Keir Starmer announces thousands of new police - how many your area will get

Keir Starmer has pledged 3,000 more neighbourhood police will be in place by next year as he promised a summer crime "blitz".

Nigel Farage Pictured With Far-Right Activists Who Posted 'Pride Swastikas' and Racist Rants EXCLUSIVE: The Reform UK leader posed for pictures with the group of prominent far-right activists known for their extreme, racist and Islamophobic posts

🔴Nigel Farage Pictured With Far-Right Activists Who Posted ‘Pride Swastikas’ and Racist Rants

The Reform UK leader posed for pictures with the group of prominent far-right activists known for their extreme, racist and Islamophobic posts

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Kindly corrected my name. Pleased to see a thorough article missing from many other news outlets so easy to forgive.

Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks

Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...

Find a union for you More than 6 million people are in a union, isn't it time you joined a union?

A handy union finder from @the-tuc.bsky.social

www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion

“4 in 5 UK musicians have lost work because of Brexit”: Unwrapping the legacy of Britain's EU exit on musicians A shocking insight into how British musicians have suffered in the wake of the country's 2016 referendum to leave the European Union

“4 in 5 UK musicians have lost work because of Brexit”

A shocking insight into how British musicians have suffered in the wake of the country's 2016 referendum to leave the European Union

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Putting power back into local communities is a priority of mine and of this government.

Our government’s desire is to take power out of Westminster and give it back to local communities, while working with local councils collaboratively to achieve better outcomes for the communities they serve.

We are working across Local Government to drive reform and prevention as the foundation of rebuilding local public services, tackling spiraling cost and delivering better outcomes.

Great to work alongside Georgia Gould at the Cabinet Office and colleagues in local government as it builds.

Tuesday’s @theguardian.com front page: Labour makes pledge to ensure ‘no young person is left behind’ www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Indeed. Still we tried and if COVID hadn't intervened we might have pulled it off.

I've arrived on Bluesky. Looking forward to the prospect if something more civilised than X.