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[Helen Cross 🇺🇦 🔶 🇪🇺 #FBPE #FBPPR @Helen4LibDems]

This fact is important and ignored by apologists for Brexit, #LabourMeansLeave, #Tories

🇪🇺 Freedom of movement helps ORDINARY PEOPLE 🇪🇺

The rich have ALWAYS been able to live, work and study abroad.

We MUST protect our 🇪🇺 rights
#StopBrexit #LibDems

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[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

- there’s a bizarre lack of public interest in the rescue/nationalisation of Bulb Energy

- given that the £6bn rescue cash could have been spent on public sector pay rises or NHS or defence budget increases etc

[Jonathan Greenblatt @JGreenblattADL]

For @elonmusk to allow Donald Trump back on Twitter, ostensibly after a brief poll, shows he is not remotely serious about safeguarding the platform from hate, harassment and misinformation.

[Ros Atkins @BBCRosAtkins]

If you're wondering how much this men's World Cup has cost - that's Qatar on the right, the other World Cups since 1990 to the left...

[Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers @tompetty]

The Tom Petty estate and our partners were shocked to find out that Tom’s song “I Won’t Back Down” was stolen and used without permission or a license to promote Kari Lake’s failed campaign.

[Michael Kofman @KofmanMichael]

The first order problem Russia has is simply defense industrial output. Even with increased shifts, missile production is very slow relative to use. The second will be when they burn through stockpiles of components, and find access constrained, the third is likely machine tools.

[Michael Kofman @KofmanMichael]

The issue is not just likely stockpiles, but that these instruments take time to have effects. For narrower defense applications they slow down acquisition & make it costly, but wont necessarily deny access. @maria_shagina makes this argument well in: https://t.co/qOvMUyKY8i

[Michael Kofman @KofmanMichael]

Judging by use rate, the stockpiles of missiles are likely dwindling, but expectations that sanctions might quickly affect Russia's defense industrial production also strike me as unrealistic. Many of the early stories about production line shutdowns did not appear credible.

[Resolution Foundation @resfoundation]

NEW Help today, squeeze tomorrow: Putting the 2022 Autumn Statement in context. Read our overnight of the #AutumnStatement https://t.co/UswCQ3fOrH

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Patrick Vallance on Brexit in 2018:

[Tim Farron @timfarron]

The Conservative Government have totally botched up the transition from the old farm payment scheme to the new one, risking putting thousands of small family farms out of business.

Today, I urged the DEFRA Secretary to pause the phasing out of BPS and protect British farmers.

[John Crace @JohnJCrace]

It’s started. Jacob Rees-Mogg putting the boot into Rishi Sunak on Channel 4 news

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

if this government was really serious about insulating homes it wouldn't be lifting expenditure on this in *squints at notes* three years' time

[Helen Morgan MP 🔶 @HelenMorganMP]

Today's Cost of Conservative Chaos Budget is forcing taxpayers to pay the price of repeated Tory mistakes.

Services have already reached appalling levels and ordinary people are now having to pay more just to stop them from getting even worse.

[Daisy Cooper MP 🔶 @libdemdaisy]

This is a cost of chaos budget, and the biggest fall in living standards is a damning indictment of the Conservative government #autumnstatement2022

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

yes it's an eye-watering Budget but no point in pretending this is happening in isolation rather than the consequence of pandemic, Ukraine, Brexit in no particular order

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

what they're basically doing is saying "hello markets behold our fiscal prudence" while leaving the really painful cuts to the next government

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

- this chart shows the extent to which the fiscal tightening comes *after* the next election

- and that there’s actually a substantial £9.4bn spending surge next year on health and education

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

The sharpest fall in living standards on record will hurt everyone. This is the cost of chaos budget, the cost of Conservatives in power.