Luke 🇪🇺 💚🌹🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦

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#StickWithStarmer
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Justice system, LGBTQIA health + rights, public transport and housing + homelessness.

[Luke 🇪🇺 💚🌹🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @Labour_Luke]

100%
The over simplification and simply we could have done things much faster argument doesn't wash with me.
Following local elections, we needed a breath in, breath out and then internal discussionss. Instead chaos.

[🅳🅰🅽🅽🆈 🅼🅰🆇🅸🅼 @DannyMaxim]

Absolutely spot on by @TomBaldwin66 in @ObserverUK piece today 👇🏻

[Abdi Duale @AbdiDuale_]

Presumably 10 Downing Street can call up the FIFA President to get that red card cancelled.

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Keir just bodied 30p Lee again, pivoted straight to Farage’s £5m donor drama, hidden lobbying & gold salesman grift.

Reform MPs turning PMQs into comedy gold for Starmer.

Absolute gift.

[Malcolm Tucker @gorbalsgoebbels]

Starmer is on fire. Destroying Kemi (why does she grin like a lunatic?)

And we are replacing him for a tailor’s dummy?

Make it all make sense.

#PMQs

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

Keir Starmer DESTROYS Tory record on defence at #PMQs

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

At this point Kemi realised she’s been owned 😂😂😂
You can see it all over her face 😂 Just look at that expression!

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Our armed forces, the NHS, the economy, our international alliances.

The Tories broke them, we fixed them.

[John Rentoul @JohnRentoul]

PM: "I am proud of this chancellor for having stabilised the economy in 2 short years – this is the end of my journey not the end of anybody else's"

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Resident doctors have just agreed a deal with us to stop the strikes.

This deal will see better pay progression, better career opportunities, and better working conditions for resident doctors.

Together, we can get on with delivering for patients and cutting waiting lists.

[Luke 🇪🇺 💚🌹🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @Labour_Luke]

@KarlTurnerMP But you know what Labour Party members want? It wasn't a change in PM/Leader. I don't want an election, I want us to get on w/governing to change Britain.
Perhaps stay off of X, providing commentary and focus on legislating. I'm less hopefuly w/ Burnham but glad PLP feel better.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

So #BBCQT ran a special episode questioning why there isn’t a general election after Starmer resigned.

Meanwhile, there wasn’t one when May resigned, Johnson resigned, or when Truss resigned either.

But of course, there’s no bias at all - especially when the programme again invited Zia Yusuf, an unelected bureaucrat in Farage's Reform UK Party Limited

[Mia Amor Mottley @miaamormottley]

Every meeting abroad must mean something at home.

I was pleased to meet with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street as Barbados and the United Kingdom continue to deepen a partnership grounded in history, friendship and shared purpose.

We spoke about the work our countries can do together to keep our people safe, protect our climate, create new opportunities, and strengthen the international order on which small states depend. For Barbados, that is always the test: what helps our people, strengthens our region, and gives our voice greater force in the world.

[Anna Turley MP @annaturley]

Kemi Badenoch showed her true character at PMQs today. Classless, vicious & vindictive towards the brilliant @bphillipsonMP . What is it about this clever, decent brilliant women bringing opportunity to children of all backgrounds that Kemi hates so much? Envy is a terrible thing

[Douglas Alexander @D_G_Alexander]

Kemi Badenoch’s attack on Bridget Phillipson at PMQs today said a lot more about her than Bridget.

Like Bridget I’m proudly state schooled: we’re the most state-schooled Cabinet in the post-war era.

We’re not motivated by spite but by tackling poverty & extending opportunity.

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

With Darren Jones now confirming that he will not be entering any leadership contest, I find myself, and I suspect many others, reflecting deeply upon our future within the Labour Party.

I did not join the Labour Party to witness a mandate, won through immense effort and entrusted to Sir Keir Starmer by the British electorate, quietly transferred to another individual through pressure, intrigue, and political calculation. Nor did I join in order to endorse a process which appears, at least to many ordinary members, to be drifting perilously close to a political coup rather than a democratic exercise.

Let me be perfectly clear. I do not wish to see Andy Burnham become Leader of the Labour Party, and I certainly do not wish to see him become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

That is not born of personal animosity. It is a matter of principle. Leadership should be earned, not assumed. Mandates should be won, not inherited. Legitimacy should flow upwards from the membership and the electorate, not downwards from a collection of parliamentarians, advisers, commentators, and newspaper columnists who appear increasingly determined to decide the outcome before the contest has even begun.

What troubles me most is the growing sense that some believe the membership should simply acquiesce and accept whatever arrangement is placed before them. Such an attitude betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what the Labour Party is. It does not belong to the Parliamentary Labour Party. It does not belong to newspaper editors. It does not belong to political factions. It belongs to its members.

Those members pay for the party. They campaign for it in all weathers. They knock on doors, deliver leaflets, defend its values, and devote countless hours of their lives to its success. They are not an inconvenience to be managed. They are the very foundation upon which the party stands.

If Andy Burnham genuinely believes he is the right person to lead Labour, then he should place that proposition before the membership and allow them to render their verdict. Let there be a contest conducted openly, honestly, and democratically. Let the 350,000 members exercise the rights afforded to them by the party's constitution. Let us discover whether the enthusiasm proclaimed by certain sections of the media and elements within Westminster truly extends beyond those circles and into the wider Labour movement.

For my part, I remain unconvinced. More importantly, I remain profoundly uneasy at the manner in which this entire affair is unfolding. The Labour Party has always prided itself on being a democratic movement. If that principle is to mean anything at all, then the members must be permitted to determine their own future free from coercion, manipulation, or prearranged outcomes.

Anything less would not merely diminish the authority of a future leader. It would represent a profound disservice to the very people upon whom the Labour Party ultimately depends.

[Bridget Phillipson @bphillipsonMP]

Kemi lost her head at PMQs - and afterwards too.

It's not the first time. She's compared me to a Gestapo officer.

I wonder what it is about a working class woman driving record investment in state schools by ending private schools' tax breaks that the Tories hate so much.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Change promised by a Labour government.

Change delivered by a Labour government.

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

Kemi Badenoch’s attack on Bridget Phillipson at PMQs today lays bare something deeper about the direction of their politics.

I’m proud that this Labour government has the most state-schooled Cabinet in the post-war era - people who didn’t grow up with privilege, but earned their place through hard work.

That’s the difference between us and them.

This Labour government believes background should never be a barrier to opportunity. Social mobility isn’t a slogan - it’s the whole point of a fair society. And yet too often it feels like there are those who want to sneer at it, undermine it, and drag us backwards.

We should be celebrating opportunity, not trying to hold it back.

[Douglas Alexander @D_G_Alexander]

Today’s statement showed dignity, grace & patriotism.

Keir Starmer will long be recognised for rebuilding Labour, ridding the country of a discredited Conservative Government and the work of national renewal.

Labour’s task now is to ensure the work of change is taken forward.

[Politics Global @PolitlcsGlobal]

🚨🇮🇪 NEW: Taoiseach Micheál Martin has commended Keir Starmer for his role in resetting relations between the UK and EU

[Emma Reynolds for Wycombe 🌹 @EmmaforWycombe]

When I lost my seat in 2019, I didn’t believe Labour could win power and be in Government by 2024. Keir rebuilt the Labour Party from the ground up. He won the trust of the public, secured a landslide victory, changed the country for the better and leaves a lasting legacy.