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[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

Exclusive: Business leaders want Labour to keep Keir Starmer as prime minister, a new poll shows.

48% of 500 executives polled said a challenge to Starmer would pose a serious risk to their business, according to research by Bradshaw Advisory and @StrategyMerlin shared with Bloomberg.

One in five financial services leaders said Starmer’s ousting would threaten “major impact” to their businesses, rating the risk at 10/10.

Notably, the executives were split on whether they’d support a Starmer-led Labour Party or Reform at the next election, with 24% of those polled backing each. That’s a greater openness towards Reform from the business community than you might expect.

What’s clear is they do not want a different Labour leader. Only 10% said they’d vote for a Labour Party led by someone else.

https://t.co/sSqGzGeuRQ

[Telegraph Business @TeleBusiness]

🔴 EU steel tariffs ‘breach Brexit deal’, warns Britain’s former trade adviser
https://t.co/4WKutmZl1m

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🖊️ "Decades of red tape have dethroned the UK from its rightful place as an industrial superpower"

Read the full column from Gerry McFall and Bill Esterson below 👇
https://t.co/ScUvp0cWUa

[Dan Tomlinson MP @Dan4Barnet]

Robert, the bat tunnel is monument to the decisions, distractions and delays that typified your government's failure to build things in this country.

A golden opportunity of low interest rates was squandered, and we are all so much poorer because of it.

[Resolution Foundation @resfoundation]

Speaking at our event with @HoltecBritain Mayor of South Yorkshire @olivercoppard says that many people don’t understand how much many of the parts are invested in the net zero transition- it’s such a huge opportunity for local employment and growth

[CapX @CapX]

Small modular reactors are essential to meet future energy demand

✍️Will Murray

https://t.co/yhRy4LYehm

[LabourList @LabourList]

🌊 ‘Could Labour end up on the receiving end of the anger they’ve channelled in opposition?'

Will Murray, former adviser to the Environment Agency CEO and the shadow frontbench, on how Labour handles the sewage crisis ✍️

https://t.co/Hr2fisAEv6

[Darren Winter 💚 @DarrenWinter]

Launceston applauds their local MP…

[Matt Smith @Matt4Compton]

I’m delighted to have been selected by Labour Party members in Compton to be their candidate at this May’s local elections!

The Tories have spent decades taking Compton for granted and it is only now - having elected Labour councillors in 2022 and 2023 - that residents here 1/3

[John McTernan @Johnmcternan]

Thoughts on the continued speculation that the Labour Party intends to abandon its commitment to having an industrial strategy. 1/n

[Joss Garman @jossgarman]

As we await the details of Starmer & Reeves big economic u-turn, this is a handy check list of questions from @chrisjvenables at @GreenAllianceUK on what to look for. 🧐

[Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ @LaylaMoran]

Update: a tank has taken position outside the church and the building opposite has been taken. The people inside have died. There are snipers at every window pointing into the church. Still shooting anyone emerging from buildings to use eg toilets. Still no food or water.

[Doug Parr @doug_parr]

UN climate talks focus too much on renewable energy, ExxonMobil chief says

Too much on #renewableenergy for Exxon, for sure. But not too much for the planet https://t.co/MtbMUW52vT

[Marlon Solomon @supergutman]

43 mins witnessing most horrendous anti-Jewish violence and "footage was distressing" is all it's worth. Followed by a full thread sowing a seed of doubt as to what he's just watched and talking about the politics of the event. The massacre itself barely worth a passing reference

[Dov Ben-Shimon @DovBenShimon]

Warning: extremely difficult text to read below.

Last night I surrendered my phone and signed a waiver. And then I sat with a small group and an Israeli military attaché and we watched the 45 minute compilation of Hamas videos from October 7th.

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[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

London Mayor, Sadiq Khan: “I've written to the Foreign Secretary to ask that the UK government supports calls from the World Health Organization and United Nations to establish humanitarian access to and from Gaza to the safe passage of essential supplies and humanitarian access”

[Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan]

I've written to the Foreign Sec about the situation in the Middle East, and to call for urgent action to deliver humanitarian access and support to and from Gaza, echoing the @UN and @WHO.

The Govt must redouble efforts that lead us to a secure Israel and a viable Palestine.

[Benedict Cooney @benedictcooney]

“AI is going to change everything. It should change government.”

Tony on why the UK needs to develop its leadership on AI and make it a major part of our economy

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

If, for any reason, your curiosity is stirred to know more about Russell Brand and what he's been up to of late, do read @prospect_uk's recent profile of him by @sarahmanavis #russellbrand https://t.co/BV4QLp7Vrg

[Matt Smith @Matt4Compton]

Lovely being back on home-turf and knocking on doors in Peverell this afternoon🌹