Danny Davies

London / Preston

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Gabriel Clarke’s two interviews with Thomas Tuchel and Jude Bellingham were dreadful. Tuchel was very clear in his praise for England’s strength of character but he wasn’t happy with the performance. Clarke failed to understand Tuchel’s mentality comments. He then gave a misleading follow up to Bellingham which suggested to Bellingham that Tuchel was unhappy with the team. Unnecessarily disruptive and the wrong context of interviewing in two separate interviews.

#EngvNor

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BenInRushcliffe]

All this in two years. @Keir_Starmer.

Feel free to share.

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.

Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.

Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.

Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:

• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.

• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.

• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.

• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.

• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.

• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.

• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.

• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.

• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.

• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.

• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.

• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.

• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.

• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.

• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.

• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.

• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.

• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.

• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.

• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.

• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.

• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.

• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.

• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.

People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.

[Sam @SamCKx]

If Keir Starmer does resign, history will look back on his reign and scratch its head as to why the hell he was so hated.

On paper, he's probably delivered more to working British people in such a short time than any PM for decades.

After inheriting an absolute mess: NHS waiting lists fallen. Worker's rights improved. Rail operators nationalised. Improved relations with EU and improved UK's global reputation. Removed non-dom tax status. Halved childcare costs. Boosted state pensions. Lowest homicide rate in 50 years. Lifted 550k children out of poverty. Immigration vastly reduced.

We are in the age of billionaire funded misinformation, whose sole purpose is to topple democratically elected leaders, and insert leadership that favours the wealthy elites over the working people. Looks like the game plan is working...

[Financial Times @FT]

FT Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. https://t.co/8avOxCjo9I

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

Farage has a company, Thorn in the Side, which he uses to launder his media income (so he doesn't pay income tax). His earnings from I'm a Celebrity were paid into it, and were still there in 2025. He didn't use them to buy a house.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Hilarious video that shows none of the Reform voters know any of Reform's policies.

[ITVPolitics @ITVNewsPolitics]

'Please, you don't have to have your hand on me'

Watch the moment ITV News' @PeterAdamSmith was grabbed by a Reform UK staffer after being told to move on from his line of questioning while interviewing the party's new Scottish leader, Malcolm Offord

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

I worked in BBC News for years. When it frames guests on the Left (Faiza Shaheen) as “activists” (undermining them) & those on the Right as “academics” (boosting them) it’s usually a subconscious - not deliberate - decision; providing a candid insight into its institutional bias

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

Rupert Lowe(Independent MP) mistakes a charity boat for a migrant small boat. 🤦

Matthew Parker(crew member): "We spent the next hour & a half being followed by a group of people on the beach with torches obviously waiting for us to land... "

#BBCBreakfast

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BenInRushcliffe]

I'll never forget Farage saying this about the Liz Truss budget. It cost my family thousands when remortgaging.

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Confirmed, Reform UK’s Deputy Leader in Durham Council @darrengrimes is a liar.

Undisputedly.

[JPC @jpxan71]

Credit to GBNews… not something you’d expect but….
Allowing Natalie Fleet to speak truth to their audience who’ve been fed a very different narrative is superb 👇👇🔥🔥👇👇

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: A voter says the level of migrant blaming is akin to the blaming of Jews in 1930s Germany

"We're now blaming migrants for ways in which our society is run. Migrants weren't responsible for austerity, that was Tory govt. Migrants weren't responsible for Brexit. Migrants weren't responsible for Liz Truss' failure" #bbcqt

[Danny Davies @DannyDavies21]

Selling a ticket for HI-LO at E1 tonight for £20 #E1 #HILO #OliverHeldens

[Danny Davies @DannyDavies21]

@tomvictor @FootballCliches

[Davo 🇵🇪 @Stoke_Davo]

Steven Schumacher on his way to Stoke when he remembered a Lighthouse: