I spent most of my adult life as a European citizen. It meant I could live, work and build a future anywhere from Lisbon to Tallinn without thinking twice.
Brexit tore that away, cheered on by people who now line up behind Putin, Trump and Musk.
If those three are desperate to see the EU weakened, that tells you exactly how valuable it is for democracy, human rights and ordinary people.
Britain should be on Europe’s side, not theirs.
A beautiful celebration of today's England, in particular London and Leeds. I suspect it's an England that the flagwavers and MAGAs either hate or believe doesn't exist.
2025: Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper greets Donald Trump
2017: Yvette Cooper, "We're marching because the most powerful man in the world says its ok to sexually assault women because he is rich and powerful, and we say no way"
"We're marching because we want no girl to ever to lower her sights, be limited in her life because she sees her value of her life through Donald Trump's eyes"
There is no rise in anti-Semitism. There is a rise in the number of people who are very angry at what Israel is doing. Your inability to separate the two is equally problematic.
I created the backdrop artwork for the magnificent @nadineshah Glastonbury performance earlier today. Of course you won’t have seen it on the BBC as they didn’t show any of it.
Polling by LabourList, shared with The Mirror, shows 64.5% of Labour members back a move to the left, with just 1.6% calling for a rightwards shift. https://t.co/BhsjixcqS2
‘Two people with identical conditions could receive support, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, that differs by up to £6,560 a year – purely due to timing. This, we’re told, is compassion.’
A two tier benefit system.
Immoral.
#ScrapTheBill
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Happy Brexit referendum anniversary day. It weakened the economy. Reduced investment. Tanked the pound. Damaged the City. Increased red tape. Increased immigration. Decreased the rights of the young. Staffed billions wasted. But hey - Johnson has PM on his CV and his partner in crime Farage has replaced him as the darling of the right wing rags. So all worth it for the tiny minority who gained out of an act of national self harm
DMA statement on the @DurhamGala and Reform UK.
Reform chose to criticise us publicly for not inviting them to the #DurhamMinersGala. They obviously don’t understand how this works, so we will explain...
Read more:
https://t.co/Ivk3C1HeMO
You can help by using @TrussellUK’s handy tool to email your MP and asking them to call on the Work and Pensions Secretary to rethink the government’s cruel & irresponsible planned cuts to social security
https://t.co/Ktq2b0OlAR
250,000 people – including 50,000 children – will be plunged into poverty as a result of the Gov’ts proposed benefit cuts - on its own analysis
I’m joining @TrussellUK in calling on the government to rethink its cruel & completely irresponsible plan.
This is how you can help
WHY DO WE HAVE TO SETTLE FOR SECOND BEST?
No half-arsed agreement with the EU will restore the amazing advantages that we enjoyed - and celebrated - with free movement.
Let’s stop pissing about and rejoin the SM & CU and get free movement back. Only Starmer is stopping this.
@Tim_Roca@labourlewis@UKLabour@campbellclaret@NickTorfaen@williamkeegan
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Enough. We demand rapid, safe, and unimpeded access to starving civilians in Gaza.
We have a plan. We have thousands of trucks of food at the border. Let us in. Let us work.
https://t.co/J55f8shIEU
Labour peer Lord Dubs, who fled Nazi Germany as a child, tells Channel 4 News ‘This is not the Starmer I know’ after the Prime Minister announced he's discussing whether failed asylum seekers could be deported from Britain to camps in Eastern Europe.
Labour’s defeat in Runcorn was entirely avoidable — and is the direct result of the party leadership’s political choices.
By pushing policies like cuts to disability benefits and scrapping the winter fuel allowance, the leadership is driving away our own voters — and letting Reform squeeze through.
The Labour leadership must urgently change course and govern with real Labour values to deliver the change people are crying out for.
It should start by ditching the plans to cut disability benefits and increase taxes on the wealthiest instead.
If it fails to deliver that real change, things could get far worse, with Reform waiting in the wings. And the consequences of that would be horrific for those our Party exists to represent.