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If you aren't working why can't you look after your own children? Why should working parents pay even higher taxes to fund free childcare for people on benefits?
Labour are not the party of work, they are the party of welfare.
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Gentrification discourse feels a decade out of date. In large parts of the country the opposite is happening. Family streets are becoming HMO havens, mini-marts and vape shops are everywhere. Tags and e-scooters the visual shorthand for once handsome towns & cities.
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What about spending more time in the South West or Wales or coastal towns or the Midlands or the deprived parts of London? The North V South thing is so simplistic.
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham's Chancellor will have to spend part of their working week in the North to "change their perspective"
[@Telegraph]
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Very scary situation for Muslims in Scotland - my thoughts and prayers are with those that are injured and their families.
Those that use violence and extremism, whoever they are, can never be allowed to succeed.
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Another absurd intervention by Burnham. The triple lock should never have been in Labour’s manifesto and ought to be broken. And if pensioners receive taxable income in excess of the personal allowance, they should of course pay tax on it. Why load the burden on younger people?
Andy Burnham: I’ll keep the triple lock, and give pensioners a tax cut trib.al/YC1E4F4
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Looks like you never understood Islam properly but love to sit in judgement on other Muslims. If you had your way, Muslims would have no representation whatsoever in politics and become even more marginalised and discriminated against. Makes me wonder whose side you are on.
"Sadiq Khan is mayor of London, not Kabul. His job is to serve all communities, not just Muslims."
I've had this thrown at me in so many replies so let me address it.
For me, and for the majority of British Muslims, Islam comes first. I know Brits will find that hard to fathom because they don't take religion seriously, but we do.
So if Islam comes first that means Islamic rules come first. And Islamic rules dictate that Muslims cannot partake in or promote LGBTQ lifestyles, alcohol and nightclubbing, all of which Sadiq Khan promoted yesterday fresh off the plane from Hajj.
Doing this directly contravenes Islamic law and endangers your relationship with God and your afterlife.
Now I agree that Sadiq Khan was elected to serve all Londoners and not just Muslims. And that is exactly why I have always been against Muslims taking high political office in the West. You will be constantly pressured to compromise your Islam and sometimes that pressure will become unbearable, so it's simply not worth it if you're a believing and practising Muslim.
If we need political allies in high places it's much better to have sympathetic non Muslim allies who we don't have to hold to an Islamic standard.
So ultimately it comes down to priorities. I believe that no Muslim should publicly partake in or promote anything that goes against Islam. What they do in their private lives is none of my business, but when they transgress in the public sphere we have the right to hold them to an Islamic standard according to what Allah has revealed.
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Hi Richard this is you last week with Phil Tierney who among other things has said Muslims like me shouldn’t hold public office and all mosques should be closed.
Cllr Gethen turned up to one of my constituency events even though she isn’t a constituent and clearly was there to cause trouble. I had a private conversation with her and challenged her on her support and endorsement for Tierney. In fact I think I said “you need to sort the racism in your ranks.”
She doubled down on her support for Tierney and then left.
I had a number of SEND events that day with my constituents and will continue to do so in the future.
I will go toe to toe with any Reform politician and will not stop standing up for parents and children with SEND and I won’t shy away from standing up to racism.
Perhaps now, Richard, you can find your voice and finally condemn the racism by Tierney … although given your performance on Kuenssberg I won’t hold my breath
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This is Tice with Phil Tierney last week. Tierney was elected on Friday.
Reform in Solihull cheered when he was elected despite him being under investigation for saying all mosques should be closed, Muslims shouldn’t hold public office, being supportive of Tommy Robinson and sharing Britain First posts.
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Modern Britain in a nutshell as a lanyarded crony tries to talk down a long term public servant who’s trying to say goodbye with dignity and then scrolls through her phone when he does so.
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The @ukhomeoffice is a joke & so are all those who called for Kanye west to be cancelled for antisemitism & not @ValentinaForUSA for Islamophobia. You are all a disgrace, don’t complain about “two-tier” anything again, either Kanye & Valentina should be allowed in or both banned.
VISA APPROVED. See you on May 16th in England🏴
@Keir_Starmer @ShabanaMahmood @ukhomeoffice you’re only good at protecting the muslim rape gangs. Try to arrest me & see what happens.
England belongs to the English. Not the mohameds.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The home office have now barred her from entering the UK.
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The negotiator of the ceasefire, Shehbaz Sharif, clearly says here in his announcement of the peace agreement that it includes Lebanon. Netanyahu went out of his way today to destroy the ceasefire by launching an unprecedented assault on Tyre & Beirut, killing at 254+ innocent civilians. Yet again, Israel drags the US & the wider region towards conflict & away from peace.
With the greatest humility, I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.
I warmly welcome the sagacious gesture and extend deepest gratitude to the leadership of both the countries and invite their delegations to Islamabad on Friday, 10th April 2026, to further negotiate for a conclusive agreement to settle all disputes.
Both parties have displayed remarkable wisdom and understanding and have remained constructively engaged in furthering the cause of peace and stability. We earnestly hope, that the ‘Islamabad Talks’ succeed in achieving sustainable peace and wish to share more good news in coming days!
@realDonaldTrump
@JDVance
@SecRubio
@SteveWitkoff
@SEPeaceMissions
@drpezeshkian
@mb_ghalibaf
@araghchi
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Back in 2017 we said we’d get this done. Plenty doubted it.
But once the funding was secured in 2021, it was never in doubt.
Good to see it finally delivered, thanks to everyone who played a part to bring trains back to the Camp Hill line after more than 80 years.
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It was not just Trump who revealed himself yesterday. The total silence from @Keir_Starmer and his apology for a cabinet in the face of Trump's genocidal threat to Iran, even as they took immediate concrete action to ban Kanye West/Ye, reveals deep and profoundly troubling double standards. As we saw repeatedly with Gaza, the mass slaughter of Muslims really doesn't bother to our government; now even the threat of complete civilisational erasure is not worth a passing comment. Starmer just shrugged and let the B-52s take off with all their bombs primed and ready to drop on civilian targets. A total and irredeemable disgrace.
You come to the reluctant and sad conclusion that even a threat to wipe out a civilisation by an unhinged US President is still not enough to elicit any serious push back from the Prime Minister or his Cabinet. What have we become? theguardian.com/world/2026/a…
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Entirely misses the point that it's a death penalty that only applies to one ethnicity, the Palestinians, a people who are illegally occupied, living under military rule and subject to dispossession, constant violence and ethnic cleansing
My statement with France, Germany and Italy on our united opposition to Israel’s death penalty law.
The death penalty is wrong and we oppose it around the world.
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Erm, women cannot be clerics in my Church.
None of this makes sense #32.
“When public prayer is at odds with our long-standing philosophy that women are not second-class citizens...”
Shadow Communities Secretary James Cleverly says we “need to discuss” the public prayer which occurred at an open iftar event in London's Trafalgar Square.
#BBCLauraK
Sad to see @JamesCleverly, once the future of a progressive Conservative Party, choosing to peddle the ludicrous claims that segregated prayer is somehow about Muslim women being ‘second class citizens’. Looking physically uncomfortable trying to spout absolute rubbish #bbclaurak
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Clearly you and @mehdirhasan are either clueless or playing useful idiots for the Iranian regime. Expecting a great negotiator like @POTUS—who thrives on unpredictability—to telegraph strategy is absurd. Tweet less—you’re making yourself look like a twat. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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This guy did it. Not the other fella.
How far we’ve allowed this party to fall… Astonishing ignorance. For centuries religions of all kinds participate in segregated forms of worship. To spin this as an issue of minority women being pushed aside is absurd and plain stupid. What a mess.
Kemi Badenoch disaster of an interview criticising the Ramadan Tent Project's Iftar at Trafalgar Square is something to behold 😅
@RamadanTent did it without objection under 4 Conservative PMs:
2015 under David Cameron
2019 under Theresa May
2022 under Boris Johnson
2024 under Rishi Sunak
Gary Gibbon, "What is your objection to the Muslim prayer that happened in Trafalgar square"
Kemi Badenoch, "As a woman from an ethnic minority background, I do not like to see women shoved to the side, segregated, in an event that is not welcoming to others"
"Trafalgar square is a public space which we use for inclusive events"
Gary Gibbon, "But the event was welcoming. It was inclusive. It was inviting other people to come and see what the moment was like"
*Badenoch's eye lashes flash faster than a butterfly chasing nectar*
Kemi Badenoch, "A segregated event like that, I do not think the Mayor should be party political"
Gary Gibbon, "So gender segregation is your objection?"
Kemi Badenoch, "Yes, but more than that"
Gary Gibbon, "But lots of religions have gender segregation"
Kemi Badenoch, "Not in public spaces. This is not about freedom of religion"
Gary Gibbon, "The Ramadan Tent project organised events at the Victoria & Albert museum, in front of the Royal Albert Hall, under Conservative administrations"
"They've been developing this public way of showing their faith and inviting people to come and observe it"
Kemi Badenoch, "Without knowing the details of those events, I'm not making a comment"
"I'm taking a specific event about that type of mass prayer, segregating women in the middle of Trafalgar square"
"We believe in religious freedom, that doesn't mean any religious practice in every single religion"
"Sometimes the authorities need to set guard rails and say actually this is too much"