 Londoners is illegal migrant" headline.

IPSO found that Telegraph breached Code by publishing false info and failing to take due care.

But (1/3)..

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0025...

‘The right wing hates London – it proves their politics wrong’ | The News Agents Right-wing politicians and activists will tell you London is a dangerous place, overrun with crime and migrants, and is slowly collapsing. This isn’t true. So why the lies and anger directed at the UK...

"London lives rent free inside the heads of right wing activists, because it shows how completely wrong they are in their politics every day of the week."

You might have heard how dangerous London is – but that's not really the truth...