Andrew Sparrow

Thanks. That's helpful. Hadn't picked that up ...

Home Office reveals how people will be chosen to come to UK from France under ‘one in, one out’ scheme – as it happened People will be chosen via three-stage process, with government expected to accept around 50 migrants a week when scheme starts

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Thanks @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social.

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Home Office reveals how migrants will be chosen to come to UK from France under 'one in, one out' returns scheme - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Sounds very possible ...

Reeves confirms Treasury reviewing gambling taxes, hinting she is open to Brown's plan to use them to tackle child poverty - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

headline them in terms of countries being affected, not US consumers. You could not headline it round consumers because sometimes they are not affected (if firms absorb extra costs themselves) 2/2

You're right about US consumers paying a cost, but I think you are underestimating the extent to which tariffs harm the exporters affected. They suppress sales, and therefore profits, and can make some markets unviable. That is why countries fight to hard to avoid them. And that's why news orgs 1/2

Brown says two-child benefit cap functions as 'built-in escalator' for child poverty figures, pushing them towards 5m - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Brown suggests review should consider future of pension triple lock - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

UK politics live: Gordon Brown calls for extra defence spending to be exempt from fiscal rules Former PM says ‘exceptional’ aim to spend 5% of GDP should be a joint Nato and European initiative financed via bonds or a defence fund

Brown says having Europe-wide borrowing plan for extra defence spending would give markets assurance they need - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

UK politics live: Gordon Brown calls for extra defence spending to be exempt from fiscal rules Former PM says ‘exceptional’ aim to spend 5% of GDP should be a joint Nato and European initiative financed via bonds or a defence fund

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Reeves urged to consider replacing council tax as thinktank warns of ‘impossible trilemma’ for chancellor – UK politics live The National Institute of Economic and Social Research says government’s spending gap is on course to reach more than £40bn

Starmer declines to rule out election pledge-breaking tax rises in budget, after claim Treasury must fill £40bn deficit - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Ethics watchdog says it is 'inappropriate' for Labour to keep system letting ministers direct Electoral Commission - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

NIESR urges Reeves to consider replacing council tax with land value tax, saying it would raise money and be 'much fairer' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’

‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, Lisa Nandy warns - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Support for hardline anti-immigration policies linked to ignorance about migration figures, poll suggests – UK politics live Almost half of voters either strongly or somewhat support ‘admitting no more new migrants and requiring large numbers who came in recent years to leave’, says YouGov

Badenoch calls for 'full transparency' about crime suspects - as Tories criticised over claims linking migrants to sex offences - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Thanks. Will change that

Yvette Cooper says ‘crammed’ small boats using shallow water launches behind rise in arrival numbers – UK politics live Home secretary says both issues are being addressed as ‘one in, one out’ pilot scheme with France begins

Support for hardline anti-immigration policies linked to ignorance about migration figures, poll suggests - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Holyrood should do more to help people combine being MSPs with being parents, says deputy FM Kate Forbes - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Prison overcrowding crisis so severe under Tories officials thought collapse would lead to public inquiry, report says - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Ex-prison governor advising Reform UK says she does not agree with Farage/Pochin comments disparaging female officers - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

How Reform UK's new adviser said Starmer making James Timpson Labour's prisons minister was 'stroke of genius' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

No 10 says Hamas won't have 'veto' over UK recognition of Palestine, implying it won't require further hostage releases - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Scottish Labour says SNP's former rising stars are 'abandoning the stage' as MSPs pay tribute to Kate Forbes - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

What Kate Forbes' departure from Holyrood would mean for future SNP leadership contest - @severincarrell.bsky.social reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Scotland's deputy FM Kate Forbes to quit Holyrood next year, saying she wants to spend more time with her young family, @severincarrell.bsky.social reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

UK politics live: minister pushes back at Tory claims linking small boat arrivals to sexual crime Angela Eagle says data is not there to support Robert Jenrick’s assertions as Nigel Farage prepares to also address issue in press conference

Angela Eagle pushes back at Tory claims linking small boat arrivals to sexual crime, saying robust data not available - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Excellent overview …

Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds says peers arguing Palestinian state recognition unlawful 'missing the point' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

He does, but by serious leftwingers I meant people who are seriously leftwing, not leftwing ppl who are serious. I probably shd have made that clearer