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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · Mar 23

How Keir Starmer’s ‘insurgent government’ could outpace its opponents

Harnessing the momentum of events, the PM's premiership-defining gamble also serves as a trap for Farage and Badenoch

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How Keir Starmer’s ‘insurgent government’ could outpace its opponents

Keir Starmer has governed in defiance of expectations. From the seat of 10 Downing Street, every policy announcement eschews some past version of the prime minister: the liberal human rights lawyer, t...

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Stephen Morgan MP @stephenmorganmp.bsky.social · Mar 11

We are providing access to specialist mental health professionals in every school.

Under Labour, every young person will have access to early support to address problems before they escalate.

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · Mar 3

🇪🇺🇬🇧 Through my first set of meetings in Brussels. The praise for Starmer is overwhelming: “What he has managed to do is not just good for him. It's good for all of us. Absolutely top notch. This is the UK at its best. The UK we have always admired.

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Neil Henderson @hendopolis.bsky.social · Feb 20

MIRROR: 700,000 reasons to smile #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Stephen Morgan MP @stephenmorganmp.bsky.social · Feb 21

Labour is making childcare more accessible and affordable through our Plan for Change.

✅ Protecting parents from hidden costs
✅ Investing in the system ahead of expansion
✅ Spreading good practice👇🏻
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Hundreds of thousands of parents can now access 15 hours funded childcare for 9-month-olds – how to apply

Hundreds of thousands of eligible working parents can now access 15 hours government-funded early education for children aged 9-months-old and older after new rules kicked in from 1 September 2024. Th...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Feb 15

Why is there a witch hunt against Rachel Reeves?

Rishi Sunak who was also Chancellor literally made his fortune in the financial crash at everyone's expense 🤷‍♂️

Inflating small indiscretions beyond all measure of proportion, that's toxic

Is this really the type of society we want to live in?

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Emma Hardy @emmahardymp.bsky.social · Feb 5

The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens.

The Tories failed to maintain our flood defences putting lives and livelihoods at risk.

Labour is investing a record £2.65bn to upgrade and build defences to protect communities.

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Government to spend extra £200mn on flood defences in England

Environment secretary Steve Reed tells FT previous Tory administration committed a ‘dereliction of duty’

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Jan 31

For example, in her speech, Ms Braverman talks about there being a “fifth column” in British society. A few years ago there would have been talk about her losing the whip. Now such conspiracy is welcomed as telling hard truths. The whole discourse has shifted very rapidly.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Jan 31

NEW: Latest @newsagents.bsky.social.

We need to talk about Suella Braverman.

She made a speech in DC this week which barely caused a murmer. But it was a speech which had echoes of Tommy Robinson. We need to talk about the radicalisaton of the mainstream right.

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We need to talk about Suella Braverman

Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 30/01/2025 · 35m

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Neil Henderson @hendopolis.bsky.social · Jan 29

MIRROR: Reeves Revolution #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Jan 29

Keir Starmer responds to Kemi Badenoch attacks that he’s a “lawyer, not a leader”.

PM says: “She’s not a lawyer, she’s not a leader, if she keeps going like this, she’s going to be the next lettuce”.

#PMQs 🥬

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Jan 25

Asked Wes Streeting at the Fabians New Year conference how Labour deals with Trump and the rise of the right across the world

Streeting says: “It’s our responsibility to be the light on the hill for the progressive world.”

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Stephen Morgan MP @stephenmorganmp.bsky.social · Jan 24

Over 4,000 nurseries, schools and colleges have joined the #EducationNaturePark to improve biodiversity and tackle climate change. Great to join the Nature Park Schools Forum at Natural History Museum to see how children are shaping the future of this brilliant programme

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · Jan 23

Storm Éowyn will hit the UK on Friday morning and is set to bring damaging gusts. Red and amber warnings have been issued⚠️

Watch our latest update on Storm Éowyn 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYVc...

23/01/2025 – Dangerous winds from Storm Éowyn – Met Office weather forecast UK

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · Jan 22

We had really good news this month is on underlying inflation.

Core inflation (excluding energy and food) fell by 0.3ppts, to 3.2% in December.

This is a chunky and important fall.

A chart showing headline and core CPI inflation - core inflation has fallen.

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Ashley Dalton MP @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social · Jan 22

Since announcing my diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer a few weeks ago I’ve become increasingly aware of how misunderstood the condition is.

So I want to debunk a few misconceptions:

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · Jan 19

this is a genuinely alarming story via Gabriel Pogrund in Sunday Times:

deepfake video seen by two million people online falsely made it look as if a teacher - delivering election leaflets - had made a racist tirade

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‘I doorknocked for Labour then racist deepfake ruined my life’

Cheryl Bennett thought she was doing a friend a favour when she agreed to post party leaflets around Dudley. Instead, it nearly got her arrested

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Jan 18

Remember all these headlines describing a brief rise in government borrowing costs as being "market mayhem", followed by a week of demands for Rachel Reeves to quit?

Well one week later and it turns out UK gilts are now outperforming every other G7 country this year, aside from the US

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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · Jan 17

Index of gilt market general news coverage down 80% today.

Looking at the 'economic commentators still active on X' components, it's down almost 100%

Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · Jan 17

Reasonably chunky drop in gilt yields this morning.

The GREAT PANIC of early 2025 has been wiped out.

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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · Jan 17

Believe it or not, gilts have now outperformed all G7 bonds this year apart from U.S. Treasuries.

(h/t @chriswhittall.bsky.social for setting me on this path)

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · Jan 17

The reporting of this stuff has been an absolute clowncar

Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · Jan 17

Believe it or not, gilts have now outperformed all G7 bonds this year apart from U.S. Treasuries.

(h/t @chriswhittall.bsky.social for setting me on this path)

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Jan 16

Chris Bryant, "We have a backlog of 7 million people on the NHS.. Before covid there was a 4.8 million backlog"

"We've had 14 years of not caring for the NHS and now we have got to put it right"

"It is our historic duty to do that because we owe it to the British people" #BBCQT

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · Jan 16

UK national debt increased from about £1 trillion to about £2.5trillion under Badenoch's Conservative party - discuss

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · Jan 16

She says one of the reason is politics is not serious. She said there have been more discussion in parliament of Oasis tickets than of British debt.

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Sophy Ridge @sophyridge.bsky.social · Jan 16

Ryan Wellings has been sentenced to six years for his abuse of Kiena Dawes.

He beat her when she was pregnant, threatened to drill out her teeth, told her she may as well kill herself.

Kiena wrote in her suicide note he was a "monster" who "killed me"

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https://news.sky.com/story/kiena-dawes-abusive-boyfriend-whose-partner-blamed-him-for-her-death-in-suicide-note-jailed-13289362

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PoliticsJOE @politicsjoe.bsky.social · Jan 15

@ liz truss' legal team #pmqs

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