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[Department of Health and Social Care @DHSCgovuk]

"We are going in the right direction and we must not ease our foot off the pedal for a second.”

@jamesmurray_ldn spoke @ConfedExpo about working with NHS staff to modernise the NHS for the future.

Read his speech in full: https://t.co/zFj1ROZW1z

[Colin Harvey @cjhumanrights]

Together Against Hate ❤️

[Filly ☘️ @fillypepper]

@BBCBreakfast Defence budget has risen from £54.2 billion to £66 billion, plus an immediate £5 billion injection. Further rises committed-£270 billion across the current parliament.

We are one of the highest spending NATO members in terms of % of GDP.

Past governments hold your hands up.

[Professor Christopher Painter @PrfChrisPainter]

A very welcome piece from @RSylvester1 demonstrating how far-right culture war claims are driven by ideology not by evidence. The real threat to civilisation is when we allow these ideologues to erase the truth.

https://t.co/gTxxnWs34G

[The Jo Cox Foundation @JoCoxFoundation]

"We would do well to reflect on her words and especially her character"

@AndrewmitchMP, Conservative MP for Sutton Coldfield, shares his memories of working with Jo.

Find out more about our work and how you can get involved:

🔗https://t.co/8KsS2RRZS6

[Amnesty Int'l NI @AmnestyNI]

Belfast anti-racism rally to take place after days of disorder in city

Together Against Hate: Saturday 1pm - Belfast City Hall

'Racists are a minority here and that their hatred is opposed by people from every corner of this city.'

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Who do you think Nigel Farage will put first?

A) Working people

B) The offshore crypto billionaire who gave him £5 million

Sign our petition now and join thousands of others to stop the steal and protect working people's rights

https://t.co/ijbnuOP3jy

[Liam Byrne MP @liambyrnemp]

380,000 UK businesses need finance to grow. We have £3 trillion in pension assets and £264 billion in unused capital sitting idle.

Our new Investing in the UK Economy report sets out how to connect them: https://t.co/iwr7FvN7G9

[Calvin Bailey MBE MP @CalvinBailey]

We must name what is happening in Belfast: it is organised racist violence which tramples the wishes of victims and their families.

National security requires us not just to deal with the perpetrators, but with those who fuel it, often aligning with enemies abroad to do so. 👇

[Jake 🌹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ToryWipeout]

Not many ministers would resign after a £5bn budget increase and more coming imminently.

[Scotland National Team @ScotlandNT]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏡 Scotland House, presented by M&S Food is nearly ready to go!

Our Scotland House Host Natalie Pike went behind the scenes to take a look at preparations.

Join us tomorrow from 11am, at The Anchor in Charlestown for our first Big Scotland House Party!

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

In Belfast and Southampton the racist mobs are are not defending the victims. They are completely contradicting the wishes of the victims' families, for their own vile agenda.

Do not use our tragedy to fuel violent protests, says family of Belfast victim
https://t.co/q9nQ10lrw6

[Emilio Morenatti @EmilioMorenatti]

Me gustaria contactar con los padres de este niño para regalarle esta foto. Me ayudais a moverla? El papa León XIV bendice a un niño en el Estadio Olímpico Lluís Companys de Barcelona, España, el martes 9 de junio de 2026. Gracias....

[David Lawrence @dc_lawrence]

What should Labour's political economy be?

In my contribution to "hot essay summer", I argue that Labour should define itself as pro-work, and anti-slop.

Good work is productive, the best that slop can be is distracting. Slop gives the impression of frenetic activity, but without creation of real value.

This turns out to be a pretty good description of Britain's economy. We've created an economy of rent-seekers and extractors rather than risk-takers and builders.

I look at:
🍬 tax-avoiding American candy stores that crowd Oxford Street
📖 the 44,000 page planning document for Sizewell C (33 times longer than War and Peace)
🚄 the unbuilt railway that cost £100 billion
🏦 the cheapening of designs in our public spaces
🏗️ "fire safety" rent seeking that is stopping homes being built

The common theme is slop. To escape this, Labour needs a plan to take on slop-generating tech companies, but also other rent-seekers throughout the economy that have made it impossible (or very costly) to build anything of value.

Labour was founded to represent workers in the tangible economy: those who were physically building things. Today, 37% of British workers do not believe that their job makes a “meaningful contribution to the world”. Whoever leads Labour must have an answer to this, and it begins with tackling slop.

Read the full piece here:

https://t.co/LmzGxwWuaI

[The National @ScotNational]

It is difficult to imagine a more absurd sight than thuggish men brandishing the Union Jack while torching Belfast and demanding that foreigners leave Ireland, writes Kelly Given ✍️

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

The many takes flying around about John Healey, resignation gossip and national security spending miss a fundamental point.

In Finland, where people have a strong social safety net and a real sense of shared national purpose, around 80% say they would be prepared to defend their country. In the UK, that figure is closer to 30%.

That should tell us something.

Until we change the financial architecture of our economy and bring the essentials of life out of the grip of corporate extraction and into public ownership, we will always be told to choose between bombs and butter.

But the reality is we need both.

Modern hybrid warfare means every public service is part of our national resilience. Energy, water, housing, health, transport, food security and social care are not separate from defence. They are defence.

If we want people to defend the country, we have to build a country people believe is worth defending. A thriving state. A fair economy. A society where everyone feels they have a stake.

I spoke about this on Peston on Monday night.

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"It's Keir Starmer who has lead this significant increase already that we've seen in defence spending... Keir Starmer has been leading on the world stage."

Claire Hazelgrove MP defends the Prime Minister's record following the resignation of two defence ministers.

#Newsnight

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Elon Musk is set to become a trillionaire within the next few months and a Karl Marx quote comes to mind.

"One day there will be trillionaires, but you will still have nothing."

Amazing powers of prediction.

[Mary Lefteris 🌹Labour @MaryLefteris]

@Dave4YP @Keir_Starmer @AndyBurnhamGM @YPCambridge @CambridgeGreens @thisisyourparty @cambs_socialist In less than 2 yrs Starmer has picked up a broken economy where every public service has been underinvested and tried to improve it. He has repaired broken relationships overseas. He has introduced tons of legislation and has brought in policies that help the less fortunate.

[Shanice 😈 🇯🇲 🇵🇸 @Shanice_OM]

What happened in Belfast was not spontaneous or organic. It was planned, organised far-right violence that *police had been warned about for months*. For months they circulated addresses to target... and waited for an incident to exploit: https://t.co/F7pRWXzcZ2