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Remember what happened when Boris Johnson falsely claimed at the despatch box that Keir Starmer had failed to prosecute Jimmy Saville? Days later, Keir Starmer needed police protection as he walked from one Parliament building to another. What Owen Jones did tonight, ... 1/
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I'm excited to say I've become a member of the Labour Party. I joined because I believe Keir Starmer will be one of the best prime ministers of my lifetime and because I want to help elect a bold, creative and fierce Labour Government. 🤩👍⚘️🗳🇬🇧☀️🏴🎈🎉
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A Starmer Government with a majority of 5 seats would be more effective and stable than a Johnson majority of 77.
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So, based on Owen Jones' behaviour tonight and over the last two years, don't be surprised if he or one of his far-left comrades pull a similar stunt during the next General Election campaign. Especially if, as looks likely, they think Starmer is going to win. 4/
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No. He did it because he wants social media to be flooded with video images of Keir Starmer looking hounded, despised and harassed. He wants Keir Starmer gone as leader so that someone from the Corbynite left can pick up from where Jeremy Corbyn left off in December 2019. 3/
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Wes Streeting is now shadowing his fifth Health Secretary in under two years.
Anneliese Dodds is now shadowing her eighth Tory Party Chair.
Yvette Cooper is now shadowing the eighth Home Secretary in eight years.
This isn't a government. It's a joke - at the public's expense.
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in my view, was even worse. He incited members of the public to hurl verbal abuse at Keir Starmer on the street and film it. Did Owen Jones do this because he thinks Sam Tarry is a top bloke? Or because the cause of rail nationalisation is so dear to his heart? 2/
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We need a Labour Government to get public spending under control.
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If Labour win the next election, I'll be able to switch on the news or log onto Twitter without that dready feeling as I wonder, "What will the Tories have done in the last three hours?". I'll be able to consume news like a normal person again.
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So excited about the upcoming by-election in Wakefield. Whoever the Labour candidate is - whether it's Mary Creagh, Ed Balls or someone else - I'll be rooting for them. Can't wait for Wakefield to turn red on the map!
#WakefieldByelection
#VoteLabour
#KeirStarmerForPrimeMinister
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Step by step, Keir Starmer is ending this season of darkness in Britain.
#VoteLabour
Westminster Voting Intention:
LAB: 42% (=)
CON: 34% (-2)
LDM: 8% (-1)
GRN: 5% (+1)
REF: 4% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)
Via
@RedfieldWilton
, 10 April,
Changes w/ 3 April.
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I can't remember Rishi Sunak mention inflation and the cost of living once in his speech last week. Oops...
P.s. When will you ask your boss to put the country out of its misery and call a General Election?
Oops…when the biggest single issue for the economy is inflation it doesn’t get ONE mention from the Shadow Chancellor? Because adding £28 bn a year to borrowing will push it up - meaning higher mortgages, higher debt interest and lower growth…
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I'm convinced of three things: Labour is ready. Keir is ready. Britain is ready.
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I hope this doesn't sound too Kumbaya or naive, but tomorrow shouldn't be a Labour moment or a Conservative moment or an SNP moment. It should be a British moment where MPs show unity. The wrong tone from Humza Yousaf.
If Keir Starmer votes against the SNP motion for an immediate ceasefire because we are rightly calling out the collective punishment of the people of Gaza, he will not be forgiven.
How many children have to die for Labour to do the right thing and support an immediate ceasefire.
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We'll see if women and men consider rape jokes a 'closed' matter at the next General Election.
BREAKING: James Cleverly won’t be punished for date-rape drug joke as PM 'considers matter closed'
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Keir Starmer is the reason I joined the Labour Party. Who would have thought four years ago - just months after the disaster of 2019 - that Labour would now be 20-25 points ahead in the polls? Onward to the General Election so we can finish the job - and improve people's lives.
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This is why we need Keir Starmer in No. 10 and Rachel Reeves in the Treasury.
Budget day blow as analysis finds Tories squandered £125billion in 5 years
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Watching Keir Starmer's speech on Labour's plans for a decade of national renewal. What a contrast to the last 13 years of stagnation and decline.
Watch my speech on Labour’s mission to get Britain building again:
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I was born in 1989. In the 30 years I've been alive, the Republican Party has won the popular vote in a US presidential election only once (2004) but held the presidency for 14 of those 30 years. The Democrats need to make up for lost time - with Pete Buttigieg in the White House
Moving forward with impeachment isn’t just about holding this president accountable. It’s about holding ourselves accountable to preserve the integrity of our constitutional system.
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I'm sick and tired of the UK being governed by and represented by these Conservative bully boys. James Cleverly, Johnny Mercer, Gavin Williamson, Dougie Smith. The list goes on. They're not fit to clean Keir Starmer's boots.
@carolvorders
@FredThomasUK
No he’s not. You are both deliberately misleading people. For clicks. Because that makes your shit lonely life feel better.
No-one normal really cares about your view. They think you’re mad. I’m changing veterans lives. What I came into politics to do.
Keep going.
🤮🤮🤮
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Brilliant to see Keir visit St Fergus today. My brother-in-law, Stuart, works at the site and he got the chance to meet and speak with Keir this morning. He said Keir was terrific.
The road to making Britain a clean energy superpower runs through Scotland and the North Sea.
Our mission will lower bills, create jobs, and secure UK energy.
Great to visit the
@AcornProject_UK
in Aberdeenshire. Labour will partner with them to drive their industry forward.
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No Labour MP would stand up at a conference and stigmatise any type of family - whether it was a nuclear family, a blended family, a single-parent family or a couple without kids. That's why we need Keir Starmer as PM - standing up for every family in the country.
The normative family, the mother and father sticking together for the sake of the children, is the only basis for a safe and functioning society.
Marriage is not only about you, it's a public act to live for the sake of someone else.
-MP
@danny__kruger
at
#NatConUK
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@HackneyAbbott
Hi
@HackneyAbbott
- have you ever thought about resigning your seat so Hackney can have an MP who will actively work towards electing a Labour Government, instead of constantly tearing down those who are?
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Compare and contrast what Angela Rayner is accused of versus the industrial-scale grift, rule-breaking, scandal, corruption and sleaze of the Tory Party:
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Did anyone else just see the BBC News report on inflation and the cost of living crisis? Storage units packed with food and essential supplies - which used to be destined for Africa and Eastern Europe - is now being distributed across the UK.
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Michelle Mone/Doug Barrowman on
@bbclaurak
is the most painful interview I've watched since Prince Andrew on Newsnight. A level of corruption that would make Putin blush. Why hasn't Baroness Mone resigned her seat in the Lords, and why haven't the Tories withdrawn the whip?
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You can tell every time you hear Keir Starmer, a Labour frontbencher or a Labour candidate speak - or see them tweet - they aren't taking anything for granted. They're not complacent. They're grafting for every vote.
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If the rise in inflation is largely or wholly because of Ukraine, post-Covid supply chain issues and the wholesale oil price, as the Tories would have us believe, why is inflation higher in the UK 🇬🇧 than anywhere else in the G7?
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Too right, Rishi. It's called a General Election and a Labour Government.
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While 349 Tory MPs obsess about Rwanda, millions of voters across the UK are longing for an end to this national psychodrama, a return to normalcy, a Labour Government, and for Britain to breathe free of the Conservative Party after 14 long, suffocating years.
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Brilliant to see
@Keir_Starmer
at
@NFUtweets
conference - with the important message that Labour will stand up for British farmers, producers, and the rural economy.
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I can't stop thinking about
@wesstreeting
today - in particular, this clip from last night's QT. Wes, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves give me hope for this country, 🇬🇧 for the Union 🇬🇧🏴🫂 and for Labour. ⚘🗳🌟
Every word of this …. And it is possible to see the Tory resisting the urge to nod along …
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The latest seat projections for Scotland - and they show Aberdeen South turning red.
By voting SNP, you send a message (supposedly). By voting Labour, you send a government to rescue the whole of the UK.
#VoteLabour
#KeirStarmerForPrimeMinister
#TMalikForAberdeenSouth
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Even conservative columnists are now calling for a General Election.
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Sunak couldn't even bring himself to thank the thousands of police officers who put their lives on the line today, and every day, to keep us safe.
Sunak and Braverman aren't fit to clean those brave officers' boots.
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To be clear: the SNP have never had any interest in working with Labour. However, the SNP leadership love-bombing Labour voters before every Scottish and UK election has been part of the SNP's shtick for years.
#BBCLauraK
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Bored. Uninterested. And unwilling to do the work.
Britain needs a General Election and a mission-driven Labour Government led by Keir Starmer.
Politico: "Prime Minister, the King has been at
#COP28
for two days & other world leaders are staying into the weekend. You've been here for a matter of hours & you're due to leave again imminently. You've spent more time on a private plane, than on the ground at the summit .. "
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Rishi Sunak brandishing a copy of a human rights law textbook written by Keir Starmer. Which shows that Keir Starmer is intelligent enough to write a textbook on human rights law. Not the gotcha moment Sunak was hoping for. He really is awful at politics, isn't he?
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The UK economy is now smaller than when Rishi Sunak became prime minister in October 2022.
Also the first time the British economy will be smaller at the end of a Parliament than it was at the start.
The Conservatives have failed Britain.
Working people are the ones who will pay the price for Rishi's recession.
It's time for change.
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It's time for Prime Minister Keir Starmer and a mission-driven, majority Labour Government.
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Castle Point, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield have no Conservative councillors.
#LocalElections2024
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Key takeaways from Keir Starmer's visit:
- Oil & gas will be part of UK's energy future if Labour wins GE
- CCS, hydrogen & offshore wind will be eligible for Labour's British Jobs Bonus
- Labour's plans will support up to 50,000 jobs in Scotland by 2030
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Pete Buttigieg is now second in a national opinion poll for the Democratic primary, just a few points behind Joe Biden. It's like a dream come true. 😍❤️🌈🗳️🇺🇸🎈🏳️🌈🎉🎉
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7News is projecting a Labor majority Government in Australia. Congratulations, Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese!
😍💗⚘☀️🗳🌟👏🎈🎉
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In 2020, in his first speech to Labour Party Conference as leader, Keir Starmer said: "What we say at the next general election isn’t written yet. But it will be rooted in Labour values.
"It won’t sound like anything you’ve heard before. It will sound like the future arriving."
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To give you an idea of how long it's been since Britain last had a General Election: New Zealand has had two General Elections since our last one in 2019.
Britain needs political reform. Britain needs a Labour Government led by Keir Starmer.
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Winston Churchill faced down the tyranny of fascism for five long years as Prime Minister. Margaret Thatcher faced down the Argentinians over the Falklands. Liz Truss can't even face 27 minutes of questions from Andrew Neil or Nick Robinson...
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This is what the coarsening of British politics has led to. The Conservative Party is no longer a governing party. It's a populist, extremist cult.
Hats off to those Tory MPs - including Tobias Ellwood and Alicia Kearns - who have called for this tweet to be removed.
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Government majority down to 56 as Bob Stewart surrenders the Conservative whip.
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Delighted that Labour has won the Dyce, Bucksburn and Danestone by-election. Well done to Aberdeen's newest councillor, Graeme Lawrence!
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To be clear: Wes has never argued for a privatised or insurance-based NHS. The last gasp of the far-left as they search for relevance and attention. Join the Tories, Diane - no-one has done more to help their cause.
Inch by inch Wes is trying to push for a privatised/insurance based NHS all in the name of “reform”
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I'm not so sure Nick Fletcher will have the Conservative whip withdrawn for backing Reform in Ashfield. As we saw a few days ago, Rishi Sunak is so weak William Wragg had to fire himself.
REFORM & LEE ANDERSON MP
I so wish
@LeeAndersonMP_
had remained with the Conservatives. However having lost the whip it would mean the Conservative Party would choose someone other than Lee to fight the election in Ashfield.
I can understand in those circumstances why he
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@Dougwriter
@King4ADay_UK
I'm not interested in defending The Spectator. But I'm definitely interested in Labour persuading and winning over conservative and swing voters.
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Sometimes when a government does something truly heinous, words just don't do the trick. That's when images come to the fore: photography, videography, even cartoons. I think today will be one of those days.
After a number of legal challenges, the first refugee flight to Rwanda prepares to depart
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Another Tory leadership crisis is now imminent.
They've ruined the UK. But rather than apologise or try to fix the mess, they decide now is the time to have another leadership election so they can install a tougher culture warrior like Kemi Badenoch or Suella Braverman as PM.
One figure expected to call on PM to stand down
But another senior party figure expected to back him to stay
Claws out
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Yesterday, Penny Mordaunt was going to be the new Tory Party leader. Today, it's Tom Tugendhat.
If anyone from outside the UK is reading this and wondering how it feels to be governed by the Conservative Party: we are fatigued with them.
.
@alexwickham
@BloombergUK
reports Sunak backing off summer elxn threat as rebels ponder
@TomTugendhat
as PM
The clown show of this Govt gets worse every day.
Smokey was right:
"Now if there's a smile on my face
It's only there trying to fool the public."
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Sunak has done another spreadsheet of his MPs and realised he doesn't have the numbers to cut Inheritance Tax for the richest 4% of estates. So it's removed from the budget, according to reports. Welcome to economic policymaking in the Sunak era.
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Any Tory rebellion on the Budget needs to be tied to a confidence vote. 🤞🙏
EXCL: Conservative MPs are in talks with Labour about how to overturn Kwasi Kwarteng’s budget
Lots of questions about the mechanism, not least because finance bill not expected until next year
But Kwarteng’s opponents think they’ll have the numbers
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I can't wait for Laura Kuenssberg's analysis tomorrow: "a mixed weekend for Labour" and "the Conservatives did better than many people were expecting - with Harlow and the Tees Valley among the bright spots"...
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WKO Scottish kickboxing champion Eilidh Craib (my wonderful niece). She looks absolutely thrilled. Bravo, Eilidh! 🤩💖🏆🥊🥋💪🎈🌟🎉
(Pic: Fraserburgh Fitness Centre)
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Less than two months ago, 60 Tory MPs - the Growth Group - said they would not vote for an Autumn Statement that raised taxes. I hope those 60 MPs will now keep their word - and pave the way for a General Election.
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Deafening silence on Nadhim Zahawi. And Suella Braverman. And Michelle Mone. And Boris Johnson having access to an £800,000 credit facility, and blowing £4,445 of taxpayers' money on a dinner.
Revelations that the former Tory chancellor owes millions of pounds in tax look to have been filed in the "Michelle Mone drawer", Alastair Campbell said.
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The correct response from Sunak would have been, "No, Piers, I'm not your mate down the bookies. You're a journalist and I'm prime minister. I'm not here to place bets on TV, regardless of whether I think planes will take off before the election."
Rishi Sunak has accepted a £1,000 bet from Piers Morgan that deportation flights to Rwanda will be up and running before the General Election.
The full interview is due to be shown on the Piers Morgan Uncensored YouTube channel at 2pm and TalkTV at 8pm on Monday (5 February).
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If you strip out the Government payroll vote, almost 75% of Tory backbenchers voted against Johnson tonight.
The Conservatives: weak, divided and unfit to govern Britain.
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Nadine Dorries calling for a General Election because Liz Truss isn't selling off Channel 4 quickly enough is just too much. 😂😂😂
I had to double-check it wasn't a spoof. But it wasn't. It was 💯% real.
You keep going, Nadine. You keep doing you.
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Another hour, another scandal. This time it's Michelle Donelan.
The Conservatives. Weak. Divided. And unfit to govern Britain.
You need to read the science secretary of state’s withdrawal of extremism claims against a scientist (below) in conjunction with this lawyer’s statement. It is quite the story. I can’t remember another occasion where a serving minister paid damages for
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I may not be holding my postal vote but here I am on the route back from my nearest post box! Anas Sarwar has been a star 🌟 in the 10 weeks since he became leader. Voting Labour because I know Scotland can do so much better than this.
#BothVotesLabour
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Please,
@RishiSunak
- call a General Election. If you love the UK as you say you do, please let us be free from this misery. And if you can't bring yourself to call that election, do the honourable thing: resign.
What a disgusting government we have. And she - deliberately - seeks to be the most disgusting of all of them. Because that is how to become leader when Sunak is gone. Awful awful people wrecking a once great country.
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Using trickle-down economics to improve living standards, boost growth and reduce public debt is like prescribing antidepressants to clear a chest infection.
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I loved seeing Danielle, Ged and Paul get elected three years ago. Not just because they're Labour or Scottish - but because we're from the same age group, something that was really inspiring for me. I hope they run for Holyrood next year! 🤩🤞🌹🗳️🇬🇧🎈🎉
Three years ago today I was first elected to Parliament. A life changing moment, which has led on to some of the most tumultuous years in our country's political history.
It was the honour of my life to represent my home city of Glasgow in Parliament.
I hope I served it well.
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I draw comfort from the idea that we may be only 15 months away from the next General Election. Just 15 months, possibly, until we have the opportunity to end this unrelenting hell.
Very telling response from Boris Johnson to a question about whether he carries responsibility for Keir Starmer receiving death threats over his Savile smear. Not even a token condemnation.
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Ahh, so the Natalie Elphicke allegations have nothing to do with the Tory Party when she's a Tory MP, but everything to do with Labour now she's a Labour MP, because Laura Kuenssberg says so. Got it.
Exchange of the day:
Kuenssberg: "Either Elphicke isn't telling the truth or Buckland, who is a KC and was Lord Chancellor, isn't telling the truth."
Ashworth: "Why is this coming out now? Buckland didn't say anything at the time."
Kuenssberg: "This is about what happens now."
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The Conservative Party has no heart, no soul, and no decency left. Every day they continue in office is another day of shame for the UK. I have everything crossed for Sarah Edwards to win the Tamworth by-election on Thursday.
#VoteLabour
#TamworthByElection
Nightmare
The Tory candidate in the Tamworth by-election is refusing to apologise for saying families who are struggling to feed their kids should ‘f*** off’
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Keir Starmer: "13 years of things can only get better versus 13 years of things only got worse". 👏👏👏
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This is what Scottish politics has become. If you disagree with the SNP, you're anti-Scottish, "talking Scotland down" and a traitor.
I'd point out to the editor of The P&J: it's not Labour who caused the UK to fall into recession. It's the Conservatives.
According to industry experts Labour's plans risk 100,000 jobs.
The SNP supports a windfall tax, but Labour's raid on the North East would cost jobs in order to pay for more nuclear power plants in England.
Sarwar stands up for Starmer, while
@theSNP
will stand up for Scotland.
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I hope you'll join me in wishing my granny (and lodger of nearly 35 years) a very happy 90th birthday! She's an absolute star.
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Never let this become normal. Never become accepting of it or desensitised to it. Never let Johnson's behaviour be 'priced in'. Be offended and outraged. And, above all, let's elect a Keir Starmer-led Labour Government at the next General Election.
EXCL:
@ITVNews
has obtained pictures of Boris Johnson drinking at a No10 party during lockdown in November 2020.
The photos cast fresh doubt on the PM's repeated claims he was unaware of rule-breaking in No10 during the pandemic.
See all images here:
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I had hoped, as a sitting Conservative MP, that he would take his role in choosing a new Prime Minister a bit more seriously.
I have sought counsel from those I can trust to blow smoke up my arse 💨
That, when weighed against my own inflated sense of self-importance, leads me to conclude that I should throw my hat 🎩into the ring and stand for election as Leader of the
@Conservative
and Unionist Party
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Conservative MP Sir Charles Walker has said publicly that Rishi Sunak should call a snap General Election if the Tories vote down their Rwanda Bill tomorrow.
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I long for Britain to be free of this Conservative Government. The thought of Labour winning a majority and Keir becoming our prime minister is keeping me going.
Jenrick’s resignation signals the beginning of the end of this government. It may even implode by the Spring. Of course an early election would be a disaster for the Tories - but the hatreds, animosities and despair are becoming unmanageable. Implosion is possible.
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The difference between the Conservative Government and the Labour frontbench couldn't be more obvious. The Conservatives: arrogant, sleazy, incompetent and unwilling to do the work. Labour: bright, articulate, capable and hungry to win for Britain.
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Brandon Lewis can be a British MP or a Russian apologist. He cannot be both. He should therefore resign. If he refuses to resign, Sunak should withdraw the whip.
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I'm so happy, relieved and delighted that Diane Abbott has had the Labour whip removed for her repugnant views. Apart from Corbyn, I can't think of anyone who has done more damage to Labour and the prospect of a Labour Government.
BREAKING: Diane Abbott has had the Labour Party whip suspended following a letter she wrote in the Observer which appeared to diminish the seriousness of antisemitism.
Her apology does not appear to have been enough.
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@joseph_beagley
@AmbassadorRice
You would be a wonderful VP or Secretary of State,
@AmbassadorRice
! Good luck! 🤩👍❤️🗳️🤞🏳️🌈👏🇺🇸🙏🎈🎉
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The shortest King's Speech since 2014. Just 21 bills - and not all of those will receive Royal Assent before the General Election. Speaks volumes. The Tories have run out of road.
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Really encouraging to see the BBC, Sky and Channel 4 call Rishi Sunak and James Cleverly out for lying. I'm pleased to see our biggest news organisations tackling disinformation head on - especially in this General Election year.
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Today in British politics:
- Your right to strike is being weakened,
- Your right to protest is being curtailed,
- Sunak wants to tell you which bathroom you can and cannot use, and
- It's perfectly OK for Nadhim Zahawi to be asked by HMRC to settle a tax bill of £3.7m. 👍
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This from a man who spends £100 on a haircut.
This from a man who has one eye on retirement because of a Lib Dem revival in his constituency.
This from a man who, as the landlord of a luxury flat, jacked up his tenants' rent by 18%.
Do us a favour, Mr Hunt: resign.
🚨 NEW: Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will tell the disabled to work from home or lose their benefits tomorrow
[
@Independent
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No,
@RishiSunak
- the British public aren't exhausted with politics. We're exhausted with the Conservative Party.
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The front page of today's Sunday Mail was a disgrace. Buying our council house was a proud moment for my parents too. Whoever wrote that headline obviously doesn't understand the aspirations of working people.
Being able to buy my council house back in 2007 was a proud moment for me. I worked hard, saved and bought it by the book.
I’m not ashamed - but I am angry that the Tories have since put the dream of a secure home out of reach for so many others. 🏡 🧵
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I'm old enough to remember when Wendy Alexander resigned as leader of Scottish Labour because of a £950 donation.
Compare that with the alleged industrial-scale rule-breaking of the Sturgeon-Murrell era and the last 13 years of Conservative sleaze...
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On the topic of providing a minimum service, a third of Conservative peers (32%) haven't spoken in the House of Lords or submitted a question in more than three months, according to Byline Times. One in 12 Tory peers (8%) haven't contributed in more than 1,000 days.
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New Zealand has had two general elections, American voters have voted in two different sets of presidential primaries, and the Metro mayors in England have faced re-election twice since Britain last had a General Election.
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Cllr Ann Ross has resigned as a Conservative during the Budget debate in Aberdeenshire Council earlier today. Cllr Ross branded the atmosphere in the Conservative group - which runs the Council administration - and the West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine association as "toxic".
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If you look at the recent history of Leaders of the Opposition in the UK, there's a pattern: after their 1st election defeat, the new opposition chooses a unity candidate as leader. After a 2nd defeat, a combative ideologue. After a 3rd/4th defeat, an electable centrist.
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Four days into this leadership contest, I'm getting weary of the contenders' attitude to wealth. I'm not jealous or anti-aspirational. But I'm tired of millionaire Conservatives pretending they're on the breadline. It's an insult to those of us who grew up in families who were.
"Rishi was born into a relatively humble beginning" - Sunak-backing Robert Jenrick
Only in the Conservative Party could the son of a GP and owner of a pharmacy sent to £46,000-a-year Winchester College come from a "relatively humble" background 😃
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