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I won’t get a heat pump unless you ban gas boilers. I will lose a lot of space for a hot water tank and a big chunk of small garden. Think there needs to be something better for flats
January 21, 2026 at 8:17 AM
I won’t get a heat pump unless you ban gas boilers. I will lose a lot of space for a hot water tank and a big chunk of small garden. Think there needs to be something better for flats
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Out of interest, checked what his former wingman had to say on the issue. Nothing, but did come across this gem.
January 19, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Out of interest, checked what his former wingman had to say on the issue. Nothing, but did come across this gem.
as someone who spent six years in failed IVF I can assure you that should not be the first answer to a falling birth rate. It's a great answer for doctors having nicer houses though
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 PM
as someone who spent six years in failed IVF I can assure you that should not be the first answer to a falling birth rate. It's a great answer for doctors having nicer houses though
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Govt is reintroducing Priti Patel's 2022 asylum reforms (temporary protection of 30 momths) without going as far as Braverman 2023
Silly sloganising about "open borders" may explain why it hasn't noticed its own plagiarism & can't answer why the boats didn't stop in 2023
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Silly sloganising about "open borders" may explain why it hasn't noticed its own plagiarism & can't answer why the boats didn't stop in 2023
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Shabana Mahmood is already the third British Asian woman to be a tough talking Home Secretary on asylum. But the fate of Priti Patel's very similar reforms cast doubt on how far these changes are the key to control in the Channel. My Eastern Eye column this week
www.easterneye.biz/shabana-mahm...
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Shabana Mahmood’s hard line on asylum risks repeating Tory failures
Home Office’s statistical bulletin reported last month that the UK received the fifth largest number of asylum seekers in the year ending March 2025
www.easterneye.biz
January 16, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Govt is reintroducing Priti Patel's 2022 asylum reforms (temporary protection of 30 momths) without going as far as Braverman 2023
Silly sloganising about "open borders" may explain why it hasn't noticed its own plagiarism & can't answer why the boats didn't stop in 2023
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Silly sloganising about "open borders" may explain why it hasn't noticed its own plagiarism & can't answer why the boats didn't stop in 2023
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but that assumes that these chancers will take will take the economic beliefs with them.
January 15, 2026 at 6:57 PM
but that assumes that these chancers will take will take the economic beliefs with them.
it would be but something, something, debt on government balance sheet, something, soemthing
January 15, 2026 at 6:55 PM
it would be but something, something, debt on government balance sheet, something, soemthing
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As others have noted, Starmer gave two rather contradictory statements this morning that were evidently written by different members of his team. (Itself a mark of the lack of direction). Someone in Number 10 clearly likes the "open borders" line; someone else doesn't. And Starmer veers between them
January 15, 2026 at 2:52 PM
As others have noted, Starmer gave two rather contradictory statements this morning that were evidently written by different members of his team. (Itself a mark of the lack of direction). Someone in Number 10 clearly likes the "open borders" line; someone else doesn't. And Starmer veers between them
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Agree about this
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i mean there's a lot i wish labour were doing strategically but the 'open borders' line they love so much just does not work. feel like it entirely possible to articulate what was actually so corrosive to public trust (which was saying one thing while doing another)
No 10 says Jenrick was an open borders pro-immigration minister while PM says he was toxic + divisive.
January 15, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Agree about this
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but he does deliberately inflame. When he talks about the incalculable damage of immigration and suggests we risk becoming an island of strangers that is designed to inflame. It is awful. And as a brown person it makes me afraid. And I worked to get him elected!
January 13, 2026 at 4:57 PM
but he does deliberately inflame. When he talks about the incalculable damage of immigration and suggests we risk becoming an island of strangers that is designed to inflame. It is awful. And as a brown person it makes me afraid. And I worked to get him elected!
Did Louise Perry not write a book about how the sexual revolution had gone too far? Is she pro-pron now?
January 12, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Did Louise Perry not write a book about how the sexual revolution had gone too far? Is she pro-pron now?