England’s COVID deaths in the first 25 days of October per year:
2022: 4,013
2021: 3,093
2020: 3,021
We are still in the middle of the pandemic.
Sources: GOVUK 60day deaths.
I am one of the elected people who ratified the Withdrawal Agreement on the EU side.
I - just as all of us - did this because we expected that the NI Protocol would be implemented by the UK.
Because we expected the UK to follow International Law.
This expectation still stands.
Welcome to modern Britian on a Monday morning.
Red dots is where sewage dumping has been taking places over the weekend, grey dots is where the water company has stopped supplying the data. Why have you done that @SouthWestWater?
New Prime Minister could be chosen as early as tomorrow evening, Friday at the latest. Two of those expected to run haven’t said ANYTHING publicly about their plans for government and the third just refused to give any details. Not a normal leadership contest @bbclaurak
If you believe the NHS is an example of socialist thinking and that's why the Tories want to privatise it, then follow me and I'll follow you back #SocialistSunday
Eddie Mair rips Boris apart with questions about lying and integrity. Johnson turned up for interview not realising Andrew Marr was sick with Mair standing in. Mair, a working class boy from Dundee had no time for Johnson’s pomp, arrogance and entitlement.
In the Levelling Up Bill Committee yesterday, I proposed an amendment to make all train stations meet disability access standards.
Disappointingly my amendment was defeated by 8 votes to 6, with every Tory MP voting against.
All train stations should be accessible for everyone.
We shouldn’t let this be buried by other news today. Foodbank charity Trussell Trust says that the need for foodbanks has outstripped donations for the first time. It has distributed 46% more emergency food parcels in August and September than at the same time in 2021.
For three years I tracked Johnson's lies and fabrications. Hundreds of them. The link below takes you to 60 plus time he misled or lied to Parliament in defiance of the ministerial code. NB: it only goes up to May this year.
https://t.co/cNu9uyvWKa
Er, Boris Johnson is still being being investigated by the Privileges Committee for potentially misleading the House with partygate lies.
How can he possibly be considered for the leadership with that investigation ongoing?
Our fridge was never full when I was growing up. Often it was just the light in there. I remember lying awake hungry, counting the hours till my free school lunch. My mum going without.
This is still so hard to say. It didn’t need to happen then. It doesn’t need to happen now.
Business ministers were warned by their ethics team not to hold meetings with an oil company under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. Kwasi Kwarteng - remember him?? - went ahead and had five. Full story in the brand new Private Eye, in shops today.
Woke is not an insult
Woke people ended slavery & child labour, fought for women to get the vote & equality for races, LGBT+ & disabled
Woke people created the NHS & stood up to the Nazis
Being woke is simply wanting OTHERS to be treated as YOU yourself would want to be treated
Oh FFS! I find it insulting that they seem to think a non specialist doctor can just walk in and do my job. You can't just walk in and be a gp from hospital any more than I can perform orthopedic surgery because I was a surgical jho once.
https://t.co/IvOKX29G2s
The new Home Secretary, responsible for law and order in this country, masqueraded as a “multimillion-dollar web marketer” called "Michael Green", while engaging in what I see as highly questionable business practices.