Matthew Hill

Working for a Labour MP in Parliament 🌹

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

He isn’t … there are plenty of vested interests who want us to believe he is…

[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.

[Sam @SamCKx]

If Keir Starmer does resign, history will look back on his reign and scratch its head as to why the hell he was so hated.

On paper, he's probably delivered more to working British people in such a short time than any PM for decades.

After inheriting an absolute mess: NHS waiting lists fallen. Worker's rights improved. Rail operators nationalised. Improved relations with EU and improved UK's global reputation. Removed non-dom tax status. Halved childcare costs. Boosted state pensions. Lowest homicide rate in 50 years. Lifted 550k children out of poverty. Immigration vastly reduced.

We are in the age of billionaire funded misinformation, whose sole purpose is to topple democratically elected leaders, and insert leadership that favours the wealthy elites over the working people. Looks like the game plan is working...

[JOSEFF C @JoseffCookz]

this is what makes me feel patriotic

[Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman]

Excited to say that’s it my very first day as Head of Publishing Administration for the Office of Budget Responsibility. Exciting things to come!

[Brendan May @bmay]

This is very moving. I’d much rather have this decent, competent and committed public servant with obvious depth of soul and character in charge than the alternative spectrum of options, who range from the crassly venal to the utterly absurd.

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

Angela Rayner is one of the great British political figures of our time.

Generations will grow up with stronger rights at work and in new homes because of her vision and leadership.

I know she will continue to stand at the front of the fight for social justice in this country.

[John L @jwsal]

If Ofcom and the Secretary of State decide to impose Category 1 duties on Wikipedia, it will be one of the biggest and most egregious acts of censorship on free expression in the history of British law.

[Elshad @ElshadKarbasi]

Cameron’s idea of holding a referendum to finish off Farage has turned out to be a stroke of pure genius

Truly one of the greatest political operators of our time

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

Monday's #PoliticsLive

Luke Myer MP, Labour
Joe Robertson MP, Conservative
Ailbhe Rea, Bloomberg UK
Sarah Vine, Daily Mail

12.15 BBC Two https://t.co/OavjKMAxjI

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

England is a beautiful country, rich with pride, potential and creativity.

Today, let’s remember our shared history, our shared inheritance and our shared values.

Happy St. George’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Today, let's hear it for England, and for St. George 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Matthew Hill @matthew_labour]

Could you imagine if the Tories were dealing with this a year ago. They’d have let British steel die, called the election and pretended like more Thatcherism was the solution.

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

Here’s what the people in Scunthorpe think about Labour’s plan for British steel >>>

[Dame Jasvinder Sanghera DBE @Jas_Sanghera_]

If you missed it, here you go. The @churchofengland must start by placing those harmed by them, at the centre.

[Dan Tomlinson MP @Dan4Barnet]

I'm sorry but it won't be.

It will be a day of national humiliation.

What started as a plan to get trains from central London to the North and beyond will be a shuttle from Birmingham to a West London building site.

It will be a monument to our failure, not our success.

[Dawn Butler ✊🏾💙 @DawnButlerBrent]

Important for me to speak in the @HouseofCommons debate on Church of England safeguarding led by my colleague Luke Myer.

Independent safeguarding is of paramount importance. Survivors of abuse had to relive it over & over again - an establishment where people should feel safest.

[Dame Jasvinder Sanghera DBE @Jas_Sanghera_]

Watching live House of Commons amendment debate led by Luke Myer MP. Important debate that speaks to safeguarding in @churchofengland Importantly, those survivors suffering due to the lack of action & support, since the disbanded of the first Independent Safeguarding Board.

[PARLY @PARLYapp]

Commons now on the adjournment debate. Safeguarding in the Church of England - Luke Myer.

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

Lovely moment as @angelaeagle recalls telling John Prescott, when he was her boss, that she was going to ‘come out’

“Tell me something I didn’t already know, love!” he replied - then gave her a hug