🚨 BREAKING: Rough sleeping will be decriminalised tomorrow as the Government repeals the 1824 Vagrancy Act
It means police won’t be able to move on homeless people sleeping or begging on the streets
🧵There’ll likely be a rush to call British public ungovernable in the wake of Starmer’s resignation. But blaming the voters is a cop out, and imo the reason for 5 PMs in 6 years is that all of them stuffed up in avoidable ways. Going through them:
We are banning social media access for under 16s.
These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life.
I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back.
Beth Rigby, "You say that you won't compromise on the happiness of children, but you also know US big tech will hate this ban"
"Are you concerned about how President Trump might react to this when you see him at the G7 and the consequences for the UK?"
Keir Starmer, "This is about fighting for what we think is right"
"I'm a fan of tech and AI, I think it has huge capabilities to change our world for the better, that's why I made a pro AI and tech speech at London Tech Week"
"I do not accept that you can't be pro tech and AI and at the same time say we must protect our children"
"The innovation is incredible in tech and AI. Don't tell me that's impossible for those innovators to devise a way to protect our children"
"You can be pro AI and tech which I am, but also pro protecting our children which I am"
You’re going to see a lot in your X timeline about how the social media ban is unworkable and illiberal - and it will be one the most obvious examples of how social media skews debate.
But it will be one of the most popular things the government is doing
https://t.co/fFfsUnyCwN
In a sports bar in Kansas City where a single Curaçao fan is sat on his own YELLING after the smallest nation ever to qualify for a World Cup equalise against Germany. Sensational
Vance vigorously supported the mass pardoning of the January 6 rioters - nearly 100 of whom have already been arrested for other crimes. And he lectures Britain - a country with a fraction of his nation's per capita homicides.
💷 Reform UK is raising millions more than other political parties from private donations, bringing in £9m largely from cryptocurrency billionaires in first three months of year.
Nigel Farage’s party took £3m donation from Christopher Harborne, a British-Thai dual citizen, and £4m from Ben Delo, who is relocating to UK from Hong Kong.
Between them, the pair’s donations account for a third of all private money flowing into politics in first quarter.
Reform’s fundraising far outstripped Labour and the Tories, which each raised about £4m from private donations.