How Keir Starmer’s ‘insurgent government’ could outpace its opponents Harnessing the momentum of events, the PM's premiership-defining gamble also serves as a trap for Farage and Badenoch Latest long-read for @politics-co-uk.bsky.social 👇 www.politics.co.uk/week-in-revi...

We are providing access to specialist mental health professionals in every school. Under Labour, every young person will have access to early support to address problems before they escalate.

🇪🇺🇬🇧 Through my first set of meetings in Brussels. The praise for Starmer is overwhelming: “What he has managed to do is not just good for him. It's good for all of us. Absolutely top notch. This is the UK at its best. The UK we have always admired.

MIRROR: 700,000 reasons to smile #TomorrowsPapersToday

Labour is making childcare more accessible and affordable through our Plan for Change. ✅ Protecting parents from hidden costs ✅ Investing in the system ahead of expansion ✅ Spreading good practice👇🏻 educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2025/02/how-...

Why is there a witch hunt against Rachel Reeves? Rishi Sunak who was also Chancellor literally made his fortune in the financial crash at everyone's expense 🤷‍♂️ Inflating small indiscretions beyond all measure of proportion, that's toxic Is this really the type of society we want to live in?

The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens. The Tories failed to maintain our flood defences putting lives and livelihoods at risk. Labour is investing a record £2.65bn to upgrade and build defences to protect communities. www.ft.com/content/4d8a...

For example, in her speech, Ms Braverman talks about there being a “fifth column” in British society. A few years ago there would have been talk about her losing the whip. Now such conspiracy is welcomed as telling hard truths. The whole discourse has shifted very rapidly.

NEW: Latest @newsagents.bsky.social. We need to talk about Suella Braverman. She made a speech in DC this week which barely caused a murmer. But it was a speech which had echoes of Tommy Robinson. We need to talk about the radicalisaton of the mainstream right. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

MIRROR: Reeves Revolution #TomorrowsPapersToday

Keir Starmer responds to Kemi Badenoch attacks that he’s a “lawyer, not a leader”. PM says: “She’s not a lawyer, she’s not a leader, if she keeps going like this, she’s going to be the next lettuce”. #PMQs 🥬

Asked Wes Streeting at the Fabians New Year conference how Labour deals with Trump and the rise of the right across the world Streeting says: “It’s our responsibility to be the light on the hill for the progressive world.”

Over 4,000 nurseries, schools and colleges have joined the #EducationNaturePark to improve biodiversity and tackle climate change. Great to join the Nature Park Schools Forum at Natural History Museum to see how children are shaping the future of this brilliant programme

Storm Éowyn will hit the UK on Friday morning and is set to bring damaging gusts. Red and amber warnings have been issued⚠️ Watch our latest update on Storm Éowyn 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYVc...

We had really good news this month is on underlying inflation. Core inflation (excluding energy and food) fell by 0.3ppts, to 3.2% in December. This is a chunky and important fall.

Since announcing my diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer a few weeks ago I’ve become increasingly aware of how misunderstood the condition is. So I want to debunk a few misconceptions: 1/7 (short posts!)

this is a genuinely alarming story via Gabriel Pogrund in Sunday Times: deepfake video seen by two million people online falsely made it look as if a teacher - delivering election leaflets - had made a racist tirade www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

Remember all these headlines describing a brief rise in government borrowing costs as being "market mayhem", followed by a week of demands for Rachel Reeves to quit? Well one week later and it turns out UK gilts are now outperforming every other G7 country this year, aside from the US

Index of gilt market general news coverage down 80% today. Looking at the 'economic commentators still active on X' components, it's down almost 100%

Believe it or not, gilts have now outperformed all G7 bonds this year apart from U.S. Treasuries. (h/t @chriswhittall.bsky.social for setting me on this path)

The reporting of this stuff has been an absolute clowncar

Chris Bryant, "We have a backlog of 7 million people on the NHS.. Before covid there was a 4.8 million backlog" "We've had 14 years of not caring for the NHS and now we have got to put it right" "It is our historic duty to do that because we owe it to the British people" #BBCQT

UK national debt increased from about £1 trillion to about £2.5trillion under Badenoch's Conservative party - discuss

Ryan Wellings has been sentenced to six years for his abuse of Kiena Dawes. He beat her when she was pregnant, threatened to drill out her teeth, told her she may as well kill herself. Kiena wrote in her suicide note he was a "monster" who "killed me" t.co/MSJHf36qiJ

@ liz truss' legal team #pmqs

BREAKING 🚨 A ceasefire agreement between the Israeli government and Hamas has been reached. The deal secures the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, the release of Palestinian detainees held by Israel, and the withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza.

It’s the dress rehearsal for the Not the BBC Panto tonight before we open on Friday. Tickets are going well, with a good crowd expected in Brid and 900+ tickets sold for our 2 Hull shows but we’d love some more of you to come - Saturday evening’s show has good seats - details:

EXCL: A dozen Reform UK councillors have given notice of their intention to resign en masse in protest at Nigel Farage’s leadership @benquinn75.bsky.social reports www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nazir Afzal, "When Keir Starmer and I left the CPS we had the highest rate of child sexual abuse prosecutions in our history.. That is Keir Starmer's legacy" "Boris Johnson said that investigating child sexual abuse was money spaffed up a wall"

#Hull has had toads, #PhilipLarkin, and moths, #AmyJohnson, but now it will have a rats art project this time in memory of local bloke #MickRonson #TheRats #SpidersFromMars www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just like much of the furore this week, here is an example of a law passed 4 years ago and the Tories did nothing with it. Within months of us being in power we delivered the scheme because we are about actual actions and real outcomes. They talked we walked. www.burytimes.co.uk/news/2484314...

🚨🚨 in case you’re wondering why the Tories didn’t implement the Alexis Jay report into child sex abuse we reveal tonight that her proposal for a compensation scheme for victims would cost £5-10bn according to preliminary Whitehall estimates www.ft.com/content/cef1...

Professor Alexis Jay, who led a 7-year review of sexual abuse which reported in 2022, says starting a new inquiry would delay any implementation of her own recommendations:

Professor Alexis Jay, "I'm unhappy about the politicisation of child sexual exploitation.. The time has passed for more inquiries" "Victims want action. We have set out what action is required. Politicians should just get on with it"

one of the most thorough skewerings I’ve ever seen during PMQs

Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.

Cathy Newman, "Some of your opponents have said that you're afraid of upsetting ethnic minority constituents" Jess Phillips, "That's deeply offence. I'm not afraid of offending anyone who is a rapist. I want to see them all taken down. I don't need an inquiry to tell me that's what needs to happen"

i: NHS will send extra 2.5 million patients to private hospitals in ‘urgent’ attempt to cut waiting lists #TomorrowsPapersToday

"He has the potential to incite hatred in ways that I have never seen" Former Tory No 10 advisor Samuel Kasumu says some of Robert Jenrick's comments over the last 12 months could "result in some people maybe even dying" We deserve better than the toxic, decisive language some have normalised.

Starmer accuses Tories of being 'casual about honest, decency, truth and rule of law' in rape gang claims - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer responds to Elon Musk “
Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible, they’re not interested in victims. They’re interested in themselves.” Full statement 👇 www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...

PM says he wants to "call out" conduct of Tory politicians who sat in govt now "jumping on a bandwagon" of the far right over grooming gangs. "Once we lose the anchor that truth matters in the robust debate we must have, then we're on a very slippery slope."

Starmer: "Those who are cheerleading Tommy Robinson aren't interested in justice. They're supporting a man who went to prison for nearly collapsing a grooming case, a gang grooming case." Says JP has done one thousand times more for sex abuse survivors than Robinson, Musk or her critics.

"...if you're not prepared to stand up as a Tory MP and denounce what's been said about her, then you need to seriously think about why you're in politics in my view."

at last Keir Starmer hits back at Musk attacks: “I enjoy the cut and trust of politics, the robust debate that we must have but that has got to be based on facts and truth, not on lies, not on those who are so desperate for attention that they are prepared to debase themselves and their country.”

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Starmer: "I think only a few months ago it would have been unthinkable for the things that have been said about Jess Philips without all political parties and the leader of the opposition to call it out in terms...to condemn it..."

NEW: Keir Starmer takes a swipe at Elon Musk. "A line has been crossed", he says. “Those that are spreading lies… are not interested in victims, they’re interested in themselves....cheerleading Tommy Robinson... who went to prison for nearly collapsing a gang grooming case."

Starmer on grooming gangs: "Why didn't the last govt implement the Jay report? For ten years we've had reviews and reports. Did they do anything? No they're now tweeting and talking."

Wes Streeting, "We've had an independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation, not a single one of those recommendations was implemented by the Conservative government" "Labour are determined to implement those recommendations"