Ellen Hobson

Acting up

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.

Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.

Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.

Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:

• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.

• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.

• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.

• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.

• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.

• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.

• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.

• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.

• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.

• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.

• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.

• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.

• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.

• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.

• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.

• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.

• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.

• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.

• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.

• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.

• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.

• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.

• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.

• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.

People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.

[Erdmute Wendlinger @wendlingere49]

If they get Burnham they will bring him down in months,& then they'll get their General Election.
Bannon & the American Tech Bros need a decent Party out of power & DISGRACED.FINISHED OFF. Then Their Trump/ Farage plan can come to power.Then watch out.
Farage will destroy UK

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Labour loses my vote if they don’t stop pfaffing with the leadership nonsense. There’s work to do and right now @Keir_Starmer seems to be the only one who gets that.

[Ellen Hobson @ellenhobson]

@DeborahMeaden @Keir_Starmer Hear hear!

[IPPR @IPPR]

Our latest research, featured in the @guardian, finds young men are not overwhelmingly supporting the right - they remain the least likely cohort of men to vote for right-wing parties. Politics should stop treating them as lost to the extreme right.

https://t.co/ti6nxNzj7i

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

It's not just the exploitation of a tragedy.

JD Vance's picture of Britain - where migrants have led to a crime surge - is the opposite of the truth.

https://t.co/y5El5FUj7v

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

The media has convinced you that Keir Starmer is the worst Prime Minister in history. They're lying to you.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: The Irish PM defends Keir Starmer as Donald Trump repeats he is "not Winston Churchill"

"Starmer has done a lot to reset the Irish-British relationship. I do believe he is a very earnest person who you have a capacity to get on with"

[Ellen Hobson @ellenhobson]

@johnsuchet1 Thank you 💚

[Ellen Hobson @ellenhobson]

@lisagoldapple @MatadorNetwork Actually the holiday was also kind of great. I think it gets better with age, like a fine wine

[Ellen Hobson @ellenhobson]

@lisagoldapple @MatadorNetwork Oh yeah, I forgot about the food poisoning, cos it actually wasn't the worst thing about the holiday

[CAL ROSCOW @calroscow]

The generation who feel like they fought in a war, but have never actually fought in a war, are suggesting we need to go and fight in a war.

(Just in case being an adult in the most prosperous part of the 20th century, and being able to buy a house, wasn't enough for them.)

[Ellen Hobson @ellenhobson]

@CarrickJo Wow, what an amazing career!

[Ellen Hobson @ellenhobson]

@benwillbond Get well

[Ellen Hobson @ellenhobson]

@alionabaranova1 Cool

[Ellen Hobson @ellenhobson]

Please @BorisJohnson

[Peter Egan @PeterEgan6]

.@rickygervais @PenFarthing @Nowzad @domdyer70 @marcthevet @BorisJohnson @DominicRaab @DrBrianMay Peter Egan: My plea to rescue the helpless animals and heroic vets trapped by the terror of the Taliban https://t.co/9KVW8qJo4A via @mailplus

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

URGENT HELP NEEDED! @PenFarthing and @Nowzad need your help to raise £200K to enable them to evacuate his staff & rescue animals from the desperate situation in #Kabul.

Please donate if you can: https://t.co/QZI5ca4tnq #OperationArk @RickyGervais

[Pen Farthing @PenFarthing]

Please keep emailing your MP and @BorisJohnson @10DowningStreet Our mission has expanded - we need support & funds. Going FB live to explain briefly. We need safe travel corridors to airport - actual Embassy staff to talk to. Time is running out. @domdyer70 @BBCBreaking @SkyNews

[Ellen Hobson @ellenhobson]

Fantastic to hear @bbcproms @TheCBSO @BBCRadio3 throwing a spotlight on composer and conductor Ruth Gipps. I discovered her for the first time this year. Long overdue. #BBCProms #femalecomposers