Sarah Chapman

Fair enough.

Clearly no one commenting below actually bothered to read the fucking article. In which the ambassador literally contradicts the headline. Jesus wept, this is so poor.

This is LITERALLY contradicted within the actual article.

"The ambassador Pedro Serrano is said by the Guardian’s sources to have...warned [the environment secretary]that the planning and infrastructure bill going through the House of Lords could jeopardise the trade deal. However, the ambassador responded that he had made no such comment". FOR FUCKS SAKE.

Time for what? what are they going to do?

Maternity and paternity pay must improve.

Parents shouldn’t have to choose between bonding with their baby and paying the bills.

They shouldn't be ground down by poverty or rushed back to work.

Properly supporting families with their first steps is an investment in our future.

I don't disagree with anything you say. But I think the point of the article was to show what spending cuts would look like in reality - it is aimed at those who glibly say that spending cuts are "easy", because all you have to do is "cut waste" or "DEI initiatives".

Did you not see the figures for the Greens?

Mail won't tell you that.

What that makes very clear is that if you want to cut welfare spending, you have to start cutting benefits to pensioners. As they make up 70% of all welfare spending. If you don't, then the burden of any cuts falls disproportionately on the other 30% - the poor, the disabled, children. The Daily

No, you haven't read it. The point it is making is that in the real world spending cuts are very hard to make - unless you are prepared to be incredibly unpopular.

He is a chaos merchant. People like him thrive on upheaval. And of course he thinks he is immune from violence himself.

Yes, you've made your view clear. So let's just see, shall we?

20,000 UK jobs secured as Türkiye buys 20 Typhoon jets in biggest fighter jet deal in a generation Thousands of skilled UK jobs have been secured for years to come as the UK and Türkiye sign a deal worth up to £8 billion for 20 UK Typhoon fighter jets – the biggest fighter jet exports deal in a gen...

Another major defence contract for the UK from a NATO ally.

This time with Türkiye buying 20 Typhoon jets - the biggest fighter jet deal in a generation, worth up to £8bn &supporting thousands of jobs across the UK.

It follows a major contract win with Norway for firgates &other smaller projects.

Reform MP's comments 'ugly' but intention was not racist, Farage says Sarah Pochin apologised after complaining about adverts being

Starmer on Sarah Pochin’s comments:
"It’s shocking racism and it’s the sort of thing that’ll tear our country apart. And tells you everything about Reform. Nigel Farage either doesn’t consider it racist which I think is shocking in itself or he does and shows absolutely no leadership.”

Farage says:

That is nonsense. It is a worrying proportion, but far from "pretty much every young man".

Notice she doesn't mention that one of the reasons trust in policing has collapsed is because we are constantly finding out how utterly racist and misogynistic large sections of our police force are....

It's antisemitic to insist they...actually cease firing.

That was the narrative - but actually it was the economy starting to improve that really turned things around.

Great keeper and a tight defence. I would like to see our midfield more creative - but again that should come.

I have a stocks and shares ISA. It's done far better than sticking the money in a savings account (apart from a blip in the Truss period).

What do you think left wing issues are?

Could someone please tell the CPRE?

Hard left? are you fucking insane????

What an incredibly depressing person you are.

I know someone who was an employee of his at the DPP - they said he was a brilliant boss. It's clearly there - not sure why he won't use it as PM.

Yeah, I saw it just the other day.

It was the right decision to means test it. As you say, the fault was setting the qualifying amount too low. But its far more cost-effective and efficient to use an existing means test (in this case Pension Credit) as your benchmark rather than inventing a new one.

Honestly, all of this makes the government's original decision not to hold yet another enquiry into this subject seem like the right one.

I wish to god someone would show this to the CPRE