22 May 2024 - Rishi Sunak called the general election
28 May 2024 - Cayman Islands based hedge fund Quadrature makes a £4m donation to Labour, the largest ever single donation to the party, and one of the biggest in UK political history
30 May 2024 – The “pre-poll reporting period” began, under which all donations over £11,180 had to be declared weekly rather than the usual quarterly schedule
The general election then took place
Labour did not declare the donation until September
Don’t hear much about that do you
Now today's out the way I'm sure we will be hearing a lot more about how:
- Labour's first two Budgets increased taxes on British workers by £36 billion and £26 billion respectively, pushing the tax burden to an historic high of 38.3% of GDP
- The OBR forecasts 240,000 more people will be unemployed in 2026 than it previously projected - it said this is largely attributable to Labour's employment policies
- The UK unemployment rate was 4.9% as of early 2026, up from 4.6% a year earlier, an increase of 124,000
- Total UK welfare spending this year is estimated at £333.7 billion - up from £315 billion
- The UK is spending £301 million per day just to service its debt interest on Labour borrowing
- Labour promised 1.5 million new homes this parliament. Between 9 July 2024 and 15 March 2026, it had build just 342,100, way off target
- More than 1 million young people aged 16-24 were not in education, employment or training in the first quarter of this year - up 89,000
- The NHS waiting list stands at 7.22 million cases
- When Labour took office in July 2024, just 58.8% of patients were treated within 18 weeks. The target is 92%. By March 2026 it had only reached 65.3%
- Around 100,000 patients are waiting over a year for NHS treatment
- Over the past year, approximately 1.56 million people waited more than 4 hours in A&E - a huge breach of the target
- The outstanding caseload in the Crown Court stands at around 80,200 - the highest level recorded since 2016 and more than double the pre-Covid caseload
- A quarter of all Crown Court cases have been open for more than a year
- There are currently 14,749 sexual offences cases waiting to go to the Crown Court - a 75% increase
- There were approximately 530,640 shoplifting offences recorded in England and Wales over the past year - the highest in the entire time series on record
- There were 41,000 small boat arrivals in 2025
- Of all people who have arrived by small boat since 2018, only around 7,500 (4%) had been returned from the UK by the end of 2025
- Last year the Home Office spent £4 billion on asylum support. This includes £2.1 billion on hotel accommodation alone - around £6 million per day
Today in Parliament, @ClaireCoutinho revealed allegations that instead of fixing problems on the grid, @neso_energy is trying to hide them
She mentioned 23 June. That day we saw persistent low frequency in the evening that was only resolved by cutting exports using Emergency Assistance (it's called "Emergency" Assistance for a reason... It's not a normal action)
@mgshanks said NESO is "robust" an unfortunate echo of the description of the disastrous Post Office Horizon IT system and that the data show the system was secure. But they don't. They show the system was below the safe operational limit for frequency for an extended period
So either he doesn't understand the data and what secure looks like, or NESO hadn't told him either what happened that day. Or he knows and is joining in the fiction that there's nothing to see here
Link to my analysis of the actual 23 June data... See for yourselves if the grid was really secure or if we were just lucky
@energygovuk@Ed_Miliband@ofgem@iconews@afneil@Iromg@AllisonPearson@MerrynSW@EdConwaySky@mattotele@jonathan_leake
https://t.co/2lHOoEFW52
@KenWhistance Ah, we're you traveling in opposite directions? I'd assumed you were traveling in the same direction. If opposing then yes, shoddy behaviour if not enough room for you and them in the remaing road width.
I've decided to leave this platform and my Department will too.
A platform originally designed for free speech and expression now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate.
It isn't healthy for our democracy or our communities and I don’t want to support it.
𝗠𝗲𝘁 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁
The Met Office just found a new record temperature in Norfolk nearly half a degree hotter than their first claim — at a station in someone's back garden yards from a thick wood.
South winds turned the trees and hedges into a sun trap with zero air flow.
It's a Class 5 site worse than the last junk one they used.
They keep these stations running to manufacture the highs they want.
Read the full article:
https://t.co/KaZgPU1Vk1
@ukhomeoffice@ShabanaMahmood You start by referring to 'refugees' and finish referring to 'migrants'.
Illegal migrants have the red carpet rolled out for them and everything paid for by stealing from the tax payers.
This must end.
@MarieTidball Fancy being more worried about 'the rise of Reform' than the escalating infestation of rapey third worlders. Women like you put all women and girls at risk. Ridiculous.