Helen Whately. Shadow Secretary of State for Transport.
"Scrutiny is essential to good government, and I look forward to providing it".
She might want to scrutinise her expenses more. £39,000 per year in rent expenses. Yet she lives only 50 miles away from parliament.
#C4News
Rachel Reeves: "The cost to the taxpayer of Covid fraud is estimated at £7.2bn. Every cheque signed by Rishi Sunak...We'll appoint a Covid corruption commissioner, a hit squad of investigators...to take the fraudsters to court...We want that money back."
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, "The Conservatives ran the Rwanda scheme for 2.5 years and sent 4 volunteers and hundreds of millions. I will be auditing all of the details"
"We are putting that money instead on border security, and today we are launching a new border security command in order to strengthen Britain's border security, where we have been let down by the Tories for too long"
After 14 years in power, Britain's Conservative Party is out.
The fictional newscaster @JonathanPieNews offers his balanced, professional — and definitely not celebratory — take on the new prime minister. https://t.co/e1I9GAhyXP
“I understand that a strong woman standing up to you is met with such reticence,” replies Jess Phillips to a group of men intimidating after her win.
Jess then tells of how a young woman delivering leaflets yesterday was filmed and screamed at by an older man, who then slashed her tyres.
Huge respect to Jess.
This is the Covid Memorial wall in London. It took me a full 10 minutes to walk its length in 2022.
Then, there were 197,635 Covid deaths.
Now, there are >230k. Boris Johnson’s unforgivable legacy.
Then, we had no power.
Now, finally, we do.
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