Peter Borsada 🌹🇺🇦

[Claire Hazelgrove MP @CHazelgroveMP]

Everyone should have access to excellent palliative care, and there is important work to do on this. I fully support this.

I am also pleased to see Andy Burnham driving forward our manifesto commitment on a National Care Service at pace.

At the same time, as so many of us have harrowingly experienced with loved ones, even the very best palliative care cannot remove all intolerable pain and make the end of life, and death, bearable.

These are not mutually exclusive policies.

The harmful status quo for a number of terminally ill adults is to either suffer longer and intolerably at the end of their lives, or to feel their only way to avoid a painful death or a loss of dignity is to take their own life alone, without their loved ones around them, given the law.

They matter.

Through the 2024 Bill’s debates and votes, Parliament has been catching up with the debate long happening in the country.

And since then, already, many more of us have seen through our own experiences why this matters so much.

I really don’t want the same for others in future too, where the individual’s choice would be different.

This is naturally a complex and emotive issue, with differing views, which I respect.

It is right to acknowledge that any decision here is an active choice with real impact, including for this group.

That’s why continuing this debate - to the fullest - matters so much, and that we take a decision in Parliament on this Bill, with its important multi-year implementation timeline.

This wider and vital work on care highlighted today should of course happen too. It’s not an either/or here.

The realities for different people with varying terminal conditions are not identical, even when there’s nothing we’d wish for more than for that to not be the case, and for all intolerable pain to be possible to palliate.

Choices can differ too. All are important.

(I don’t usually turn my comments off, but I’ve found this topic to elicit extreme abuse rather than considered discussion on X, so I will do here.)

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

Our latest voting intention sees a cross over. Labour move ahead by 4. Their first lead since March 2025 & highest share since Nov 24

🌹 LAB 28% (+4)
⏩ REF 24% (-2)
🌳 CON 22% (nc)
🔶 LIB DEM 12% (+1)
🟢 GREEN 8% (-3)
🟡 SNP 2% (nc)

N = 2061| Dates 24-27/7| Change w 22/7

[Labour Press @labourpress]

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[Peter Borsada 🌹🇺🇦 @PBorsada]

@CHazelgroveMP You’re brilliant Claire and I know you’ll be back in Government soon

[Robin Hawkes @robhawkes]

So we improve the forecasts and move on… 🤷‍♂️

[Peter Borsada 🌹🇺🇦 @PBorsada]

@Imogenlemon02 People voting for outcomes that we don’t like is not a reason to not do local democracy. IMO a real issue with the powerlessness of local gov. is that voters don’t see any real stakes when voting for protest candidates like Jenkyns. Real power = real responsibility.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

I'm sure @katz_morris is right that it's good politics to say life has been getting steadily worse for the past seventeen years, but I don't believe it's actually true that people were better off on average in 2009.

[electionmapsuk @electionmapsuk]

🌍 | Lowest Green Party vote share in any poll since October 2025.

[electionmapsuk @electionmapsuk]

Grays Riverside (Thurrock) Council By-Election Result:

🌹 LAB: 30.2% (+3.8)
➡️ RFM: 28.1% (-5.1)
🌍 GRN: 27.5% (-1.9)
🌳 CON: 14.1% (+3.1)

Labour GAIN from Reform UK.
Changes w/ 2026.

[electionmapsuk @electionmapsuk]

Grays Town (Thurrock) Council By-Election Result:

🌹 LAB: 37.0% (+5.3)
➡️ RFM: 27.0% (-7.8)
🙋 Ind: 13.0% (New)
🌳 CON: 12.3% (+1.3)
🌍 GRN: 8.8% (-7.3)
🔶 LDM: 1.9% (-4.5)

Labour GAIN from Reform UK.
Changes w/ 2026.

[Peter Borsada 🌹🇺🇦 @PBorsada]

@Dan4Barnet @hmtreasury @cabinetofficeuk Really fantastic appointment! Glad to see you staying in government, Dan.

[Peter Borsada 🌹🇺🇦 @PBorsada]

@PreetKGillMP Thank you for your service Preet 🙏

[Karin Smyth @karinsmyth]

Very pleased to have been reappointed as Minister of State in the Department of Health.

I look forward to continuing the work of rebuilding our NHS to make it fit for the future.

[Peter Borsada 🌹🇺🇦 @PBorsada]

@seandsmyth 😄

[Peter Borsada 🌹🇺🇦 @PBorsada]

Fab news!

[UK Prime Minister @10DowningStreet]

Heidi Alexander has been reappointed as Secretary of State for Transport @transportgovuk.

[Ed Dorrell @Ed_Dorrell]

So @bphillipsonMP is no longer education secretary.

A few reflections from me.

(I've worked with her and her team closely for some time.) 1/6

[Home Office @ukhomeoffice]

🚨 Knife murders in England and Wales are at the lowest level in a decade.

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Thatcher's legacy is Britain's economy being the weakest of our neighbours and our country close to separation. I'm not sure Burnham's plan to undo her worst excesses is great, but at least he's diagnosed the problem, and has some good ideas. https://t.co/iXKvelFhq8

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

Tonight I heard a failed and desperate president who as war spirals and prices rise is as always focused on his grievances, his shame, and above all his fear of the accountability that will come with defeat.

I also heard a president signaling his unmistakable intent to attack these elections and our voting rights, just as he tried to throw out our votes and seize the presidency in 2020.

Our answer will be overwhelming.

Across Georgia a wave of defiance is building to rebuke him so decisively that no president ever again dares such brazen corruption and abuse.

The power of the presidency is nothing compared to the power of the people.

[Karin Smyth @karinsmyth]

Thanks to Labour colleagues and Opposition for work over recent weeks in Committee scrutiny for the NHS Modernisation Bill. Pleased to have completed this evening as Parliament rises for the summer recess.