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UK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 11h
DAILY MIRROR: As bills rise, MPs have approved a £100m-a-year Sovereign Grant for the Royal Family. Former MP Norman Baker calls it a gravy train - and condemns Westminster’s failure to challenge it. - by Norman Baker
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'Spineless MPs have failed to tackle Royal Family's gravy train as your bills go up'
Writing for The Mirror, author and former Lib Dem MP Norman Baker has criticised the government for approving a £100million-a-year Sovereign Grant for the Royal Family
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 11h
"14 years on and Farage is still avoiding James like the plague 😭🤣" wrote one person reposting the video.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12h
The Tories want you to trust them on the economy. But they can't even get the numbers right on a spreadsheet.
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ da
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9h
Average Labour lead now almost 5 points ahead of Reform....
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UK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 14h
DAILY MIRROR: Tory austerity led to a record NHS funding squeeze, sparking maternity scandals, crumbling hospitals and collapsing access to GPs and dentists. - by Martin Bagot
mirror.co.uk
Devastating catalogue of NHS scandals coming directly after Tory's disastrous austerity
Tory austerity saw a record NHS funding squeeze, which sparked maternity scandals, crumbling hospitals, and the collapse in access to GPs and dentists
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don't have a problem with immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, but the problem is, they just don't integrate into our society. Oh. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will reassure Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for left of British politics
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 21h
Anyone notice that Zia Yusuf and Lee Anderson have stopped posting council by-election results? That will be because it’s another week where they’ve not won a single one.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says. Lost for words at the insanity in Trumpistan, a truly sick dictatorship. Like medieval times, executions offered as a public spectacle in a country that claims to be Christian. What next?
bbc.co.uk
Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New model straight out the clone factory just dropped. apple.news/AckoD-5oPRHO...
Blonde women
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19h
Two people have died this week trying to cross the Channel. People’s suffering should not be reduced to a trivial and cruel game. Tell Apple and Google to remove Reform UK's ‘Small Boat Watch’ from their app store.
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Tell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h
Damaged by repeated revelations of seeming grift, Reform is now trying to bypass the media by publishing its own paper, The Reformer, which will be sent for free to 15 million homes. There’ll be free content online engineered to appear high in Google searches.
spectator.com
Revealed: Reform's new media strategy
After a tricky few months for Nigel Farage’s party, Reform UK is fighting back. Senior figures have spent the summer discussing how best to tell their side of the story, amid a wave of negative headli...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 21h
Reform UK are trying to buy the next election, by flooding Britain with hate, fear & lies ... meme via Joshua ABD
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 18h
I refuse to allow the poison of hatred and prejudice to drip into our communities. That’s why I’ve invested £17 million in initiatives to tackle hate crime. This National Hate Crime Awareness Week reminds us why it’s important to build a London where everyone feels safe, welcome, and valued.
london-post.co.uk
Mayor announces record new funding to help Londoners stand up to hate and extremism following rise in antisemitic and anti Muslim hate - London Post
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today announced further funding to tackle hate crime and extremism in all its forms, as reports of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate continue to rise in London and...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 21h
"From Aberdeen to Lambeth, Newcastle-under-Lyme to Holborn & St Pancras, Reform contested five by-elections yesterday. They lost all five… Five contests. Five defeats. That’s eleven out of eleven lost in a fortnight. Reform are not inevitable. Have a great weekend!" via Reform Are Not Your Friends
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 20h
The Daily Telegraph strikes again.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 20h
You know those ‘spot the difference’ puzzles? I’m thinking of launching a ‘spot every racism in this political cartoon’ alternative….
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God @thegodshow.com · 10/10/2026
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19h
The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK
adambienkov.co.uk
Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party
The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 16h
Amen.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 09/10/2026
Black Londoners have shaped our city and helped make London what it is today. I had the privilege of celebrating that contribution at City Hall. Honouring our communities means continuing to break barriers, challenge injustice & build a fairer London. Thank you to Black Londoners, past & present.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 09/10/2026
Let's make it happen. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
standard.co.uk
Sadiq Khan backs international trains stopping at second major London station
Mayor’s intervention raises hopes of services to and from France, and other European countries, stopping in east London
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23h
I mean, yeah, but maybe the party funded by Cryptobillionaires, led by millionaires, and pushing policies, by their own acknowledgement , specifically aimed at making the poorest poorer, should sit this particular argument out?
Tories are for the wealthy not the workers, says Jenrick
Reform’s Treasury spokesman to say Conservatives’ inheritance tax pledge proves party has ‘given up’ on ‘strivers and savers’
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"A lot of them are coming to the UK because they've got family members here, and their family members are here because we went there back in the day."
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A govt livestreaming an execution is not justice. It is a spectacle. Nidal Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people. His crime was monstrous. That is exactly why the state's answer must be better than his: not a broadcast, not a show, not content. 🧵
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a really serious piece of investigative work. Thank god someone is doing it.
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tories prepare to celebrate their resounding third place win at the Battle of St Pancras...
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holborn & St Pancras backed Sagal and voted for Labour's message of hope. This is a fantastic victory that gives us real momentum to build on.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Third Labour gain from Reform in by-elections in the last fortnight.
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The people who say that their main concern is integration of refugees and migrants should be particularly happy today at her success in integrating. But I suspect they are very angry instead. It's almost as if the integration arguments are often made in bad faith.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
More Reform attacks on RNLI, mean more donations to volunteer heroes, faster Reform falls in polls "Tice, Oakshott (his GF) and Farage attacking the charities that save lives.Tice and Oakshot from the safety of their tax haven in Dubai where they avoid paying tax on their earnings" via Barry James
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I note how Christian Nationalists, who think the public execution of Jesus was the most horrific thing humans ever did, are giddy at the prospect of getting to watch a public execution on live streaming—being so “pro-life” and all . . .
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The best news to wake up to ahead of the morning round. Congratulations to Sagal, who has led such a positive campaign. Thank you to the brilliant Labour team and members who made this win possible. Britain is backing Labour’s message of hope. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...
bbc.co.uk
Labour wins Holborn and St Pancras by-election, beating Green leader Zack Polanski - follow live
The contest was triggered when ex-PM Keir Starmer announced last month he would be standing down from the Commons.
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Simon Pease @simonpease.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
From the BBC website, latest news of the startlingly successful “Keminaissance”
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 09/10/2026
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨 NEW: Labour has taken a council seat directly from Reform UK in an overnight by-election in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Labour's Andrew Fox-Hewitt won the Town ward with 431 votes, beating Reform's Adam Griffiths on 249.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“There’s nothing so powerful in 🇬🇧politics as the rightwing unreality machine... It’s a place where Brexit will be cost free, Ed Miliband is a Marxist, Liz Truss was a serious political figure”…and Badenoch is shielded from her own X-fuelled mediocrity. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-strang...
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The Strange Myth of Kemi Badenoch
Why does she have the best press in politics?
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document, The Right Way, overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Another resounding victory for Kemi Badenoch. They’ll have to extend the tapestry now…
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They must be absolutely knackered.
One migrant crossed Channel every six minutes in first week of October
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 09/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn… …seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I wrote this 10 months ago. It proves conclusively that the Tories are economically incompetent and that Labour's economic policies, even in the modern form adopted by all Labour gov'ts since 1997 have always been more beneficial for ordinary working people. andygjburge.substack.com/p/so-you-thi...
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So you think the Tories are economically competent? Think again ...
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For the first time since October 2024, Labour are projected to win an outright majority if an election were held.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Reform not dodgy, says Reform"
Front page of the Daily Mirror on 8 October 2026 - "Reform not dodgy, says Reform"
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
'Remember when Nigel Farage described Andrew Tate as an "important voice" for men?' via Truth Against Hate
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh, my. She's so fkn awful. #Badenoch #CPC26 #IronDome #bbcpm bsky.app/profile/paul...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is a surprisingly big lead for rejoin - if it survived a referendum campaign, the outcome would be 66-34. Not even close.
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