Whenever you’re losing popularity, just wrap a pen bottom right and it works every time. I’m back on board. Polanski would look paraplegic trying this and Farage’s arthritis would start playing up. Look at my PM effortlessly slotting it away like it’s nothing. Love it.
Oh look. The Green Party in Enfield Council agree to support a minority Tory administration after Labour loses majority.
Central objective: to block the development of the New Town in Crews Hill.
The Greens, working with the Tories: opposing new homes in London.
Marvellous.
@CertifiedOmlet@JoshHousden Exeter
Green : 11,172 (37.0%)
Labour: 6,727 (22.3%)
Reform: 6,719 (22.3%)
Lib Dems: 3,735 (12.4%)
Conservative: 2,435 (8.1%)
Independent: 94 (0.3%)
TUSC: 10 (0.0%)
30,193 votes with an electorate of 67,891 giving a turnout if 44.5%, which I think is quite high for an LE
NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.
First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.
Tice said: "Naturally I am always happy to put things right and if numbers need rechecking, of course I will pay what is owed - be that more or less."
It's another big story from @Gabriel_Pogrund who also revealed last week that Tice's property company failed to pay £91,000 in tax before dividends.
Children in temporary accommodation often travel many miles to school.
We were pressed by @MENnewsdesk - rightly - to do more to help them.
So today we’re confirming that we will bring forward free bus travel for them starting later this year. 🐝
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Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen shared his economic wisdom at the Tory conference. The Conservative party, he said, must be the party of “sound money”.
Could this be the same regional mayor who has presided over the vast transfer of levelling up funds into the pockets of local businessmen, delivering more hot air than investment and, in the process, leaving the regional bodies he has chaired in a parlous financial state?
It certainly could, as our eight-page SPECIAL REPORT sets out in full, financially unsound detail in the new Private Eye, out now.