I had the pleasure of interviewing this giant of a character a couple of times. He was always a great interviewee and will be a big miss from the world of politics RIP former DPM John.
John Prescott was a giant of the Labour movement.
As Deputy Leader and Deputy Prime Minister he served our party and our country with distinction.
The Labour Party sends deepest condolences to Pauline, John’s family, and everyone who knew and loved him.
May he rest in peace.
The man who made things a whole lot more difficult for farmers, now has the cheek to cosplay as a farmer, while claiming to be on their side.
Absolute charlatan.
If you bought a farm to avoid tax, don’t cry about your chickens coming home to roost…
It’s a 20% tax, half what the rest of us pay… Billionaire Dyson should suck it up…
Just to be really clear if you asked me "Is it worth raising max tuition fees by 3.1% to get a 3.1% rise in maintenance loans (both now confirmed)?". My answer is YES.
Tuition fee rises don't effect most 1st time students (unless so wealthy they opt not to get loans), they affect graduates and the only ones who will pay more due to the rise are mid-high to high earning graduates (and only small % more).
The terrible degradation of living loans has hit those from low income backgrounds - who can't afford to live while they study - and thus social mobility. So a rise is important though more is needed to catch up with the huge past years real term cuts.
Explanations below.
I’ve worked with @michaelmordey and @RachelReevesMP to secure £25m for @Fulwell73’s Crown Works Studios in Sunderland!
8000 great jobs for the people of our region.
We’re creating opportunity, harnessing talent and turbocharging the creative industries in our North East.
Dear Laura Trott
A reminder. Here's the arrogant Kemi Badenoch being rightly reprimanded by Lindsay Hoyle for failing to first announce in the Commons that the government is ditching plans to scrap thousands of EU laws by the end of the year.
#C4News
While many already do, I think all political & company leaders should post on this platform themselves directly, as it bypasses the legacy media negativity filter. Your actual message will reach people, instead of some reporter’s often unfair hit piece.
Sure, you might say something silly once in a while, as I do, but that way people know it’s really you! Authenticity matters vastly more than the occasional gaffe when talking face to face and the same is true online.
And your message can reach thousands of times more people than a random newspaper article. There are about 600 million active monthly users on this platform and, when counting those who log in occasionally (usually to learn about a real-time crisis), roughly a BILLION people with active accounts.
Moreover, this platform is where the most influential people in the world are. I don’t use anything else personally and the same is true for many people I know.
‘When you’re having a pop at the PM for moving out of his house so his son can revise for his GCSE’s…you’ve lost all sense of what’s a story.’
@BenKentish ‘can’t help but agree’ with those angered by journalists covering the ‘freebies’ row over ‘vital world issues’.
This 500-year-old portrait may seem ordinary, but it's one of the most mysterious in history.
There's so much detail that you can read every musical note on this small page.
But look closer — an unsettling secret is hiding in plain sight... 🧵