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[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

This is a "breathing space" policy worth having.

Andy Burnham bringing back a £2 bus fare cap across England to cut travel costs for millions in areas where passengers currently pay up to £3.

https://t.co/AAGYYziW5A

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham pledges to end homelessness in Britain as his first act as PM

"I will soon go through that door behind me and issue my first instruction: to end rough sleeping in our country"

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

Starmer said today in his last PMQs that Labour was "found to be institutionally antisemitic", presumably by the EHRC.

This is a total and complete lie. Straightforward fabrication. As a lawyer, he must know it's a lie.

He really is the most execrably dishonest man, who seems to have forgotten he's been forced out of power discredited by his association with Mandelson, disgraced by his complicity in genocide and so reviled by voters that his Party has to find a new leader from outside of the PLP to try rescue his government from electoral oblivion.

[Katie @wordsparkle]

Good news! Hopefully he’ll be prime minister soon.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham has won the Makerfield by-election

🔴 LAB: 24,937 (+6,725) - 54.8%
➡️ REF: 15,696 (+2,893) - 34.5%
🟣 RES: 3,111 (NEW) - 6.8%
🔵 CON: 997 (-3,382) - 2.2%
🟢 GRN: 308 (-1,468) - 0.7%
🔶 LD: 163 (-2,572) - 0.4%

Changes w/ 2024
58.75% turnout

[Kate Ferguson @kateferguson4]

NEW: Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens than to Reform UK in the local elections, according to YouGov

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The Wes Streeting coup.

Imagine watching Labour's support collapse in urban England to the Greens... and concluding Wes Streeting is the answer.

And although Labour lost far fewer of its voters to Reform, imagine thinking Wes Streeting would win them back, either.

Amazing!

[Colin Wynter KC @QcWynter]

Today will see the most powerful man in the country, the PM, publicly traduce another man in order to save his own skin.
This despite the PM already having claimed responsibility for the relevant cockup but still throwing 2 other blokes under the bus for it.
Undiginifed, ignoble.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Starmer forced through Mandelson's appointment despite the fact he'd been red flagged by the security services. He then lied to the House about it. He then tried to cover up publication of the documents that would have exposed the lies. If that isn't a resigning matter, what is.

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

What a time to be alive.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Trump gave Europe and east Asia a recession, and inflation, and funded Putin to win in Ukraine, and closed down a logistical choke point of global importance for….nothing.

Anyone supporting this in Britain must be literally mad.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Over 1000 civilians dead, and we're letting Trump use UK bases to further his war.

Britain should stand firm against Trump's illegal warmongering, and stop these bombers landing on UK soil.

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

We must hold firm to a simple but vital truth: Opposing a brutal, repressive regime does not oblige us to support an illegal and reckless war.

We can stand unequivocally against the authoritarianism and human rights abuses of the Iranian regime whilst also refusing to back a dangerous, unlawful & ill-thought-out military intervention that will only deepen suffering and conflict.

The lessons of Iraq must never ever leave a Labour MP, or a Labour PM.

[Nicholas Guyatt @NicholasGuyatt]

It's poetic justice that Starmer's most damaging defeat comes to a party which simply ran on the promises he cynically made to win the Labour leadership in 2020

[Katie @wordsparkle]

What a great win for the Greens! 🎉

[Britain Elects @BritainElects]

Gorton and Denton by-election result:

GRN: 40.7% (+27.5)
REF: 28.7% (+14.7)
LAB: 25.4% (-25.3)
CON: 1.9% (-6.0)
LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1)

Green GAIN from Labour.

[Katie @wordsparkle]

@Number10cat Happy anniversary Larry! 😺 Well done for putting up with all these Prime Ministers! 👏

[Harry Horton @harry_horton]

Downing Street’s chief mouser, Larry the Cat, celebrates fifteen years in the job this weekend.

He’s been a symbol of continuity in a time of political turbulence.

Our @itvnews report tonight on when Harry met Larry

[Katie @wordsparkle]

@DiploMog So sorry to hear this. Rest in peace lovely Palmerston.🌈💔

[Nesrine Malik @NesrineMalik]

A collapsed Tory party, no meaningful political opposition, favourable media winds and this government is still falling apart. Who can they possibly blame but themselves?

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"I was lied to, I was lied to"

Keir Starmer complaining about other peoples dishonesty.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has confirmed he was aware of Peter Mandelson's ongoing friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein before he was appointed US Ambassador