@Peston How about joining the single market and customs union. That would raise £40bn p.a. in tax revenue and reduce the debt/GDP ratio by 4% overnight.
BBC News cover Israel attacking tents housing refugees in the grounds of a hospital
The report includes, "A figure enveloped by the inferno.. Too distressing to show here"
That figure was Shaban Al-Dalou, a 19 year old student who built the tent he was murdered in
@SkyPoliticsHub @wesstreeting@SophyRidgeSky That's just a bunch of lies.
#Brexit is a running sore in the UK and is still very much talked about and hated.
Ignoring it won't fix it.
Country which has spent the last 8 yrs insisting on doggedly putting up massive unnecessary bureaucracy on trade with its biggest trading partner - the world's most prosperous single market next door - vows to "rip out bureaucracy"👇🤡
Make no mistake - if Scotland votes Labour into Holyrood it will race to take Scottish benefits down to England's level
Prescriptions
Hospital parking
Tuition fees
Bridge tolls
Bus passes scrapped
Scottish child allowance
@ScottishLabour will follow the orders of @UKLabour
One thing which did emerge from the ‘Meet Our Waterfront’ consultation is La Pasionaria, my favourite #Glasgow statue, will be temporarily moved. There’s an amusing backstory to her being on the banks of the Clyde as the Tory councillors were passionately opposed to it…. 1/2
Huge and historic victory for transgender rights in Europe--the European Union's top court has ruled that gender changes issued by one member country must be respected in every EU country. The Court ruled “Gender, like a first name, is a fundamental element of personal identity.”
Puzzling why Labour MSPs should ask SNP Scot Gov’s help to keep the People’s Story Museum open, when it is the *Labour* Edinburgh Council administration that closed it - without any consultation.
All the more bemusing given the museum was set up by the Labour party decades ago.
Not normal, surely, to send “an envoy” to explore parts of the same unitary state? Sounds vaguely ambassadorial. Or else a grandiosely titled non job. “A Downing St spokeswoman confirmed Ms Gray was taking up a new role as the PM’s envoy for nations..” https://t.co/KtBNgE1L0b
Brexit Curse:
UK may approve bee-killing pesticide despite election promise to ban it.
Neonicotinoids are banned in the EU because they are toxic to bees.
Starmer promised to ban it BUT ...
Anything not on sale to corporations and wealthy elites?
https://t.co/lGehKUJncw