NEW: Downing Street confirms that Keir Starmer will *not* stand down as an MP after leaving No 10, and will serve out the remainder of his term in the Commons.

absolutely fuck the BMA www.thejc.com/news/uk/bma-...

I don't have anything profound to say about the 10-year anniversary of the Brexit vote. Brexit was always going to be shit, was shit, and now continues to be shit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Commentators, columnists and opposition politicians were apocalyptic with claims that ending private schools' tax breaks would overwhelm the state sector. The data shows those predictions were wrong. www.lbc.co.uk/article/priv...

Last year, Govt won a £122m judgment against Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company PPE Medpro, for supplying defective PPE The company had been emptied of cash and collapsed Now its liquidators are suing Barrowman, Mone and associated companies personally Short 🧵

Interesting to see Hartley-Brewer, of all people, pushing Farage quite hard on this, and also interesting to see how uncomfortable Farage becomes as it goes on.

I was at the count in Blackheath ten years ago today as a Remain observer. One of the single most depressing nights of my life - tried to sleep when I got back but knew the game was up and I knew that we as a country had just plunged into a political sink hole...

Hey @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social why are you putting all your posts on fascist X?

1/2 Keir turned around our party and has given huge service to our country - both as our Prime Minister and a reforming public prosecutor. We all owe him thanks for that service and the progress that has been made, from stronger workers rights to rising wages and falling waiting lists.

Yes … It’s a clue that some newspapers appear unable to understand

I fear that this is probable.

🙄🙄 They hounded him over a curry They hounded him over a pair of glasses They hounded him over a suit They hounded him over using a quiet flat to let his son revise They hounded him if he went abroad They hounded him if he stayed in the UK Meanwhile Farage pockets £gazillions, lies, incites riots..

there's something quite moving about seeing one of the most buttoned-up figures in British politics choking up while talking about his family as his political career implodes

France will be at the epicenter of the most significant heat anomaly on the planet over the next few days. The sheer extent of the country that could experience temperatures above 40°C is nothing short of astonishing.

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

Surely the worst crime committed by the leader of a UK political party. Horrendous.

It shows how mad and frankly ungovernable our country is right now by this one statement. “Keir Starmer is the worst Prime Minister Britain has ever had? Worse than Liz Truss and Boris Johnson? This country has lost all sense of proportion.

How conventient for political journalists, to all be gathered in Downing Street once more, so they can interview each other, to ask "how did this happen?", without ever acknowledging that, at least in part, they themselves are how this happened.

One of the most interesting questions is, I think, why left leaning people don't generally recognise it as such.

Has anyone else noted their Facebook algo has got far more aggressive and political recently? It was... not that bad for me until recently and now Im constantly pushed a lot of far-right shit

We seem to be in a strange place where Keir Starmer is being told he must quit to prevent more uncertainty and chaos (by those who have caused much of it) but then stay on for a couple of months because the guy who has been desperate to take his job is not yet ready to do so…

Steve Bray is, fundimentally, a prat and a sign of the very worst things in our politics. Totally ineffective, disrespectful and a complete grift. At least EU Supergirl stopped at some point.

I just learned that the richest man on Earth from 1980 to 1990, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, got too greedy and ended up in legal trouble and lost almost everything. Maybe there's hope

If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.

One of my formative political experiences was at a selection meeting when someone asked about the proliferation of takeaways and charity shops in the town. An excellent candidate gave a thorough answer, about local plans, what you can change, what you can't. The balance between planning and market

If the bloke wielding a knife and attacking passersby was a Muslim all today's rolling news and political programmes would be coming live from the streets of Edinburgh and Farage's ugly mush would be on every show.

I’ll never forgive anyone who voted for this destruction, corruption, disrespect, criminality and complete chaos. You’re no patriot, you’re an arsonist.

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

What if there was … two tier journalism …

Happy Father's Day 🖤

Labour won by 20 points and net immigration is down by over 80% in two years. But sure write your column again.

“The scandal of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is such a complete encapsulation—and such a perfect metaphor—of incompetence and corruption that it deserves to be both a long-remembered failure and a final straw for a restless, angry nation.“ www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...

A shirtless white man, in the street with a knife in his hand, having attacked and wounded five people, allegedly shouting anti-Muslim slogans is the sixth story on the BBC UK news page. There is absolutely no doubt at all this would be the lead story if attacker and intended victims were reversed.

Jacob Rees Mogg’s happy to be photographed with Tommy Robinson.. dinner jacket fascism.

So, this is new. EU Waste Ban. No more destroying unsold clothes. As from 19th July 2026, destroying unsold apparel, accessories and shoes will become illegal for large companies as part of the EUs new EcoDesign Regulations. Glad to see they’re doing something about it.

Lol. Mothin is a real liability for the Greens, isn't he?

Peter Kellner had clearest hypothesis of why poll weighting adjustments may be taking accurate data [Labour well ahead] to make it less accurate [Reform close behind] Commentators preferred drama + uncertainty of "too close to call" to noting the possibility kellnerp.substack.com/p/burnham-st...

Never fails to miss.

Exc: First Government department quits Twitter over racism and violence concerns Richard Hermer sent a directive to staff last week saying the Attorney General's Office would be coming off the platform observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Just a friendly reminder. If the US had taken only a small fraction of the money and military equipment it has squandered fighting and losing to Iran, and instead helped Ukraine, the Middle East would be more stable and Russia would be facing defeat.

Yes, it’s true. Money Box Live has been the standout and most beloved part of my entire career. We have served so many communities, told so many stories and explained so many issues. I am heartbroken.

Really hoping the Iran fiasco will put to bed suggestions that Trump's press conferences / posts are some kind of clever 4D chess rather than the babblings of a confused old narcissist.

Can Labour potentially stop naval-gazing for a minute and address the fact in the last 48 hours we found out Russia was behind an arson attack on the PM's house and fired on a British ship in the channel?

It really is bleak where Cadbury's, a deeply ethical company with a beautiful history, has ended up. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As a side point: I don't think we remark enough on (and Labour isn't given enough credit for) the fact that all 4 of our candidates to be next PM grew up in relatively poor, working class households with 3 of those in proper poverty. The Labour dream, or summit

I am coming to the slow conclusion Al Carns is a performance art piece

Second month in a row with inflation coming in lower than expected - with the fall last month sustained. The war in the Middle East has pushed up some prices but overall inflation in the UK has fallen this year while it has risen in other advanced economies www.ons.gov.uk/economy/infl...

Brexiters’ claims that the UK would be able to aggressively deregulate and forge new trade alliances with the likes of the US have failed to bear fruit

"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."

Any last hold-outs who still think the BBC News website operation is not actiuvely producing anti-Labour clickbait? On the left the framing. On the right what actually happened. Basically some council-level idiot tried to influence the internal party ***candidate selection***.