"A leftier space" for the Tories to occupy Justin Webb? Surely you mean slightly less extreme right. #r4today

Labour could use the pathetic squabbling between Jake Berry and Steve Baker on #newsnight in their next party political broadcast.

Little Bobby Jenrick Tik Toks for his supper What shall we give him? A bung from a property developer and some Ozempic. How shall he cut it? He'll try to outshine Badenoch by moaning about "weird" Turkish barbers, And then bungle his defection to Reform because he's an inept banana. #bbcpm

Rees-Mogg being his usual languid self. No point defecting to Reform, we'll merge sooner or later anyway. #wato

Where's the evidence for Vicky Young's assertion that water prices in the UK have been low until recently? According to this they've been about average compared with other European countries. #politicslive smartwatermagazine.com/news/locken/...

You can't put one of Farage's fag papers between the policies of Reform and the Tories now. The only difference is that Reform would be unlikely to have a black leader any time soon. #politicslive

Very restrained of the Lady Mayor of London not to say that the chief culprits of painting London as a crime scene are Reform and their side kicks, the Tories. #r4today

What nerve for Steve Baker to moan about public money being spent on the Town of Culture when the Tories gave billions to their mates for useless contracts during Covid. #politicslive

I think we can tell from the pause when Amol was asked "have you visited your local library recently?" that the answer was very much no. He's missing out. #r4today

The most irritating thing about the digital ID U-turn for me is the idea that 65 year olds wouldn't know how to download an app. All the 65 year olds I know would have no problem at all in doing that. Perhaps it's just Starmer who needs an IT lesson. #r4today

Sadiq Khan should take Trump's silly insults as a badge of honour. #r4today

Went to see Hamnet on Friday. It is a great film - once you get past the earth mother giving birth on her own in a forest nonsense. #r4today

Careful Laura Trott it sounds like you're actually supporting government policy. That's surely against Tory Party rules. #r4today

Question for Farage on next week's #bbclaurak: Do you think Russian agents like yourself should have a role in British politics?

Nice of Gove to acknowledge that his government was responsible for what he calls the "catastrophic decline if our military force". Oh no wait. #r4today

Interesting that the Washington Post guy on #r4today talks about swearing, but doesn't say that was only from the ICE agents, and says the women were sarcastic but doesn't pass judgement on the ICE agents' words or actions. Maybe find another commentator for balance please BBC.

Would Grok allow Musk to be clad in a bikini I wonder? If not, why not? #r4today

Supermarkets report good results. Almost as though pay rises are good for the economy. #r4today

This chat about fish on #r4today is a load of old rollmops.

According to a commentator on #r4today the ICE action in Minneapolis was started because of fraud in the Somalian community. When will they be going after fraud in the Trump family?

Ah, this tribute to Martin Chivers is lovely for us Spurs fans. Please mention the Chivers long throw. #r4today

According to Pat McFadden it's up to the alleged law breaker to tell the law enforcers whether they've broken the law. Good luck trying that with the Met Police! #r4today

I am one of those Londoners who has enjoyed free travel since i was 60. I'm almost gleeful that I upset that miserable 45 year old so much. #bbcpm

Kemi Badenoch must believe in fairies and Father Christmas. Everything she says indicates that she does. #r4today

The Hamnet film. Couldn't anyone be bothered to do a Warwickshire accent? #r4today

Can we have the guy moaning about Canterbury lampposts back to cheer us up please? Preferably with an interviewer pointing out the 50% cut in local council funding, but just an easy local moan will do compared with the international news. #r4today

It would be handy for Trump to get involved in a war so he's got an excuse not to hold elections wouldn't it? #wato

This Ovenden guy assumes civil servants aren't ordinary people. Given what most of them earn and where they live, they're much more ordinary than the likes of Ovenden. They should be listened to by governments. #r4today

Other than an attempt to get younger listeners, I don't see the point of this babies project on #r4today. It would be better as a standalone programme.

What a shame Farage doesn't have dual citizenship (as far as we know). Yaxley Lennon on the other hand... #wato

Farage is lucky there wasn't social media when he was at Dulwich College isn't he? Currently it's his word against 20 odd fellow pupils and a teacher I think. #r4today BBC News - Egyptian dissident sorry for tweets as Tories push for deportation from UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ah, that's why we have our first outdoor sauna in Walthamstow. First dates for all the young folk. Good on them! #r4today

Lovely to have a mini 'In Our Time' with Melvyn. Hope we continue to hear him on the radio. #r4today

No push back at all from Justin Webb to this Trump supporter's anti "woke" nonsense. Meanwhile people can't visit the US if their social media doesn't suck up to the great leader. #r4today

Farmers need to get with the programme on animal welfare so the government is doing them a favour with these changes. Otherwise there'll be more young people like my son who become vegan having looked at how animals are treated in food production. #r4today

Maybe we need to introduce some age discrimination legislation if we want people to work into older age. Where I worked age discrimination was rife. It was a London local authority run by Labour. #r4today

What thoughtful articulate young people. #r4today

Can someone tell me what the pay offer to resident doctors is? I'm not finding it on the BBC or BMA websites. Would like to know if it is below inflation/by how much. #r4today

Hooray for the return of Erasmus. Any chance the students who missed out on the opportunity could get a slight decrease in the interest rate on their student loans as a tiny bit of compensation? #r4today

Wonder if this will be covered on #r4today www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The BBC should not settle out of court. And if Trump wins, licence fee payers should have the choice of whether to pay towards any settlement. Can't imagine many - apart from Reform voters - would be willing. #r4today

If Lucy Powell wants to improve unity in the Labour Party maybe don't start with "Great to be here in the North". Presumably they do want to keep voters in the Midlands and the South. #r4today

If only everyone could get the kind of cancer care that the King gets. #r4today

Clearly these Lords talking about the medical team around the dying person haven't seen 3 different GPs in the past few months giving sometimes contradictory advice. I have. #r4today

Americans work longer and live shorter lives than Europeans and yet Evan Davis thinks we should aspire to their economic model. I suggest he goes there if he likes it so much. #wato

Just back from a blood test at UCLH. No-one at the entrance giving out masks. Very few staff wearing them. Next problem will be a huge rise in staff sickness to add to the surge in patients with flu. No lessons learned from the pandemic. I wore my FFP2, should be fine. #wato

Responding to calls to wear masks in the flu outbreak Badenoch says she's "still slightly traumatised" by mask wearing. Pathetic - and irresponsible from a public figure. This is the same Badenoch whose response to the Budget was a personal attack on Rachel Reeves for flakiness. 🤷 #r4today

Just tell Gorka to f* off and do us all a huge favour. #politicslive