BREAKING: Leeds Greens councillor Cristiana Mirosanu has resigned from the group.
This and more in your briefing today:
🟢 National papers finally catch up after nicking our homework on the Leeds Greens
🚉 Unsurprisingly, another delay on the trains (Leeds Station entrance overhaul)
🪧 Protest planned against data centre
https://t.co/SDkijymMDw
There is a significant amount of illegality about what these protesters are doing, plain and simple. The police simply must prevent them, and as long as these people are able to act like this, they pose more and more of a risk to both migrants and the local population.
🚨 NEW: Masked protestors are in the water with the coastguard tonight after a small boat arrived in Portsmouth earlier
Around 500 people are also blocking coaches to transport the migrants from leaving
@ADZanderWest But being a reform mayor is not being a supporter, it is being the face of their racism and sexism on a very public stage. Therefore we associate ourselves with people who campaigned for their toxic politics by allowing them into the party
I oppose this strongly. We call reform racist (which they are), we call them sexist (which they are) so why would we want to include one of them into our party? This party cannot be associated with them, thats a bridge we cannot cross.
Nigel Farage standing on the stage and laughing at a woman being punched, slapped and spat upon will ne the defining image of the Reform Party Ltd 2026 Conference
I didn’t become Prime Minister to just make a few tweaks around the edges. I want to change the way this country works.
For too long, politics became comfortable with the idea that some things just can't be fixed. People sleeping on our streets. Huge inequalities between different parts of the country. Young people unable to afford a home. Communities watching decisions about their future being taken somewhere else, by someone else.
Governments have talked about those things. They've even promised to fix them. But too often, they've reached the same conclusion: it just can't be done.
I don't accept that, and I never have.
That’s why we’ve invested to offer everyone who needs it a route off the streets by Christmas.
It's why we've announced the biggest council housebuilding programme since the Second World War.
It's why we're opening 159 new mental health centres.
It's why we've finally put technical education on par with the academic route.
It's why we're delivering the biggest transfer of power out of Westminster and into local communities in a generation.
And it's why we opened No10 North too.
Not as another government office. But because I believe one thing very strongly: Britain won't be rebuilt from the top down.
You have to put power back in the hands of the people and places that know their communities best - and then put the full weight of government behind them.
I also want to give people a bit of breathing space too.
That's why we've cut tax on electricity bills, capped bus fares at £2, and made subscriptions easier to cancel.
It’s why we've cracked down on fake discounts and cut business rates for pubs, social clubs and music venues.
And it's why we've extended the 16-17 Saver Railcard and introduced free 24/7 bus travel for disabled people.
That is the change we have started. More power for our communities, more support on the cost of living and a long-term plan to rebuild the country.
Each one of those changes is part of the same thing.
Good growth in every postcode.
Reindustrialising Britain.
And making sure wherever you live - and whatever your background - you feel this country has a future for you.
Because, in the end, that's what this is about: bringing back hope.
🚨🇬🇧 NEW: “Come On Eileen” songwriter Kevin Rowland says he is “disgusted” that Nigel Farage used the song as his party conference entrance music
Rowland says he and all Dexys are “passionately against Farage’s politics”
Always happy to show the far right that they aren’t welcome in leeds! ✊✊✊
“Una mattina mi son' svegliato,
O bella, ciao! Bella, ciao! Bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!
Una mattina mi son' svegliato,
E ho trovato l'invasor” etc etc
@iainbutsecret Hallelujah I completely agree - theyre basically rebranded starmerites who’ve ditched the briefcase for buzzballs and ugh its so annoying
The only true “starmerites” are just insane in their own little echo chamber asylum
🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage says the UK is a "complainants' society" amid questions over his finances
"If you complain about me, automatically that triggers an investigation"
Lies from him to the end.
The Labour Party wasn’t in financial ruin and for him to say moral ruin is laughable considering the scandals and mistakes that defined his leadership.
Many good people ran out of the party under Starmer by his factionalism and purging of socialists.