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The Liberal Democrats have some great ideas.
On housing we are the outlier in how far we are willing to go to tackle the housing crisis. 380,000 new homes a year.
On education our plan is to raise standards in schools and help working class students achieve social mobility. 1/3
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This is getting a lot of stick but it's good, actually. It's modest savings but every little helps.
He should go further & abolish all agricultural tariffs, quotas, & most subsidies & pursue a policy of free trade in food.
Healey vows cheaper marmalade and gherkins in pre-Budget package of 'everyday fixes' bbc.in/4zTnQ4K
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BREAKING: A landmark government report is set to reveal the vast scale of antisemitism in English schools and colleges, Sky News can exclusively reveal.
The report, written by former schools inspector Sir David Bell, will on Wednesday set out 27 recommendations to create change.
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🚨 NEW: The Government has accepted all 27 recommendations from the report to end antisemitism in schools and colleges
1. Recognise antisemitism as a distinct form of hatred, not just general racism
2. Strengthen political impartiality guidance, including limits on teachers wearing pro-Palestine badges
3. Establish a national hotline for school leaders dealing with antisemitism
4. Improve teaching about contemporary antisemitism and modern Jewish life
5. Teach pupils to recognise and challenge antisemitic conspiracy theories
6. Include antisemitism explicitly in school safeguarding policies
7. Train teachers to recognise and tackle antisemitism
8. Work with the Home Office and the Prevent programme to help schools identify when antisemitism may be linked to radicalisation
9. Encourage schools to adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism
10. Improve procedures for reporting antisemitic incidents, including signposting
11. Ensure antisemitic bullying and complaints are investigated and acted on consistently
12. Make clear in staff conduct policies that antisemitism is unacceptable
13. Strengthen Holocaust education, including antisemitism's role in the Holocaust, and encourage schools to mark Holocaust Memorial Day
14. Create more opportunities for pupils to engage with Jewish communities, including visits to synagogues
15. Make sure Judaism and modern Jewish life are properly represented in religious education
16. Improve media literacy so pupils can also identify online antisemitism
17. Provide better resources for teaching the Israel-Palestine conflict fairly and sensitively
18. Ensure schools have clear policies for dealing with antisemitism involving external speakers
19. Ensure education unions have clear antisemitism policies
20. Establish a dedicated support service to help schools, colleges and councils deal with antisemitism
21. Use some of the Government's security funding to help Jewish schools and colleges undertake educational visits safely
22. Run a campaign to tackle antisemitic behaviour at transport hubs near Jewish schools and colleges
23. Provide Jewish school and college leaders with mentoring and more security advice
24. Strengthen accountability for schools that fail to deal properly with antisemitism
25. Enable Ofsted and the Independent Schools Inspectorate to assess how schools tackle antisemitism
26. Make local councils identify local patterns of antisemitism and help schools respond
27. Share effective practice and guidance between schools and colleges
4 hours! This has nothing on a @nick_dacosta FCC meeting.
Lib Dem leadership showdown:
- 4-hours has been carved out in MPs' diaries for their meeting at 5pm today, to accommodate requests from more than 40 people to speak (and breaks in proceedings for votes). Roz Savage, as chair of the parliamentary party, will chair the meeting.
- So far, I've counted 21 MPs who've explicitly - or at least appeared - to back Ed Davey. That leaves a *lot* still undeclared. The rebels need 18 (or 25% of MPs) to force a no-confidence vote.
- Davey's critics are digging in - and hoping his performance tonight swings sceptics in their favour. They say even if he survives tonight, it's a matter of "when, not if" he goes.
- Davey's allies accuse the rebels of "trying to create chaos at a pivotal moment, with the timing of the next general election up in the air". He has spoken to some MPs to encourage them to speak in support of him tonight.
- Some MPs privately think Davey should go, but are divided over who should replace him - further splintering the rebels.
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Why Supporting Ukraine Is An Investment In Freedom, Not Charity | Daily Wire (9/5/26) dailywire.com/news/mike-penc…
A show of how much of an underperformance this was:
Green/Andrew Feinstein vote in 2024 was: 11442.
Polanski managed 8928 votes.
He couldn’t even turn out the Feinstein/Green 2024 vote.
Green surge is over.
How bad does the Holborn & St Pancras by-election have to go for #ZackPolanski to resign as Green Party leader?
Less than 30%?
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When I saw the Nova music festival site, the impact of October 7th hit home. Three years on, the violence continues, and we have seen an appalling rise in antisemitism here and around the world. We must stand with the Jewish community, stamp out antisemitism, and work for peace.
The idea that Reform can be trusted to mark their own homework is a joke.
EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK did not break any laws when senior party figures were recorded by undercover journalists discussing a £500,000 gift from a foreign donor, an internal investigation has concluded.
A 27-page report, commissioned by Reform, after a Channel 4 investigation into funding also cleared the party of wrongdoing over the funding of three opinion polls.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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The Green Party motion stokes anti-Jewish hatred and does nothing to combat antisemitism or islamaphobia.
Turning to the extremes is no way to bring people together or help people feel safer.
We stand with our British Jewish friends and neighbours.
The EHRC rightly intervened with Labour.
They should be willing to do the same now.
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Massive congratulations to our victorious candidate Julie Calder!
Another massive win for Liberal Democrats in the Highlands, and this time in the ward represented by the SNP leader of the council🔶🔶🔶
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Ive been asked a few times where I am on the triple lock question. I'm on the same page as @tomgordonLD for similar reasons. It's time for a grown up conversation about intergeneratonal fairness. The triple lock has tobe questioned
I listened to Ed Davey on the @BBCr4today this morning, and frankly, I think he missed the point.
The idea that we're keeping the triple lock to help millennials is at best for the birds, and at worst downright insulting. I say that as a millennial.
The case for the triple lock is a worthy one - stopping pensioner poverty. I want that as much as anyone. But pensioners are now less likely to be in poverty than children or working age adults.
We talk about fairness, yet our answer is to give the same increase to every pensioner, treating the one choosing between heating and eating exactly the same as the one with millions in the bank. I can see no moral or fiscal case for above inflation rises for millionaires.
That money should go where it's needed most - to everyone in poverty, not just one group. It could help fund free personal care, a policy that would disproportionately benefit older people.
Ed is right that we shouldn't pit one generation against another. But intergenerational inequality is already one of the defining injustices of our time, and this would further entrench it. Worse, it gaslights an entire generation into believing it's for our benefit.
Telling millennials we're keeping the triple lock to help us in 30 years' time is nonsense. We're on course to be the first generation worse off than our parents. We're locked out of the housing market, paying higher taxes, repaying student loans that never seem to shrink, and putting off having children because of the cost of living.
I joined this party because I care about fairness and tackling inequality, and that has to include inequality between generations.
This line, and this decision, fails on both counts. Ed needs to think again.
Absolutely
I listened to Ed Davey on the @BBCr4today this morning, and frankly, I think he missed the point.
The idea that we're keeping the triple lock to help millennials is at best for the birds, and at worst downright insulting. I say that as a millennial.
The case for the triple lock is a worthy one - stopping pensioner poverty. I want that as much as anyone. But pensioners are now less likely to be in poverty than children or working age adults.
We talk about fairness, yet our answer is to give the same increase to every pensioner, treating the one choosing between heating and eating exactly the same as the one with millions in the bank. I can see no moral or fiscal case for above inflation rises for millionaires.
That money should go where it's needed most - to everyone in poverty, not just one group. It could help fund free personal care, a policy that would disproportionately benefit older people.
Ed is right that we shouldn't pit one generation against another. But intergenerational inequality is already one of the defining injustices of our time, and this would further entrench it. Worse, it gaslights an entire generation into believing it's for our benefit.
Telling millennials we're keeping the triple lock to help us in 30 years' time is nonsense. We're on course to be the first generation worse off than our parents. We're locked out of the housing market, paying higher taxes, repaying student loans that never seem to shrink, and putting off having children because of the cost of living.
I joined this party because I care about fairness and tackling inequality, and that has to include inequality between generations.
This line, and this decision, fails on both counts. Ed needs to think again.
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Excited to share I'm running for Federal Chair of the @YoungLiberalsUK
Hoping to build an organisation that inspires those from all backgrounds, advocates for policy that will change young lives, and elects the people who will deliver it.
youngliberals.uk/internal-el…
ALT Plain text manifesto can be found at the link in the post.
23% of pensioners are millionaires.
Why is the Government going after pensioners?
It's time to tax the rich.
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Pensioners have the highest median household wealth of any age group per ONS data and the lowest UK poverty rate at 16%. The policy expands Winter Fuel Payments to most pensioners but recovers the small amount automatically via tax from those with incomes over £35,000.
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Andy Burnham is really girl mathing his way through government isn't it?
His triple-lock > social care plan is basically 'If I make lunch this week and don't go to Pret those Olivia Rodrigo tickets are basically free!' for a middle-aged socialist
Of course we should be.
Labour are obsessed with balancing the books on the back of working people rather than do meaningful welfare reform, tackling the triple lock or allow mass housebuilding which will actually reduce the size of the state.
Streeting: Public "Shouldn't Be Scared" of Tax Rises for Burnham's Social Care order-order.com/2026/09/28/s…
