Joe Tetlow

Public Affairs, Brands2Life. Former SpAd. Associate @WeAreBrightBlue. Views own.

[Joe Tetlow @TetlowTweets]

@GBNEWS @MarcusDon_ https://t.co/QFaLtSkScG

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Tory fundraising team putting in a shift. Party reports £6 million+ in donations for the first quarter of 2026 – an increase of 25% on the same period in Q1 of 2025.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

This is Kemi Badenoch at her best. Hits precisely the right tone here.

[Tom Edwards @BBCTomEdwards]

Interesting mobile data from @virginmedia show some Londoners staying away due to #tubestrike :

•The City is down by 16%
•King's Cross is down by 8%
•The West End is down by 6%
•Westminster is down by 11%

[Joe Tetlow @TetlowTweets]

@afcevan Painter is Nick Botting. Artist page here 👉https://t.co/KeVYnbVlKY

[Flora Williamson @Flo_williamson]

We’ve reached peak Guardian blog

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

If there's no evidence people left the country after their visa expired, the ONS just *assumes* they left.
Via FOI I have found out that this assumption now accounts for a *fifth* of all non-EU emigration - and rising rapidly.
The govt must get a grip on who is in this country.

[Solomon Cuthbertson @SolCuthbertson]

Ok cool, but why is Emmanuel Macron taking a photo of it?

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

Unemployment is now 5% and only half of under-25s are in paid employment.

Every Labour leadership contender should have a coherent answer to how we can reverse these trends and avoid creating a lost generation of young people.

Today's @thetimes column👇
https://t.co/Bnli5IcVry

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Reform won all 8 Makerfield Wards - as assigned by ONS - at last week’s elections:

Reform: 50.4%
Labour: 22.7%
Green: 10.9%
Conservative: 9.9%
Lib Dem: 3.8%
Other: 2.2%

[Joe Tetlow @TetlowTweets]

A fitting day for Labour Together to be renamed

[David Lawrence @dc_lawrence]

Today feels like a good day to ask: what actually is Manchesterism?

That's the question @b_judah & I try to answer in our latest piece for @ArguablyMag.

Manchesterism as attractive as it is protean. In a Labour Party desperate for a rallying philosophy, Manchesterism evokes solidity, grounded in the concreteness of a city, while remaining open to interpretation.

Manchester is a rare modern British success story. Since 2015, the city’s GDP growth has averaged 3.1 per cent each year, double the UK average, and outpacing the US over the same period.

But people disagree about the causes of Manchester’s success. There are several competing stories:

🌽 the free trade one: Manchester Liberalism opposed the Corn Laws and advocated free trade. More recently, the city has courted Gulf investors and leased public land to private developers.
🚰 the municipal socialism one: which points to Manchester's early success in centrally controlling key utilities
🏗️ the YIMBY one: Manchester has shown a willingness & ability to build far more than other UK cities, not just homes, but also transport.
🗺️ the devo one: almost everyone agrees that devolution has been good for Manchester. But what's the mechanism here, and can it be replicated elsewhere?

There is truth in all of these stories. Manchester’s economic and political history embodies contradictions that do not lend themselves to a single overarching political philosophy.

If there is one unifying theme, it is dynamism: Manchester has repeatedly adjusted and reinvented itself and made the most of its autonomy.

What can the rest of the country learn from Manchester's success? Read the full piece here: https://t.co/bRPSdLn28j

[Jade Azim @JadeFrancesAzim]

The Red Lion kerb tomorrow is going to be immense.

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

All Labour MPs should be looking at this very carefully.

Potential leadership contenders who reckon that more borrowing and/or (even more) growth unfriendly policies on tax, spend and regulation are the way forward should reflect on it even more carefully.

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

This means Catherine West has fallen in behind the Burnham plan for an orderly transition after lobbying from his camp. So the question now is does Wes Streeting go over the top to accelerate a contest.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

London boroughs really are California levels of slow when it comes to counting votes.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

One other effect of tonight is that the Tories will now genuinely think they're in with a shout of seizing back the London mayoralty.

[Lambeth Conservatives @Lambeth_Tories]

For the Green Party to have selected Sabine Mairey as a candidate shows how unfit they are to represent Clapham Town. We have a vibrant and diverse community here in Clapham. Anti-semitism is not welcome here.

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

The stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green today follows a pattern of antisemitic attacks.

Jewish people were targeted, outside a synagogue, in broad daylight, just for who they are

This shows why the multi-year funding for the @CST_UK is so important.

We must send a clear and unambiguous rejection of antisemitism in all its forms.