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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 9h
Starting to hope this world is actually an AI simulation and it gets turned off soon.
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 9h
Badenoch on list found in home of Widdecombe suspect trib.al/o88g96Y
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Badenoch on list found in home of Widdecombe suspect
Tory leader's name among more than 100 high-profile figures
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 17h
"Today, selling a £1m house & moving to a £400,000 flat won’t change your children’s IHT bill. The estate is the same size. Under the [Tory] proposal...the £600,000 you released is fully subject to IHT." "Your house move cost your heirs £240,000. People [will] respond to an incentive this large."
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Tory IHT cut could cost £11bn - almost twice the advertised price
Our modelling suggests Badenoch’s inheritance tax cut could cost £7.7bn-£10.9bn a year and shift £60bn-£110bn from savings and investments into housing.
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 12h
“Daniel Greenberg, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, is expected to send his findings to the Commons Committee of Standards within days after Parliament returns next week, according to sources close to the inquiry.” archive.ph/2026.10.08-1...
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our full analysis of the new Conservative policy will be out tomorrow. If you want to be the first to read it, you can join the 1% and subscribe to our free newsletter here. buff.ly/DZhmgt2
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
All of this is from our inheritance tax model, which we published last month, showing that 20% of pensioner households have assets that potentially bring them within the tax: buff.ly/nS0z6rG
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
3. And how does the wider economic benefit of this tax cut compare with other potential tax cuts costing the same?
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
2. Where is the benefit concentrated?
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We'll have a full analysis of the Conservatives' proposed inheritance tax cuts tomorrow. But, for now, three charts. 1. Who would benefit from the cuts?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 9h
Utter barbarism. Like watching the reverse evolution of man into beast.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 13h
I actually quite like Kemi Badenoch. But she is subject to a myth she doesn't deserve: a Tory recovery which just doesn't exist. Despite endless positive coverage, the Tories are still going backwards. And they deserve to be. Piece from me. 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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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 13h
Brutal thread
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 19h
There are perverse incentives, and then there's just basic economic illiteracy
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11h
I've never actually watched the Traitors before. The combination of intense earnestness and insane campness is really quite extraordinary.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15h
this is absolutely nuts: "the UK’s pension “triple lock” was costed at just £50mn when politicians first settled on a measure that has gone on to cost 300 times as much, according to the top adviser on economic strategy at the time" www.ft.com/content/efdc...
ft.com
UK pension ‘triple lock’ was first costed at just £50mn, says ex-government adviser
Guarantee on value of state pension was a demand of Liberal Democrats in negotiations to form coalition with Tories after 2010 election
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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pete Hegseth trails behind the crowd while running with troops in San Diego
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 19h
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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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tommy Robinson will go on trial on October 19th on charges of harassment of journalists, through X posts, Direct Messages and a phone call. (He is telling X followers he expects to get 10 years; a fundraising drive is doubtless imminent) news.sky.com/story/tommy-...
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Tommy Robinson appears in court over alleged harassment of two journalists
Robinson is charged with two counts of harassment causing fear of violence to two MailOnline reporters through his X account between 5 and 7 August 2024.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14h
NEW YOUGOV POLL 🚨 52% of people would vote to rejoin the EU, only 27% want to stay outside
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h
The Kensington Treaty: this includes reducing barriers to educational trips and more cultural exchange efforts between the UK and Germany www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h
Andy Burnham in Berlin with Chancellor Merz. The governments formally ratified the Kensington Treaty, negotiated in 2025, a bilateral friendship and cooperation treaty between the UK and Germany
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19h
“From today you'll be able to see petrol and diesel prices on Google Maps, compare nearby stations and find the cheapest option before you fill up” Andy Burnham
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h
Hours later, Trump posts that the US has just had “productive talks” with Iran and announced the US will not attack Iran before the midterms.
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 21h
Reform's barrister, who cleared the party and aides of wrongdoing alleged in an undercover investigation into foreign donations, was a UKIP member for years and has a longstanding association with Farage.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 18h
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16h
There are now 120 compliant plug-in solar kits being sold in Britain. Really good news for competition and prices coming down. Only a matter of time before solar panels are being sold in the Lidl/Aldi aisles of dreams... (via www.pluginsolarregister.co.uk)
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 16h
“Not Guilty!” Read my latest entry in ‘Nigel’s Notebook’ to find out all about the completely objective and not at all biased internal inquiry into our total innocence. parodypm.substack.com/p/we-find-ou...
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17h
Stealing phones in London is getting far harder. Record City Hall funding is helping the Met crackdown on the £50m-a-year trade in stolen phones and tackle all involved – from the street robbers, to the middlemen who unlock devices and sell them on.
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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 17h
"Underground transgender mafia" - where do they hangout?
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 23h
it transpires that billionaire David Reuben moved his tax residence to Monaco under the Tories www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19h
As I say the domestic politics of this are going to become more and more obvious.... samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...
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The route back into the EU
Back in 2022 I wrote about the long-term prospects for undoing Brexit and made two predictions.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 20h
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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Brian @brianscant.bsky.social · 21h
The barrister who cleared Jukes and Orr is Reform’s own barrister, Adam Richardson. Investigations, internal or otherwise, are more credible if the lawyer isn’t the company’s own lawyer! For anyone interested in Richardson, a failed UKIP candidate, read this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 19h
I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 20h
Solar panels are always the giveaway that any accusations of "overcapacity" are basically "we resent China winning" since the price keeps coming down even though China dominates the market, and that is changing the world - for good. ourworldindata.org/grapher/sola... ustr.gov/sites/defaul...
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Solar photovoltaic panel prices
Average price of solar modules, expressed in US dollars per watt, adjusted for inflation.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 23h
The Met’s biggest crackdown of its kind is working: phone theft in London is at its lowest level in four years. We're catching thieves, dismantling criminal networks and making it harder to profit from stolen phones. www.lbc.co.uk/article/phon...
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Phone thieves are losing their grip on London. Now we can finish the job, writes Sir Sadiq Khan | LBC
We are now winning the war on this horrible crime
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h
Sign me up for the Official Trump Administration Enemies List. It’s AI.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h
The chances of Reform taking aggressive legal action (rather than briefing a threat to do so to pitch for media gullibility) would seem to be v slim, given what would come out in the court
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 17h
This does in fact seem obvious to everyone apart from the people who came up with the policy.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 16h
“It would be a seismic shock in American politics, signifying that the high watermark of Trumpism is now in retreat.” Donald Trump has made his third visit to Texas in four weeks - is he starting to panic that the ruby red state will be taken by the Democrats in the midterms?
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 16h
Of course, the fiscal incontinence problem is on top of the “it’s a stupid policy that would stuff up the housing market” one
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 16h
Tories totally unfunded tax cut for the wealthiest latest: they’ve hugely underestimated the cost of their policy and therefore the borrowing splurge their plans would cause. This is absolutely mad approach to economic policy making - totally giving up on fiscal credibility
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 16h
Magic beans
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Did I miss how she said she was going to pay for the inheritance tax cut?
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20h
Email today telling me I am not “ethnically English”, and instead of reacting in anger or with insults when I’d respond with a picture of my parents it’s like the “are these cows small or far away?” scene.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20h
Modern racism is fascinatingly stupid, in that in the 90s and 2000s, there were all sorts of racist things people would say about mixed race people but they weren’t confused and perplexed by your existence.
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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 18h
In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 20h
Parts of Southeast Asia have been blanketed in choking haze as Indonesia battles one of its worst wildfire seasons in years.
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Haze Blankets Malaysian Capital as State Leader Calls for Action
Malaysia’s prime minister has contacted Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto about efforts to tackle the thick smog that has choked Kuala Lumpur and other parts of the country as weeks of devastating wildfires consume swathes of the neighboring archipelago.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Best thing I read on the Tories this week? This counter to the emerging common wisdom by @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk
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Badenoch has fallen into the trap that locks parties out of power
Her Tory party is restating all the old ideas voters have rejected, but harder and louder
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