The rail fair freeze will benefit commuters across Essex. Check out the savings 👇

Freezing rail fares will save Essex commuters hundreds of pounds next year, helping thousands of people.

🚆 Rail fares frozen for the first time in 30 years! Essex commuters will save hundreds of pounds - real help with the cost of living. Labour is delivering fairer, cheaper travel. As Mayor, I’ll go even further with better, greener public transport for Essex.

I’m honoured to be selected as Labour’s candidate to be the first ever Mayor of Greater Essex in 2026 🌹 Thank you to everyone who supported me — your trust means everything. Now it’s time to get to work.

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What a beautiful accent 😂 🇬🇧

Is Jack still up there? #TheTraitorsUK

Tory attempt to fundraise through grooming scandal petition exposed - 'breathtaking'

STORY Kemi Badenoch hasn't actually met any grooming gang survivors - and doesn't think she needs to www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

New series of The Traitors has a new plot twist

Successive governments have failed on social care. It’s not a shortage of good ideas that’s the problem, but a shortage of good politics. Today that changes with Louise Casey. Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how we’ll work together to fix it 👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New Years Honours 2025: The 31 Essex people recognised in King Charles III's third list #Colchester #Essex 🔗: https://www.essexlive.news/ne...

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Excellent. Saves having to pay the council to collect it 👍

📣 New report and research 📣 We’ve published ‘Mayoral Matters’ looking at public attitudes to mayors and devolution in the parts of England which have actually experienced it. www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/... 🧵 below with my five takeaways. [1/10]

Everything you need to know about how bad Kemi Badenoch is at PMQs

So it turns out they spent £715 million on sending a grand total of FOUR volunteers to Rwanda. For comparison, this is more than you could expect to spend on building an entire brand new hospital in the UK

It's astonishing in how many areas the last government's response to difficult problems was just to abandon governing: to stop processing asylum claims, stop setting realistic budgets, ignore critical warnings from the prison system, and ultimately scuttle the ship by bringing forward the election.

This is basically exactly the same agenda that just got them thrashed at the last election by Labour.

Kemi Badenoch doesn’t seem to understand how many (real) people who voted in July would actually be really annoyed about another election. I suspect her Party workers and fundraisers would also be less than impressed.

Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards." Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂

A reminder of what Kemi Badenoch said just a few years ago... "It is always a positive thing to see engagement in politics but we run the country based on elections and not petitions..." www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/news/2188696...

Still looking to speak to housing association board members this week, if there are any on here #ukhousing

This is the best way to get others, esp journalists/politicians to join. It’s not necessarily ideological, it’s practical: a far better social media experience/way more useful for work.

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

Another bombshell from the PM as he refuses to call a general election four months after the last one on the basis of an online petition. Westminster on the brink.

Tackling the epidemic of violence against women and girls is critical, and will require a huge cultural shift in our society. Men: it’s not on women to solve this problem. We need to take a stand. To do the work. And to hold ourselves and each other accountable. #WhiteRibbonDay

Red fox in winter 🦊🌨️

I didn’t do a lot of it over the last 14 years but I did go on the odd protest and sign a petition here and there. I don’t think it achieved anything. FYI just in case anyone might be doing any of that right now.

A positive weekend out speaking to people across Colchester about how Labour is fixing the foundations of our country. 🌹 🇬🇧

excellent reporting by George Greenwood at the Times www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

I’ve just been watching so many great clips of John Prescott. I’m glad he’s getting the recognition he deserves. He will be so missed.

It's full steam ahead on our Warm Homes Plan: 🏡 Up to 300,000 households to benefit from home upgrades ✅ Removing the 1m rule for heat pump installations ⬆️ £295m boost to the Boiler Upgrade Scheme next year 💰 Plans to make boilers and heat pumps more efficient to cut bills

Such sad news that John Prescott has died. A giant of the 1997 Labour Government and an incredible campaigner across the country during those years who inspired so many of us. Rest in peace.

A £500 million package of support will be available to vulnerable households this winter. I encourage anyone struggling with their bills to contact their supplier to see what extra help is available. More here 👇🏾 www.energy-uk.org.uk/news/energy-...

🚨 LAUNCHING TODAY 🚨 Nearly two years ago, @tortoisemedia.bsky.social unveiled the Westminster Accounts, a free tool designed to give people greater understanding of the money that flows through parliament. Now, with Peer Review, we take on another arcane part of our system - the House of Lords

When is the final straw actually the final straw?

I was an economist at the BoE at the same time as she worked there. She was an economist. I walked past her desk a few times a day. I read notes she wrote. Attended the same meetings. The last time I wrote this on Twitter someone replied 'you supported masks and lockdown'.

#uksnow 1/10 Westminster ❄️

Green Party say they can find their Free Ponies For All programme with a wealth tax but are now opposing taxes on land inheritance. Joke party for fools and cranks.

Who represents St Albans? Could it be the Lib Dems? 🤔

Among those taking part in the farming protests today will be Jeremy Clarkson, who told The Times in 2021 that avoiding inheritance tax was “critical” in his decision to buy land. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/rachel...

Good to see #BBCVerify confirming that only very small number of farms (the largest and most valuable) will be affected by tax changes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In Kent, Labour has a fight on its hands – and a make-or-break test for its housing revolution | Polly Toynbee

Extraordinary that the Essex Police Fire & Crime Commissioner had to cancel his own public meeting last night in the interests of public safety.