State Pension spending accounts for nearly half of the projected increase in social security spending by 2029-30.
It is not fiscally sustainable for the State Pension to rise forever by more than the earnings of a typical worker.
Read more in our latest report on the Triple Lock➡️ https://t.co/xtrnlyasiE
BREAKING - @zarahsultana exercises Parliamentary Privilege to expose the unjust nature of the Filton 24 re-trial.
UK press has been court ordered not to publish these details.
“If convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that”
🚨 REFORM’S RACISM PROBLEM RETURNS 🚨
Remember the Reform UK councillor who said Nigerians should be “melted down to fill potholes”?
When the backlash hit, Reform UK sacked him. They wanted everyone to believe they were taking a stand.
Fast forward a few weeks… and Nigel Farage has quietly welcomed him back into the party.
Think about that.
A man makes a disgusting remark, gets removed when the heat is on, and then gets reinstated once the headlines die down.
Farage is literally doing whatever he wants in plain sight, and his supporters keep pretending not to notice.
Actions speak louder than press releases.
https://t.co/xMqRywBThk
"There's no point me having a glamorous, comfortable retirement if the country that I bequeath to my children is at great military risk"
General Sir Richard Barrons says he would "release the triple lock in order to put more money back into things like defence."
#Newsnight
Really really odd answer. Nigel Farage suggests in a couple of years there might be someone better to be PM. That’s quite possibly before the next election.
Ant Middleton is an unrepentant racist who doesn’t think I should be allowed to serve in Government because of my heritage, despite having been born here. He doesn’t think Zia Yusuf should be allowed to either.
He’s also a violent thug who served a prison sentence after being convicted of assaulting two police officers.
Hardly a surprise then to see Rob Kenyon endorsed by one of his “heroes” in Makerfield, so desperate are Reform to stop haemorrhaging support to Restore Britain.
This is bullshit.
What I ACTUALLY said is we "cannot have another left-wing government. But I'm afraid that Reform has quite a lot of left-wing ideas. They want more benefits. They want nationalisation”
I then said.
On "deals, non-aggression pacts and so on....I'm just saying no. It's just no, no, no, no, no, no, no."
الانتقال من خطاب "تدمير إيران" إلى "اتفاق على الطاولة" أمريكياً لم يأتِ من فراغ.
الشروط الإيرانية التي تم الاتفاق عليها مبدئياً في السابق لم تتح لترامب الخروج بصورة نصر، لذلك وبعد الاتفاق المبدئي، تراجع عنها وأرسل تعديلاته إلى طهران عبر الوسطاء.
ولم تردَّ عليه إيران، بل أبقته في حالة تريُّث وانتظار طيلة الأيام الماضية، بل وأظهرت له الجهوزية لاستئناف الحرب بضرب إسرائيل أولاً وإسقاط الأباجي ثانياً—لتقول له في إشاراتها: إنك لا تستطيع تغيير واقع فشلك العسكري بالمراوحة.
لذلك، حاول الضغط عليها عسكرياً بالتزامن مع وجود الوسطاء في طهران، فردت عليه طهران في ليلتَي التصعيد بضرب ضعف الأهداف التي ضربها في إيران. وبهذا فقد الأمل في حمل طهران على القبول بما يريد.
أما الإعلان عن اتفاق بعد كل ذلك، فهو إعلان عن التراجع إلى ما اتُّفِق عليه سابقاً، وهو ترجمة دبلوماسية لفشله العسكري قبل كل شيء. إن وُقِّع الاتفاق الإطاري بالفعل—فنحن إزاء بداية حقبة جديدة في إيران والمنطقة. وهذا يُخيف البعض ويُفرح آخرين في المنطقة، إذ يُبدي الخاسر والرابح بوضوح. وللحديث تتمّة في الأيام القادمة.
Let's clear some of this @hmtreasury confusion up for them.
Welfare budget is 330bn. Over 4 years that's 1.4trn.
Defence are asking for an 'additional' 28bn *over 4 years* (to cover agreed plans).
The Treasury are not run by serious people if they can't find 28 out of 1,400...