Kemi has been #ReformUK facing, ignoring Tory’s huge loss of voters to #LibDems - big mistake BUT #StampDuty abolition is a massive retail offer in affluent🔶seats in SW London & SE 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿where 🏠 prices are high 1/2 #KemiBadenoch #Conservatives #r4today #LVIPolitics #CPC25

“I think our Chinese air fryer is spying on us. I won’t call it the enemy because it might burn our chips” 😂😂 Matt on the Chinese spy ring & the collapse of the trial #r4today #WestminsterSpy

Surprising similarities btw the 2 party conferences: Starmer & Badenoch both raised their 🗯️game Burnham & Jenrick seen off & their leadership stabilised Clear thinking - more on Badenoch’s part than his #KemiBadenoch #KeirStarmer #r4today #LVIPolitics #CPC25

Here's that famous William Hague, young #Tory speech at Conservative Conference in 1977, age 16 #CPC25 #ConservativePartyConference #r4today youtu.be/qL_p9qjfu5U?...

Has Kemi Badenoch sounded the death knell for One Nation Conservatism? asks @ecourea.bsky.social, or will they sit it out until a change in leader. James Cleverly? Mel Stride? Hmm - more likely Jenrick, no friend to One Nation #CPC25 #KemiBadenoch #r4today www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Let's hope the Tory Party can be saved [email protected] (😲yes, really) "A better brand of conservatism would do the country good...but it may be too late & the party too far gone, about to be eaten alive by Farage" #r4today #LVIPolitics #KemiBadenoch www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At 16, the most famous Tory boy in the country, William Hague says the Conservatives should tell the truth about 🇬🇧’s finances & align itself with the needs of young people if it’s to claim the future from Reform #r4today #CPC25 #ToryConference #LVIPolitics #ReformUK

“The hard cheeses have been matured for about five French prime ministers” Matt on the political crisis in France with Sebastien Lecornu resigning as PM after just 27 days #r4today #Macron #skynews #Lecornu

The "Conservative party has not died, it has only mutated to its next form" & "for now, Farage’s continuity conservatism looks impossibly hard to vanquish" - @nesrinemalik.bsky.social as #CPC25 begins #ReformUK #NigelFarage #KemiBadenoch #r4today #LVIPolitics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

2/ Here's Nathan Gill's speech Could it have just been a coincidence that Gill and Farage parroted the same Russian talking points? I don't think so. It looks coordinated. Either Farage was feeding Nathan Gill with Russian talking points, or Russia was providing its talking points to both of them.

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

Gerard Baker says the shutdown will tell us a lot about the Democrats’ direction: a progressive war with Trump, or a more pragmatic approach to rebuild their voter base #shutdown #Trump #Democrats #r4today #UVIPolitics

Whilst we wait to hear who the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury will be, @kayaburgess.bsky.social & The Times’ graphics team have a wonderful explainer of the appointment process & the new ABC’s next steps #archbishopofcanterbury #r4today #skynews thetimes.com/article/300a21…

'Time is running out to protect our precious Tory Party for future generations...' Matt on Kemi Badenoch & net zero🤦‍♂️😂 #KemiBadenoch #CPC25 #netzero #r4today

Hugo Rifkind on flags🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿(& a bit of🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿) & how Nigel Farage & the right learnt “the insidious, intoxicating thrill of victimhood” from the left, who disdained those flags #r4today #LVIPolitics #flag

After years of very direct attacks on Tory & Labour leaders, Nigel Farage cry’s foul when Keir Starmer FINALLY fights back! @mortenmorland.bsky.social captures this brilliantly in his @thetimes.com cartoon #NigelFarage #KeirStarmer #racism #r4today

“We just scan your digital ID card now. It tells us everything we need to know.” St Peter at the pearly gates Matt’s cartoon reflects concerns about the all encompassing, authoritarian power of #DigitaID #r4today #SkyNews #KeirStarmer #freedom

Burnham went too hard, too early & has now retreated - somewhat diminished @davidpbmaddox.bsky.social picks 5 potential #Labour leaders for @the-independent.com : Streeting, Miliband Ed, Mahmood, Lammy & Rayner #Lab25 #KeirStarmer #LVIPolitics #SkyNews www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Follow the details today: Mone and her husband were not in court, and continue to maintain an unrepentant, self-pitying arrogance which is quite nauseating.

Many people will be delighted that the judge has found against Michelle Mone & Doug Barrowman, symbols of the worst Covid profiteering & Tory corruption. Let’s hope £122m & ££m from others can be recovered #MichelleMone #CovidContracts #ToryCorruption #skynews #bbcnews

.@Dannythefink on Blue Labour, the Red Wall & Labour’s contradictions in being led in different directions simultaneously by Morgan McSweeney & Keir Starmer, in an era when #Labour isn’t (& can’t be) the party of socialism & the working class #Lab25 #KeirStarmer #socialism #LVIPolitics

Good to see Keir Starmer taking the fight to Nigel Farage in his i/v with @christopherhope, not just on patriotism but on small boats - “Farage boats” - as Brexit lost us our returns agreement with 🇪🇺 #Lab25 #KeirStarmer #NigelFarage #BrexitBrokeBritain www.gbnews.com/politics/kei...

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

Right-wing media fluffs Farage for years, to the point where he now leads the polls, and then start whining about Starmer being 'obsessed' when he starts telling some long overdue home truths. It's actually hilarious.

More aggressive & a clearer vision, conference “job done”✅ - but the real challenges lay ahead: the budget and next May’s elections @PippaCrerar analyses Keir Starmer’s speech #Lab25 #LVIPolitics #KeirStarmer #Budget www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Secretary of Defense who only got the job because the president saw him on the teevee is complaining about military leaders who were promoted "for the wrong reasons"

The entirety of Congressional D messaging about the budget – 100% of it - should be: Rs control the White House. Rs control the Senate. Rs control the House. Rs control SCOTUS. A government shutdown proves they cannot govern.

Alternatively - given that Trump controls the White House, the Senate, the House, and Scotus 6-3, you could say its a sign of his incompetence and nothing much to do with the Dems? bsky.app/profile/nyti...

A government shutdown that is almost certain to start on Wednesday will be the third to occur during a Trump presidency. It’s just one symptom of the partisan polarization that has increasingly gripped Congress in recent decades.

Has Keir Starmer moved from being ‘not the Tories’ (big 👍#GE2024) to being ‘not Reform’? National Renewal is good, but is the definition of who he isn’t (Tories, Nigel Farage) still sharper than the story of what he’s FOR? #Lab25 #KeirStarmer #C4News #LVIPolitics m.youtube.com/watch?v=leYG...

Looking forward to @iaindale.bsky.social in conversation with Sir David Davis MP about Margaret Thatcher, her life reputation & legacy at St Peter’s, Fri 10 Oct All welcome! Free 🎟️ here⬇️ #Thatcher #York 📚 @swiftpress.bsky.social @littleapplebkshop.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/iain-dale-...

One of the huge mistakes the Tories made over the years was the retrenchment of the physical presence of government from towns. From closing libraries, police stations, etc, reduced bin collection frequency, lots of areas just stopped seeing much of govt services at all. ...

Labour Conference continues with Andy Burnham stealing the show & getting attacked in return, summed up in Peter Brookes’ cartoon 😂& Nick Robinson’s joke: A Blairite, a Brownite & a Corbynite walk into a bar. Barman: Your usual pint Andy?! 😂 #Lab25 #r4today #AndyBurnham

'The Donald Trump Show' on @Channel4 is a great catch up on Trump 2 for any #UVIPolitics student, esp on the Constitution & foreign policy President #Trump #TheDonaldTrumpShow www.channel4.com/programmes/t...

Indeed! What with Farage saying that Putin is the leader he most admires, Russian money in the Brexit referendum, and now this, a pattern of collusion and betrayal of Britain is becoming clearer and clearer…

Watergate-level high crimes and misdemeanors happening every day www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u... Right out of the authoritarian playbook.

I'm Not a Lawyer, But™ ♦️Sure looks like an unprovoked assault. Captured on video. In a country with a functioning justice system, this ICE agent would serve a prison sentence, and his victim would receive enough compensation to deter other agents from acting this way. In our current system: 🤷🏼‍♀️

This is good from @samfr.bsky.social on the imminent eclipse of the Tory party samf.substack.com/p/last-rites

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

"Under [the] flamethrowers of Trumpian demagoguery the Liberal Democrats...have an urgent cause to align with their name." Facing #Trump & #Farage, @rafaelbehr.bsky.social produces the best analysis of where the #LibDems stand #r4today #LVIPolitics #LDConf www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@bjennings90.bsky.social brilliantly satirised Trump’s speech (by which I mean rambling hour long rant🤦‍♂️) #Trump #UNGA80 #r4today #UVIPolitics

Does the big row between Jeremy Corbyn & Zarah Sultana mean the new left wing Your Party is sunk before it’s launched? Morten Morland in @thetimes ⬇️ #r4today #Corbyn #Sultana #YourParty #LVIPolitics

Does Truss know that Yaxley-Lennon has at least 18 convictions for assault (including on police officers), mortgage fraud, stalking a woman journalist, carrying a false passport, libel and contempt of court? How low can she go? www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/liz...

“M23: during peak times hard shoulder will be Gatwick‘s second runway”😂😂 Matt on the #Gatwick announcement & the UK’s lamentable record with building infrastructure🤦‍♂️ #r4today #RachelReeves #Infrastructure

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

Trevor Phillips looks at UK voting behaviour in @thetimes.com: As #Labour becomes more middle class has it neglected its working class roots - & are they moving to Reform? #KeirStarmer #NigelFarage #ReformUK #r4today #LVIPolitics

@andrewrawnsley.bsky.social perceptive on Lib Dem dilemmas, with activists skewing left while seats & voters lean right, & Ed Davey’s battle for visibility #LDConf #bbclaurak #LibDem #LVIPolitics observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Congratulations to @durham_uni on being named @thetimes University of the Year. Very envious of all those freshers about to experience how wonderful life is there! #university #bbclaurak

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.