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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 23/03/2025

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 Latest long-read for @politics-co-uk.bsky.social 👇 www.politics.co.uk/week-in-revi...

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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 · 11/03/2025

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 · 03/03/2025

🇪🇺🇬🇧 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 · 20/02/2025

MIRROR: 700,000 reasons to smile #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Stephen Morgan MP @stephenmorganmp.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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👇🏻 educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2025/02/how-...

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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 · 15/02/2025

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 · 05/02/2025

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. www.ft.com/content/4d8a...

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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 · 31/01/2025

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 · 31/01/2025

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. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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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 · 29/01/2025

MIRROR: Reeves Revolution #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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 · 25/01/2025

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 · 24/01/2025

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 · 23/01/2025

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...

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

YouTube video by Met Office - UK Weather

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 22/01/2025

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 · 22/01/2025

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: 1/7 (short posts!)

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

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 www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

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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 · 18/01/2025

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 · 17/01/2025

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%

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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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 · 17/01/2025

The reporting of this stuff has been an absolute clowncar

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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 · 16/01/2025

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

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Sophy Ridge @sophyridge.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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" t.co/MSJHf36qiJ

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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 · 15/01/2025

@ liz truss' legal team #pmqs

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PoliticsJOE @politicsjoe.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

BREAKING 🚨 A ceasefire agreement between the Israeli government and Hamas has been reached. The deal secures the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, the release of Palestinian detainees held by Israel, and the withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza.

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Andy Comfort @andycomfort.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

It’s the dress rehearsal for the Not the BBC Panto tonight before we open on Friday. Tickets are going well, with a good crowd expected in Brid and 900+ tickets sold for our 2 Hull shows but we’d love some more of you to come - Saturday evening’s show has good seats - details:

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

EXCL: A dozen Reform UK councillors have given notice of their intention to resign en masse in protest at Nigel Farage’s leadership @benquinn75.bsky.social reports www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Twelve Reform UK councillors to resign over Nigel Farage’s leadership

Exclusive: Departures will add to pressure on party leader after Elon Musk said he was ‘not up to the job’

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Nazir Afzal, "When Keir Starmer and I left the CPS we had the highest rate of child sexual abuse prosecutions in our history.. That is Keir Starmer's legacy" "Boris Johnson said that investigating child sexual abuse was money spaffed up a wall"

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Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Just like much of the furore this week, here is an example of a law passed 4 years ago and the Tories did nothing with it. Within months of us being in power we delivered the scheme because we are about actual actions and real outcomes. They talked we walked. www.burytimes.co.uk/news/2484314...

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Man sentenced as GMP secures biggest penalty in Bury domestic violence pilot scheme

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has secured the biggest penalty so far for the breach of a domestic abuse protection order (DAPO) as part of a pilot…

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

🚨🚨 in case you’re wondering why the Tories didn’t implement the Alexis Jay report into child sex abuse we reveal tonight that her proposal for a compensation scheme for victims would cost £5-10bn according to preliminary Whitehall estimates www.ft.com/content/cef1...

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Whitehall estimates child sexual abuse compensation could hit £10bn

Starmer has criticised previous Conservative government for not implementing recommendations of 2022 Jay review

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Professor Alexis Jay, who led a 7-year review of sexual abuse which reported in 2022, says starting a new inquiry would delay any implementation of her own recommendations:

Professor Alexis Jay said that starting a new inquiry could hinder the implementation of the recommendations from her 2022 report.
"We have set out what action is required and people should just get on with it," she told the BBC.
She added: "I've certainly been very unhappy about the politicisation of child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse in the way that many people, sometimes in a very uninformed way, have waded into the argument."

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Professor Alexis Jay, "I'm unhappy about the politicisation of child sexual exploitation.. The time has passed for more inquiries" "Victims want action. We have set out what action is required. Politicians should just get on with it"

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

one of the most thorough skewerings I’ve ever seen during PMQs

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Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Cathy Newman, "Some of your opponents have said that you're afraid of upsetting ethnic minority constituents" Jess Phillips, "That's deeply offence. I'm not afraid of offending anyone who is a rapist. I want to see them all taken down. I don't need an inquiry to tell me that's what needs to happen"

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George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

i: NHS will send extra 2.5 million patients to private hospitals in ‘urgent’ attempt to cut waiting lists #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Dan Aldridge MP @danaldridgemp.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

"He has the potential to incite hatred in ways that I have never seen" Former Tory No 10 advisor Samuel Kasumu says some of Robert Jenrick's comments over the last 12 months could "result in some people maybe even dying" We deserve better than the toxic, decisive language some have normalised.

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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 06/01/2025

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer responds to Elon Musk “ Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible, they’re not interested in victims. They’re interested in themselves.” Full statement 👇 www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...

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Starmer hits back at Elon Musk: ‘Desperate for attention’ and ‘spreading lies’ - Politics.co.uk

Keir Starmer appeared to accuse Elon Musk of “spreading lies” in a lengthy public statement following weeks in which the tech billionaire has criticised his government. After delivering a speech on r...

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

PM says he wants to "call out" conduct of Tory politicians who sat in govt now "jumping on a bandwagon" of the far right over grooming gangs. "Once we lose the anchor that truth matters in the robust debate we must have, then we're on a very slippery slope."

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 06/01/2025

Starmer: "Those who are cheerleading Tommy Robinson aren't interested in justice. They're supporting a man who went to prison for nearly collapsing a grooming case, a gang grooming case." Says JP has done one thousand times more for sex abuse survivors than Robinson, Musk or her critics.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 06/01/2025

"...if you're not prepared to stand up as a Tory MP and denounce what's been said about her, then you need to seriously think about why you're in politics in my view."

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

at last Keir Starmer hits back at Musk attacks: “I enjoy the cut and trust of politics, the robust debate that we must have but that has got to be based on facts and truth, not on lies, not on those who are so desperate for attention that they are prepared to debase themselves and their country.”

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 06/01/2025

Starmer: "I think only a few months ago it would have been unthinkable for the things that have been said about Jess Philips without all political parties and the leader of the opposition to call it out in terms...to condemn it..."

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

NEW: Keir Starmer takes a swipe at Elon Musk. "A line has been crossed", he says. “Those that are spreading lies… are not interested in victims, they’re interested in themselves....cheerleading Tommy Robinson... who went to prison for nearly collapsing a gang grooming case."

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 06/01/2025

Starmer on grooming gangs: "Why didn't the last govt implement the Jay report? For ten years we've had reviews and reports. Did they do anything? No they're now tweeting and talking."

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Wes Streeting, "We've had an independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation, not a single one of those recommendations was implemented by the Conservative government" "Labour are determined to implement those recommendations"

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