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Please redirect to Bluesky.

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@timfarron 🐘🇪🇺🤔

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@TorstenBell @BBCNews … with the very noteworthy exception of Victoria Derbyshire (👏)

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💔 Surrey County Council has been falling apart under the Conservatives. We can change that if we vote for better next 1st May. https://t.co/wKC7GrJsCl

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[Waverley Lib Dems 🔶🇺🇦 @WaverleyLibDems]

The public inquiry heard, yesterday, of Jeremy Hunt stifling government attempts to compensate those affected by the Post Office scandal 👇
https://t.co/rM4zyagtkN

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[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Spanish state-owned shipbuilder Navantia poised to buy Belfast-based Harland & Wolff.

Political dogma ... UK govts oppose state-ownership but happy for other states to control UK companies.

I wonder what subsidies would be negotiated.
https://t.co/MWxfIEXMKT

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@BWallArthur Nigel also actively supports Donald Trump who’s dedicated to a tariff policy that would harm UK exports to the US and could be even more damaging than Brexit.

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@WaverleyLibDems https://t.co/aTxNkDhyu9

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@WaverleyLibDems @PaulDFollows

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@Jeremy_Hunt

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@PaulDFollows

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@LAMTownsend @Jeremy_Hunt

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[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

So… can anyone name the elephant in the room this budget?

A clue…

(Link —> https://t.co/6FbSijVOg7)

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[Martin Barrow @MartinBarrow]

Councils paid CareTech almost £600 million for the care of children and young people last year, according to newly published accounts. But £1 in every £4 went to investors and lenders, not to children in care. This is how private equity is plundering children’s social care.

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@Channel4News …help it with its dividend payments surely?

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@marcuschown …and it still costs. Costs more in fact…

Much more, and that’s just for what’s “covered”. Premiums, co-pays, deductibles…

All assuming the treatment’s even covered.

[Institute for Fiscal Studies @TheIFS]

📊 #IFSSatStat: Access to a Sure Start centre before age 5 reduced the probability of receiving a criminal conviction by 13%, and custodial sentence by 20%. There was no effect on police cautions, however.

Read our full report here: https://t.co/Gq1iPwp2Ud

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[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🔴 Had the UK stayed in the EU it would have received similar levels of EIB financing as France.

🔴On this assumption, UK annual public investment could have, potentially, been 73% higher had the UK not left the EU.

🔴 In real terms, that amounts to a potential loss of over £44 billion since 2017, assuming the UK had continued to receive similar levels of financing to France.

@shunsakerjr says, “This is far from a trivial amount, especially as the current government attempts to make Brexit work amid a ‘fiscal black hole’. Labour has announced efforts to increase public investment, largely through its National Wealth Fund. But as Ive written elsewhere, the National Wealth Fund is a fairly trivial amount – £7.3 billion over five years (an amount that looks to be cut even further by Rachel Reeves)– compared to the amounts previously invested by the EIB. This comes, as well, amid cuts to some public infrastructure projects already announced by the government, with potentially more to come in the budget October.”

https://t.co/5MHFObSQgp

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@Peston And the largest employer in the UK is?

..the NHS.

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Meanwhile - how many young people can’t work because they can’t drive because they can’t get driving lessons, let alone a driving test, for love nor money?

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

A Youth Mobility Scheme would be great for young people, great for small businesses, and a big step towards repairing the relationship with our European neighbours.

But the Prime Minister’s ruled it out. So today at #PMQs Ed Davey challenged him to think again.

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[Farnham Herald @farnhamherald]

Time runs out on Farnham Town Council in bid to stop Waverley Lane housing scheme https://t.co/Im0QjUdkKw