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Boringly believes that policy development should be informed by proper research

[James Titcombe @JamesTitcombe]

A really hopeful debate on Baby Loss in Parliament. A sincere thank you @YvetteCooperMP for remembering Joshua & other babies & a big thank you to all MP’s who spoke so passionately. An example of politics at its very best. @MichelleWelshMP @AndyMacNaeMP @Jeremy_Hunt

[UK House of Commons @HouseofCommons]

MPs will be debating:

• General debate on Baby Loss Awareness Week

The subject for this debate was determined by the Backbench Business Committee.

📃 Find out more about what's happening today in the Order Paper: https://t.co/HV7JDPBywP

[Lobby XI @LobbyXI]

We do the conference Double! 🏆🏆

Lobby XI 5-1 @Conservatives

Thanks to the @FA and @iNHouseComms for organising the game, and @BirminghamFA for kindly hosting us

[zoetidman @zoetidman]

"The only extra funding expected in the budget is a one-off temporary payment to help with winter pressures" - The Times reports

https://t.co/A0F3e5HNp4

[BBC Surrey @BBCSurrey]

A lecturer at the University of Surrey says he should start his next in-person lecture sat under his desk after none of his students turned their cameras on for an online class.

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Have to feel for his ministers who are being sent out to defend the half-cocked. It's often a source of irritation that sours relationships between No. 10 and wider government:

https://t.co/1OFiZ1HzGl

[PARLY @PARLYapp]

Good morning. Here is today’s order paper https://t.co/rJgicdGFsf

[Rob B @RobBfromDerby]

“Where’s Vader?”

“Buying diesel off the Rebel Alliance Sir”

[Helen Miller @HelenMiller_IFS]

Final reports of @theIFS annual Green Budget now out!

The punchline: the economic situation has worsened since spring and the main challenge will come from inflation eroding departments’ budgets & squeezing public services rather than falls in ‘headroom’

https://t.co/wLlSuVJHs9

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

Sometimes as a parent you think you will be in screaming soft plays forever but now suddenly every weekend my son demands to go the pub and watch the Premier League and it’s just… amazing.

[Peter Hall @PeteHall86]

Some City fans have started a Poznan pre-kick off, with inflatable bananas in their hands. Such a weird spectacle

[Mark Ogden @MarkOgden_]

Welcome to Anfield….

[Kieran Maguire @KieranMaguire]

Good to see football finance getting into Private Eye

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT

Life expectancy for people with cystic fibrosis going up and up and up and uo

That's what REAL science does.

😍

[Festus Akinbusoye @FestAKINBUSOYE]

A chicken runs faster than the average London bus speed. City Hall still can't understand why 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Exclusive from @oliver_wright

Andy Burnham has rejected a plea from the health secretary for more money for NHS pay in a sign of tension between cabinet ministers before the budget

Yvette Cooper requested hundreds of millions of pounds in extra funding from the Treasury for a pay deal for nurses and to free up resources for frontline care, amid warnings that the government will miss its signature waiting times target

But in a highly unusual move, Burnham and John Healey, the chancellor, have jointly written to Cooper to reject the plea, telling her that the pay rise will have to be funded within the NHS’s existing budget

One Whitehall source said that this meant that existing health budget allocations would now have to be reopened, piling pressure on hospitals as winter approaches

However, another said that the NHS had to “live within its means” and accused the department of failing to make the efficiency savings it had promised when it received a record £29bn funding boost in the last spending review

https://t.co/9Dg84vDrHf

[ESPN UK @ESPNUK]

When Arsenal visited Buckingham Palace back in 2007 😅

Still the only team ever invited to the Palace for tea with the Queen ☕👑

[Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu]

New: One of Britain's biggest housebuilders has given up on the capital.

For @thetimes, I explain why that's a big problem and how we've got into this mess.

https://t.co/jEmtrCaqQU

[Ladbrokes Politics @LadPolitics]

Will @georgegalloway keep his deposit?

We actually laid some money here on YES, having opened at 5/1. This was backed into 11/4 at close of play, with the betting suggesting this could be closer than we initially thought

In the end, a cosy victory for NO backers

[Tony Diver @Tony_Diver]

Exclusive:

Labour mayors are revolting against Andy Burnham’s plan to give them control over water companies.

Several mayors have made it known to No10 that the PM’s plans for regional water boards — revealed in @telegraph and confirmed in his speech last week — would put them “in the firing line” for underperformance.

Sources close to the discussions say some mayors would rather be left out of one of the most politically toxic issues in Britain.

It’s the first sign of trouble for Burnham’s wider devolution agenda on water.

What happens when you give people more power but they don’t want it?

https://t.co/vkUY7gsSdK