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🚨 Labour MP: EU freedom of movement debate risks undermining voter trust
Melanie Onn, the MP for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes, argues:
- “Just as the wounds of Brexit begin to heal, there is a risk of pulling out the staples prematurely.”
- “Freedom of movement was one of the defining issues” of the Brexit referendum
- “Reopening freedom of movement risks reigniting divisions when the country desperately needs a more constructive conversation”
- “The perception that promises made at elections can subsequently be revisited by a political establishment removed from the realities of working communities has left lasting scars.”
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politics.co.uk/2026/10/melan…
🚨 ‘We stand taller in the world’: Nigel Farage says Brexit has been a ‘success’
Asked by @bbcnickrobinson whether he saw Brexit “objectively as a success”, Farage replied: “Yes, I do.”
A different message from 2023, when he said: “Brexit has failed”
politics.co.uk/2026/10/we-st…
🚨 Labour MP: EU freedom of movement debate risks undermining voter trust
Melanie Onn, the MP for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes, argues:
- “Just as the wounds of Brexit begin to heal, there is a risk of pulling out the staples prematurely.”
- “Freedom of movement was one of the defining issues” of the Brexit referendum
- “Reopening freedom of movement risks reigniting divisions when the country desperately needs a more constructive conversation”
- “The perception that promises made at elections can subsequently be revisited by a political establishment removed from the realities of working communities has left lasting scars.”
@Politics_co_uk
politics.co.uk/2026/10/melan…
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“The perception that promises can subsequently be revisited by a political establishment removed from the realities of working communities has left lasting scars”, writes @UKLabour MP @melanie_onn
🗣️ EU free movement debate risks undermining voter trust
politics.co.uk/2026/10/melan…
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“Alongside fellow MPs, I have received reports of applications being refused because of convictions linked to the 2019-2020 pro-democracy protests”, writes @Bobby_Dean
🗣️ Britain cannot shut the door on Hongkongers persecuted for defending democracy
politics.co.uk/2026/10/brita…
🚨 Shabana Mahmood appears to dispute Brexit’s role in small boats crisis
The home secretary told MPs and @mpmwilko:
- EU asylum pact is not “the silver bullet”
- “Everyone wants to remove people from their countries, but nobody actually wants to receive them”
- “In the last five years of [Dublin agreement], we did not deport as many people as we managed to do under the agreement that we had with France”
- Hours earlier, Andy Burnham said the crisis arose because “we can’t return people... in the same way that we used to be able to.”
- In February 2026, Mahmood told @CommonsHomeAffs: “Is Brexit responsible for the boats? I do not think that is true.”
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politics.co.uk/2026/10/shaba…
#Politicle: 26/10/2026
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#Onthisday 2021. Standards committee accuses Owen Paterson of “egregious” lobbying breaches
The committee recommended a 30-day suspension, enough to trigger a recall petition. But Boris Johnson’s government whipped Tory MPs to delay and overhaul the standards system instead. Facing a furious backlash, the government U-turned the next day. Paterson resigned as an MP
Lib Dem @HelenMorganMP won the subsequent North Shropshire by-election, overturning a Tory majority of almost 23,000. The saga badly weakened Johnson’s government
politics.co.uk/history/stand…
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“Continuity of care is one of the rare reforms that is better for patients and better for doctors, who overwhelmingly tell us they find it more rewarding”, writes @Jeremy_Hunt
🗣️ Bring back the family doctor and give every patient their own GP
politics.co.uk/2026/10/jerem…
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#Politicle: 25/10/2026
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#Politicle: 25/10/2026
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Burnham’s micro-policy blitz is designed to address the little dysfunctions that fuel public disillusionment
On the political value of “everyday fixes”:
politics.co.uk/2026/10/burnh…
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#Onthisday 1951. Winston Churchill returns to power after first general election victory
The Conservatives won a majority of 17, despite Labour polling 230,000 more votes. It marked Churchill’s first general election win as party leader, returning him to power aged 76
Attlee’s Labour government, a divided and exhausted force, went to the county just one year after securing a majority of five at the 1950 election
The Conservatives ran a bullish, efficient campaign, emphasising Churchill’s experience and a pledge to build 300,000 houses per year. Labour accused Churchill of being a warmonger over his stance on the Cold War
Churchill was the oldest PM to take the office since Gladstone. Roy Jenkins famously described him as “gloriously unfit for office”
politics.co.uk/history/churc…
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Is Badenoch wise to ridicule Burnham’s ‘small fixes’? Probably not, concludes @Josh_Self_ in this interesting piece…
politics.co.uk/2026/10/burnh…
#Politicle: 24/10/2026
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#Onthisday 2022. Rishi Sunak declared Conservative leader after Liz Truss' resignation
The expedited contest was dominated by a possible Boris Johnson comeback. He flew back from a holiday in the Dominican Republic, but ultimately withdrew, saying he couldn't govern without a “united party”
Penny Mordaunt failed to reach 100 backers and pulled out two minutes before the deadline, leaving Sunak unopposed
Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 committee, later confirmed Johnson had secured enough support (100 MPs) to force a membership ballot
politics.co.uk/history/rishi…
