David Minchella🔶

Former SBC Cllr Bishopsgarth and Elm Tree 2019-2023 @StocktonLibDems. Trainee Clinical Psychologist RT =/= endorsement

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Lib Dems offer alternative to extremes of Reform and Greens, Davey says https://t.co/b9MUVoiEDu

[Election Maps UK @ElectionMapsUK]

Central (Hull) council election result

LDM: 31.3% (+5.0)
LAB: 28.4% (-33.4)
RFM: 23.2% (+23.2)
GRN: 13.4% (+13.4)
CON: 3.6% (-4.5)

Lib Dem GAIN from Labour
Changes w/ 2023.

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

Lib Dems are on a record-breaking winning streak, heading for an historic eighth consecutive set of local election gains and on track to beat Labour and the Conservatives once again.

We’ve recorded stonking results in Stockport and Portsmouth, taking control of both councils.

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

We’ve made significant gains from Sutton to Stockport, and it’s clear we are winning off both the Conservatives and Labour.

Liberal Democrats work incredibly hard on the ground, and we believe the best is still to come tonight.

@libdemdaisy

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"We Liberal Democrats are absolutely raring to go."

Lib Dems deputy leader Daisy Cooper says the party is 'hungry' as election results come in.

Read the latest on our live blog ➡️ https://t.co/t1Te0mzVOo

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

[Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak]

Lib Dems
'The Liberal Democrats are on course for an historic eighth consecutive year of local election gains. This follows a massive ground operation which saw activists knock on over 3 million doors across England, double the number reached during last year’s campaign.'

[Cowboy Tcherno Bill @RudiGeerts]

“It was not Hitler or Himmler who deported me, beat me, killed my family members. It was the milkman, the neighbor, the shoemaker, the doctor, who were given a uniform and believed they were the superior race.”

Karl Stojka, Roma Auschwitz survivor

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

We know the threat Reform poses – to our communities, our democracy and our precious liberal values. We know where their divisive, destructive brand of politics could lead.

Other parties can't or won't stand up to them. It's up to us to be the antidote to Reform's hate and division.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Ed Miliband has privately told Keir Starmer that he should consider setting out a timeline for his resignation after the local election results

[@thetimes]

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

Trump responds to strength.

Working with our European allies will make us stronger, and that’s the action our government should take.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war."

Watch Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize speech, where he accepted the award on behalf of the American civil rights movement: https://t.co/S5fRlksKZ5

#MLKDay

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Trump is acting like an international gangster.

The Prime Minister has tried appeasing him for 12 months and has failed. It's time we finally stood up to him and united with our European allies to make him back down.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Statement from the Nobel Foundation

One of the core missions of the Nobel Foundation is to safeguard the dignity of the Nobel Prizes and their administration. The Foundation upholds Alfred Nobel’s will and its stipulations. It states that the prizes shall be awarded to those who "have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind," and it specifies who has the right to award each respective prize. A prize can therefore not, even symbolically, be passed on or further distributed.

For additional information, please refer to the Norwegian Nobel Committee: https://t.co/HqL1ZR8Bos

[Denmark MFA 🇩🇰 @DanishMFA]

Joint statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom 👇

[Peter A Smith @PeterAdamSmith]

First interview with new Reform leader in Scotland was a bit unusual…

We asked if he’d repeat his party’s campaign claim that Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar had said he would prioritise the Pakistani community. Other politicians condemned it. What about Malcom Offord?

Reform, of course, pride themselves as being the party of free speech.

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

We need to sanction the awful regime in Iran and freeze Iranian assets in London.

But the world would take Donald Trump's concerns over the brutal murder of protesters in Iran more seriously if his government stopped murdering protesters in Minnesota.

[Lib Dem Media Team @LibDemMedia]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery x

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

One more rat is leaving the sinking ship - the Conservatives are out of ideas and Reform only have bad ones.

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Law to come into force in UK this week making it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, after concerns over Grok AI tool
https://t.co/Ihuiu6VLXR