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Devout Goveite

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High Grant finally found him someone who will abolish the free press in the name of ‘justice’.

[Alexander Brown @AlexofBrown]

Hugh Grant has arrived at Labour’s Makerfield HQ to support Andy Burnham

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“Have a brew. Have a vote” oh it’s just all so nauseating

[Ben @benhoobs]

Good morning Makerfield ☀️🌹

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Scenes

[Jacob Rees-Mogg @Jacob_Rees_Mogg]

Please could the Thames Valley Police allow people into the Oxford Union. Protesters are blocking the entrances while law and order is not being upheld.

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‘Progressive capitalism’ or ‘business-friendly socialism’, choose your fighter.

[Noa Hoffman @hoffman_noa]

Wes Streeting enters a very boujee City conference room to deliver his leadership pitch for “progressive capitalism”

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@kunley_drukpa This is wrong. He will obviously be calling me ‘mate’.

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Glad the NS finally recognises this!

Joshi Herrmann: “Without meaning to, McTague has sent the media on a wild goose chase for a political programme that doesn’t exist, from a man who is known for not having one.”

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

Manchesterism is not socialism. Andy Burnham’s city is a neoliberal metropolis.

“Manchesterism” is a contradiction. Rather the city representing a break with neoliberalism, Manchester appears in many ways to be an exemplar case. In the 19th century the Germans had a term for laissez-faire free trade liberalism. They called it Manchesterthum, or “Manchesterism” – the ideology of the factory owners and shopkeepers who ran the city in the interests of industrial capital. Far from a new vision of socialism, might today’s “Manchesterism” instead be a cousin of that ideology?

By Isaac Rose

https://t.co/t1jA8DEy0C

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Anything to avoid confronting their own MPs on welfare

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

Treasury source suggests that John Healey was, in effect, asking for cuts to schools and hospitals to pay for extra uplift in defence spending.

"The chancellor will always do what is right and needed to keep this country safe, you can see that from her actions - a record uplift in defence spending at the spending review, and then working alongside the PM deliver billions more to fund the DIP".

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Release the Defence Investment Plan school walkout when?

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Military procurement is the worst taxpayer value of any major spending. You obviously resolve that before spending even more.

But these people just want a % for press releases. Same 🤡 politics as the last 25 years.

[Ridge & Frost @RidgeandFrost]

'London will be less safe', says Sir Mark Rowley, after London mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a contract between Palantir and the Metropolitan police ⬇️

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

Wanting a "better life" does not make you an asylum seeker, and leaving your wife and child behind is very poor behaviour.

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@algorecrave You sure about that?

[Lucy Fisher @LOS_Fisher]

NEW: Andy Burnham has hinted at a new multibillion-pound spending commitment if he becomes PM, saying that more than 3.5mn women “deserve” compensation over what he regards as a pension scandal

Earlier I attended a Makerfield hustings event hosted by @MENnewsdesk, in which Burnham said: “I stick by campaigners that I support. I stuck by the Hillsborough families, I’ll stick by the Waspi women because they deserve some recompense for the unfairness.”

Stressing he wouldn’t ditch his longterm support for Waspi women, he said he felt “uncomfortable” that some politicians threw their support behind a cause but then went into government and “didn’t do anything”

https://t.co/vQkuikv3aG

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It’s perfect

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Just because she couldn’t write an intellectually coherent essay doesn’t mean she should paint all women with her brush.

[Martina Bet @martinabettt]

Punchy comments from Lucy Powell at Think Labour tonight. I hear she spoke about politics being dominated by “three men”, said women in politics don’t have time to “write essays”, and argued they are often left to clear up the mess...

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A poorly thought through duty of candour would have disastrous consequences which the state already cannot bear. Time and again Burnham just does not appear up to it.

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The under discussed point here is obviously that Burnham is going to destroy our institutions in the name of Hillsborough.

[Lucy Fisher @LOS_Fisher]

NEW: Andy Burnham has hinted at a new multibillion-pound spending commitment if he becomes PM, saying that more than 3.5mn women “deserve” compensation over what he regards as a pension scandal

Earlier I attended a Makerfield hustings event hosted by @MENnewsdesk, in which Burnham said: “I stick by campaigners that I support. I stuck by the Hillsborough families, I’ll stick by the Waspi women because they deserve some recompense for the unfairness.”

Stressing he wouldn’t ditch his longterm support for Waspi women, he said he felt “uncomfortable” that some politicians threw their support behind a cause but then went into government and “didn’t do anything”

https://t.co/vQkuikv3aG

[Christian May @ChristianJMay]

Astonishing

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The people of Belfast can feel anger for themselves.

[LBC @LBC]

“I doubt Elon Musk could even point to Belfast on a map.”

@Lewis_Goodall calls out the 'tech oligarch' for ‘fanning the flames’ of a riot in a city he ‘knows nothing about’.

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Imagine if 50% of the political support for WASPI women went into post 2010 student loans

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@francessmith Mr Murdoch has been pulling his strings