Laura Wigan

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Climbers ascend to the highest peak of Poland and find a cat at the summit

[Laura Makabresku @KamilaKansy]

Whispers

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Animals interrupting wildlife photographers - a thread 🧵

1. A curious fox by Dan Dinu

[Laura Wigan @LWigan]

@TheRegencyCook @ceecee131313 Ha! I just came here to ask if it was Elton House.

[Jonathan Melville @jon_melville]

Watching a 1969 documentary about Michael Caine and there’s a lovely moment where he visits his old house and is recognised as Maurice Micklewhite by a neighbour.

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

Hilary Benn MP @HilaryBennMP has been appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

[Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 @BellaWallerstei]

Very moving tribute from Conservative MP Laura Farris to Harriet Harman. The House of Commons at its best. We need more of this.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 | NEW: Tory MP Nick Fletcher has just said in the Commons that Boris Johnson's probe wasn't fair as it wasn't solely conducted by Tory MPs...

[Tides of History @labour_history]

#OTD 1947. Death of Ellen Wilkinson.

One of Labour's pioneering working class women MPs, she rose to prominence during the Jarrow March in the 1930s becoming Education Minister in 1945

A thread on her life and her politics:👇

[Laura Wigan @LWigan]

@teaforpterosaur I can't believe the shrimp earrings are losing. What's wrong with people?

[Hilary Benn @hilarybennmp]

My question today about the affordable housing crisis across the country, including in Leeds. I did not get an answer as to what the Government intends to do about this

[Laura Wigan @LWigan]

@SMowerJourno My Mum's just dug mine out of the attic. Only one family but they had a manor house, a canal boat, a bakery and a pony!

[Kane Emerson @KaneEmerson]

Mo Mowlam on the quiet kindness of Betty Boothroyd while she was undergoing cancer treatment.

[Hilary Benn @hilarybennmp]

The Government talks about levelling-up but many communities with great needs - like Holbeck - got no funding today. We need a different system.

[Oliver Coppard @olivercoppard]

To be fair to @RishiSunak, you can't say he didn't warn us.

£19m for his own constituency.

We got nothing.

[Amanda Akass @amandaakass]

Chair of the Public Accounts Committee @Meg_HillierMP tells me she “could weep for the five years lost”after the decision to scrap the organisation set up to manage Parliament’s renovation in 2018 - after it estimated the bill at £7bn+ (up to £22bn if the building isn’t vacated)

[Joseph Elliott @J_Elliott94]

Has the social contract between generations been broken?

A person born in 1956 will on average have have paid £940k in tax during their life, but are forecast to receive state benefits amounting to £1.2m, net £291k.

[Laura Wigan @LWigan]

@rantingkat Oh God, do you remember hovering under the dryer at lower school trying to keep warm?? 🥶

[Paris Zarcilla @ParisZarcilla]

Alt text: Belly full, Mac sits upon his cat tree throne dressed in Sunday sunlight. His shadow watches a battle of two tigers while he summons me with slow blinks.

[Laura Wigan @LWigan]

@MartinSLewis Existing follower. @CABDoncaster do incredible work supporting people struggling with the cost of living crisis in Donny.