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[thelefttake @thelefttake]

“Cutting red tape costs taxpayers nothing”

[Labour Press @labourpress]

Why on earth would crypto billionaires give Reform £72 million?

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

A reminder.

The latest HMRC figures show that in 2023–24:

30,400 estates paid inheritance tax

That was 4.72% of UK deaths—fewer than one in twenty

Therefore, roughly 95% of estates paid none.

We’re talking about a tax which affects only the wealthiest estates.

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

@BBC I do not pay my licence fee for you to promote organised crime group Reform UK. You're turning it into tribute.

[Oscar Dog @OscarWoofs]

Who else is fed up with #r4today leading their news headlines with what ReformUK might do if elected?

Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow?

Why does @BBCr4today not also lead with what Lib Dems might do, Tories, SNP or Greens ? Hmm?

@BBCNews needs serious rethink. @BBCR4Feedback

[Chris S @chris_spencer04]

There's one thing about the "small boats" debate I think often gets missed

Since 2018 just under 200k people have arrived in this way

the UK population is roughly 69.9m

So that's 0.286% of the population.

This means that when you talk about pressures on the NHS, housing, benefits and so on - channel crossings are (at most) responsible for 0.286% of that pressure.

Before everyone piles on, I'm not suggesting for a minute that this isn't problematic and that channel crossings don't need to be addressed. I also understand why people get particularly frustrated about this issue on the basis of principle or fairness.

I'm highlighting the scale of this issue because it is all Reform talk about, and they are now looking to divert a huge chunk of military and financial resources (some of which don't currently exists) into trying to solve the problem.

By comparison they rarely talk about health, education, defence, or the economy, and have no detailed policy on any other issues.

They have somehow managed to convince people that stopping the boats would solve all of the country's issues.

It might help, to the tune of 0.286%, whilst neglecting everything else.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

This is beautiful from start to finish.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🍺 Tim Martin argued Brexit would make Britain more prosperous and competitive.

Today, Wetherspoons is issuing its fourth profit warning in seven months, citing rising costs squeezing margins.

Northern Ireland offers an interesting comparison. Its economy has generally performed better than GB since Brexit, helped by its unique access to both the UK internal market and the EU Single Market.

Its hospitality sector still faces high UK costs and must compete with the Republic of Ireland, where the hospitality VAT rate is much lower.

Brexit was sold as making British businesses more competitive. The results suggest it’s worth asking whether those promises have been fulfilled.

[FightingAnne1 @FightingAnne1]

FARAGE 11 WEEKS

It's over 11 weeks since the #Clacton MP's SECRET £5m was EXPOSED.

#Farage 'RESIGNED as #ClactonMP' to avoid giving HONEST answers.

Farage must explain the..

£5m 'GIFT'

£1m #Brexit BUNG

WE'RE WAITING FARAGE

#FarageTax
#FarageLies
#FarageRiots
#FarageBUNG

[Shoaib M Khan @ShoaibMKhan]

So @michaelgove has repeatedly proudly announced that "Dame Heather Hallet found *no* evidence of cronyism or corruption on the part of ministers or officials".

This is what the report says. What is this then?

How do our leaders define cronyism?

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"The VIP lane was a textbook case of corruption and cronyism."

The daughter of Christina Fulop, who died from COVID, speaks out after it was revealed that nearly £10bn of taxpayers' money spent on PPE was wasted.

https://t.co/MhLrzHFVBZ

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Activists replace Union Jacks with ‘Tax The Rich’ flags in Farage’s Clacton
https://t.co/u2jOCKy5Si

[Richard Holden MP @RicHolden]

The #Clacton By-election is about trying to circumvent the due processes of our 🇬🇧 Parliament

Our democratically elected House of Commons that comes from our country which is the mother of all Parliaments

Something Nigel Farage once said he valued but now something he and his yes-men are now trying to trash to save his own skin as he fights a 🗑️

[Steve Jones @antoniosteve]

Kind of amazing that Count Binface has managed to unite pretty much everyone from the Greens through to the Tories.

Reform are right, this is a coordinated effort to bring down Farage.

Because he's a corrupt and dangerous man, unfit to be in politics.

#VoteBinface

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Clarification: Sky News was not at the property at 7.41am. As has already been acknowledged, and as shown in the footage from 10.19am, Sky News was outside a property where Mr Farage was registered to vote at the last election. Sky News did not interact with Mr Farage’s daughter.

On a single occasion, we approached the property without a camera operator, identified ourselves as Sky News, and the adult occupant chose not to engage. We were seeking to contact Mr Farage to ask questions about the gift he accepted from Mr Cottrell. This is a well-established and routine journalistic practice when reporting on matters of legitimate public interest.

The footage clearly demonstrates that Sky News did not “hound” or pursue Mr Farage’s daughter. At no stage did we seek to speak to anyone other than Mr Farage in connection with this story.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Farage finally making the front pages for all the right reasons

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Bravo to the @Gabriel_Pogrund & team. This is the story in plain sight that needed to be nailed. Congrats are in order for getting it over a difficult line.

George Cottrell has operated with impunity at highest levels of UK politics for more than a decade
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[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

If the Guardian hadn't revealed the £5m bribe, nobody would have known about it. There will be more.

[Hugh Grant @HackedOffHugh]

Last week I spoke at a rally about the problem of deliberate disinformation in sections of the UK corporate press. Neatly, the rally was reported in the Sunday Telegraph in an article full deliberate disinformation. https://t.co/JUDsoXfFUD

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Look at the date on this. It’s GREAT that there is now journalistic scrutiny on Farage but it is absolutely extraordinary it has taken this long