When your hear Rishi Sunak, Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, Priti Patel , James Cleverly & Kemi Badenoch call for calm over the coming days, just remember they helped light the touch-paper for these race riots by allowing the spread of disinformation like this from Tory HQ:
We’ve had a closer look at the numbers from the newly-marginal constituency of Tatton. The full story is even more positive for Labour in the long term. Quick 🧵.
🗳️ Ryan received the highest number of votes (18,820) of any second-placed Labour candidate in the country.
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How right-wing is the new parliamentary Conservative party?
About as right wing as it was in 2019, according to https://t.co/SK3KLVuiZd https://t.co/cXgDjoaR9J
May this person never ever be near Government again.
What a disgusting speech.
It’s never made me prouder to have campaigned so hard to get this rotten lot out of government and replace them with a government that has empathy and compassion towards people.
The Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP @AngelaRayner has been appointed Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities @luhc.
She will also be Deputy Prime Minister.
#Reshuffle
I wrote this article for The Guardian six days after the 2019 election. Definitely right in terms of history repeating itself. And not far off in terms of the loss of Tory seats.
Keir Starmer has summed it up "today we enter the sunlight of hope". Congratulations to Keir and all @UKLabour for a resounding election victory. My best wishes to all the new Labour MPs and, above all, I congratulate the British people who have chosen not just change, but hope.