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[Chris Hooper #LibDems 🔶 @ChrisLDWRuislip]

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[Chris Hooper #LibDems 🔶 @ChrisLDWRuislip]

Check out European Movement. I just joined. https://t.co/UUpP83QtiD

[Chris Hooper #LibDems 🔶 @ChrisLDWRuislip]

Enough is enough. The House of Lords is a rolling scandal - sign @electoralreform's call to demand change. It takes 30 seconds. https://t.co/fnKBy4p0Iy

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

If you’re 18…

Or approaching 18

Your country needs you to do one thing

…and it isn’t National Service.

[Chris Hooper #LibDems 🔶 @ChrisLDWRuislip]

@IanDunt So they'd fine parents if their adult children don't want to be conscripted to get shot at in the event of a conflict? They are absolutely bonkers.

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

The logic of this is that parents can be fined for something their grown-up children do (or don’t do) - which would be an extraordinary new legal principle

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Election so far this morning:

* Minister refuses to rule out fining parents if their children decline to take part in Conservative's new national service scheme

* Labour says private schools blaming plans to impose VAT on school fees for financial woes are 'a bit desperate'

[Chris Hooper #LibDems 🔶 @ChrisLDWRuislip]

@threadreaderapp unroll

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Election so far this morning:

* Minister refuses to rule out fining parents if their children decline to take part in Conservative's new national service scheme

* Labour says private schools blaming plans to impose VAT on school fees for financial woes are 'a bit desperate'

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

Have they just... accidentally extended the legal definition of childhood?

[Tim Farron @timfarron]

@ThomasEvansAdur Hi Thomas. Sanctuary has a dictionary definition, and this of course fits it.
How many? Too many. And you have no idea of these people’s stories partly because the government failed to process their claims (hence the cost)… you also have no idea of their motives. Judge not…

[Tim Farron @timfarron]

This is seriously grim. I’m reluctant to glibly overuse the term ‘far right’, but this is properly abhorrent. The tragedy, Richard, is that - whatever one’s views on migration - you think it’s OK to camp outside the sanctuary of people whose circumstances you can’t even imagine.

[Chris Hooper #LibDems 🔶 @ChrisLDWRuislip]

@maitlis It should be pointed out that putting youth compulsorily into military uniform is what Hitler did on Germany in the 1930s, isn't it? Is fascism really the way to go? I don't think so.

[emily m @maitlis]

“Hey team , help me out - any thoughts on how we can push down recruitment of nurses and teachers a bit more.. just spitballing…”

[Steve Peers @StevePeers]

Considering that the money is being taken partly from levelling up funds, and Labour is regularly asked "where is the money coming from", failing to mention this is poor from the BBC

[Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti]

BBC News at Ten report on the Tories' national service policy included a pointless "mixed views" vox pop but made absolutely no mention of how the scheme would be funded 🤷‍♂️🙃

[Guardian politics @GdnPolitics]

‘I wouldn’t put it past him’: questions over whether Murdoch’s UK titles will back Starmer https://t.co/UTScM7uOEP

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

@IanDunt I hope it does, only for him to turn around and reject the endorsement and promise more press regulation.

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

Hope the Sun doesn't endorse Starmer. It doesn't make a blind bit of difference what it does and it would be nice to finally kill off the myth that it can directly influence events.

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

Exclusive: Rishi Sunak is considering requiring future applicants for public sector jobs to have completed National Service

It’s one of the enforcement options that would go to the Royal Commission for consideration if he gets to enact the policy

https://t.co/qlLtaPtxEJ

[Chris Hooper #LibDems 🔶 @ChrisLDWRuislip]

@alexwickham The man is quite mad.