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Look at all those activists dressed as placards...
It seems to have been a struggle to find volunteers to fill the room for Reform UK’s pre-Budget announcement today. Watch now on @GBNEWS.
Just a bit...
We have a Prime Minister who cannot go in front of a camera without putting his foot in his mouth.
Another enormously costly promise from a Prime Minister with no plan for delivery.
We all want to see homelessness tackled. But simply throwing money at the problem is not a solution.
‘That’s £190,000 per person…’
‘We could buy them all a house!”
@NickFerrariLBC runs the numbers on the government's pledge to end rough sleeping by Christmas.
Wes Streeting caved in to the trade unions as Health Seretary.
This is the result: despite taxpayer-funded pay rises, the strikes are continuing.
Only the Conservatives will ban doctors' strikes and put patients and taxpayers first.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c69w…
❗John Healey resigned as Defence Secretary because Keir Starmer wouldn't fund defence with 3% of GDP. Now Healey is Chancellor, and he is kicking the can down the road just like Starmer did.
❌ Andy Burnham and his Cabinet are putting social security before national security. They are surrendering to their backbenchers and refusing to cut welfare to fund defence.
🔵Only Conservatives have the plan to get to 3% by 2030, recruit 20,000 more soldiers and protect our country with the Britannia Shield.
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Angela Rayner can’t name a single pound of spending that Labour will cut - not one! 🤯
We are £3 trillion in debt, borrowing more just to pay the interest.
Get a grip.
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This is yet another example of Burnham’s foot in mouth syndrome. He hasn’t thought this through or the implications.
Most people who voted for Brexit did so because they didn’t want free movement. Too many politicians have failed to understand the significance and impact of immigration on communities.
We have had more than enough experience of what happens when politicians (including previous Conservative governments) promise control but fail to deliver it. The answer is to learn from those mistakes, not reopen free movement.
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham has opened the door to Britain readopting the European Union’s free movement rules, arguing that an “honest discussion” is needed, reports @benrileysmith
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From Yorkshire to Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire to Worcestershire, Conservatives won ALL of last night’s council by-elections in England 💙
Three gains and a hold, beating Labour, the Greens and Reform:
🌳 Cllr Amanda Carter, Calverley & Farsley, Leeds. GAIN from Labour
🌳 Cllr Rosemary Bolton, Hertford Kingsmead, East Hertfordshire. GAIN from Green
🌳 Cllr Ben Lavender, Grantham St Wulfram’s, South Kesteven. GAIN from Independent
🌳 Cllr Tony Miller, Hartlebury, Wychavon. HOLD
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🚨 John Healey has admitted that businesses have been under 'a lot of pressure' because of Labour's Unemployment Act, higher taxes and endless red tape.
Who does he think is responsible?!
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It’s time for @AndyBurnham to do the right thing, and Axe the Family Farm Tax. 🚜
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Simply astonishing🤯
Lucy Powell said the pay rise was fully funded. The National Education Union celebrated it despite warnings from many head teachers and the Conservatives that this wasn’t true.
Now we find out SEND staff are being cut to fund the pay rise. Total chaos from Lucy Powell and it’s our must vulnerable children who are suffering.
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Iran's Foreign Minister is getting a platform in Britain that his people are killed for in Iran.
He claims he wants “to give diplomacy another chance” and doesn't want escalation, but he is threatening our people and his IRGC bosses are murdering thousands across the Middle East, including recently civilians in Riyadh and Yemen.
No wonder @FT switched off the comments. His lies don't stand up to scrutiny.
Opinion: While Iran is firmly committed to seeking a dignified peaceful resolution to the conflict, we are also fully prepared to defend ourselves, writes Abbas Araghchi, the country's foreign minister ft.trib.al/NqUhFmq
ALT Abbas Araghchi speaks into a microphone at a press conference, seated at a table with a glass and water bottle.
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Approving Jackdaw is the right first step, but now the Government needs to go further.
End their ban on new licences, scrap the windfall tax, approve Rosebank, secure our energy, and back British jobs.
The Prime Minister dodges ANOTHER question on the Man City fiasco.... this time from @JeromeMayhew
"Next week at the Budget the Prime Minister has a choice.
"Cut spending. Cut the deficit. Cut tax. That is the Conservative plan. A plan that even his former economic adviser Andy Haldane says is the better way.
"So will he follow that plan or will he bottle it, just like Keir Starmer did?"
@KemiBadenoch #PMQs
"This morning inflation rose to 3.5%, the third rise in a row.
"Families are paying higher bills and more for their weekly shop and it's leading to higher mortgage rates.
"Does the Prime Minister accept that his failure to control borrowing is contributing to higher inflation?"
@KemiBadenoch #PMQs