Badenoch's right - they're "not the same", but not for the reasons she thinks. Her own actions were deliberate and clearly illegal. Reeves' on the other hand was a simple oversight of a municipal by-law, which the estate agent had undertaken to do on her behalf. news.sky.com/story/badeno...

If I had the Chancellor of the Exchequer as a client, I'd hope to 1) notice that I had 2) make sure I didn't fuck anything up in case it led to bad publicity for me.

I propose a minutes silence for the journalists and broadcasters who are now in mourning because Rachel Reeves did nothing wrong, what are they going to do now. Think there might be a story about a house in Clacton worth investigating, just a suggestion.

It's mad how much people care about immigration when it is so proportionately unimportant compared to healthcare, cost of living, poverty, climate change, wealth inequality, war etc. How easily people are convinced to rage about the wrong things by charismatic manipulators and social media posts.

Two Dinky Toys, new to & on display at Maghull's Frank Hornby Heritage Centre, Merseyside, UK. Both are 1970s Volvo Estate cars. The blue one came from Liverpool's Meccano Factory, but the police-liveried one was made in Italy after the demise of the Liverpool factory in November 1979. #bsmuseums

Now, let me guess, which one was taken by the other? Possibly the one who was taken in by Putin, too? - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That a significant employer can choose not to recognise a trade union is an utter disgrace and the government needs to change whatever rules/regulations are required to put this situation right without delay - www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇 1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK 2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves 3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

And today The Sun have roped in Nigel Farage to back their massively self-serving campaign against higher taxes on gambling

The political debate about immigration is completely divorced from the reality of what is happening, which is that it has been falling quite rapidly for some time now and is likely to continue doing so bsky.app/profile/jdpo...

Shocking turnout from Labour. Just as well the Lib Dems were there in force.

Tories back Farage in Commons to take our rights away. Labour missing in action, leaving the Lib Dems to oppose Reform's mad caper to leave the EHCR.

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

I'm at home right now so can't update my office whiteboard but here's my artist's impression following the latest news in Kent.

The Lib Dem attack operation is so much sharper than Labour’s at the moment.

Interesting. Maybe a Merseyside thing, but Labour voters going to Reform seems low. Working-class right-wingers are leaving Labour for Reform in much larger numbers than this chart indicates.

Firstly, advertisers only produce adverts for the media that they think will sell their products. Secondly, her comments were, in my view, utterly appalling. They don't require excusing/explaining, they need condemning - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If the Tories won't call this out what on earth will they do? Seems they are lost down the far right rabbit hole. That is indeed a sad place to be for a former party of government.

Mm, but why is he saying it? Probably associated with a need to place himself in a prominent place should Starmer fall. The ferrets are politely, for now, fighting in the Labour leadership sack.

Normal service on #TrevorPhillips & #BBCLauraK. Days after Plaid Cymru sensationally won the #Caerphilly by-election there is no room for Plaid on either programme. But Trevor Phillips has room for the losing party: Farage's Reform & Zia Yusuf. Ever get the feeling you are being cheated?

This is Mick Barton, the cost-cutting Deform leader of Nottinghamshire Council. He's planning to spend £75k on flags on lampposts across the county because it will “provide a feel good factor”. Not SEND services, not youth clubs, not even pot holes. Deform are not safe with your money.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #liverpool

This is Reform! We have to defeat them, it won’t be done by always dividing the progressive vote!

Ofcom’s broadcasting code requires that factual programmes "must not materially mislead the audience" and that "news, in whatever form, must be reported with due accuracy and presented with due impartiality" Yet time and again, they've refused to apply this rule to GB News on climate /4

I didn’t think this story could get worse, but the Prison Service had several chances to fix it and failed. The Government now has serious questions to answer and major work to do to make the system fit for purpose. It certainly isn't at the moment. shorturl.at/4jgD6

Kemi Badenoch’s ability to plant political time bombs that blow up in the face of the party she leads is truly unparalleled. What’s particularly impressive here is she could have found this out herself before raising the profile of this issue at PMQs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A bad political night for the BBC as Reform fails to win.

I'm no Lab supporter, as as Social Liberal of the left, but hope Jess Phillips means well. I fear this process is being manipulated by the far right. It did though seem a big political blunder to have a chair from policing/social work background when those are the very areas under detailed scrutiny.

Liverpool’s Meccano Factory made up colours 4 models produced as merchandise 4 the Sylvia/Gerry Anderson TV programmes. The UFO SHADO Interceptor was made in green - see 2nd photo - but was white on TV - see 1st photo. Maghull's Frank Hornby Heritage Centre. Merseyside, UK displays them #bsmuseums

The Tories can shout at me all they like, but the truth is their Brexit deal it is hurting our country and Labour won’t do anything about it. Today I urged the Prime Minister to actually fix it.

Mm, I think there's many a petrol head out there who would rather sit in a traffic jam each day than agree to public money being spent on decent public transport that they'll never use come what may. It's a mindset of me and my car at any cost.

“Will the Prime Minister now repair the Brexit damage by negotiating a new UK-EU customs union to boost British trade and grow our economy?” Ed Davey #PMQs

Official Tory policy now more right wing than Reform or Enoch Powell?

If only there was some visual metaphor for what the current incumbent at the White House was doing to the great office of President.

“How much easier would they find it to argue now that Brexit is an affliction and Farage a fraud if they had said so all along? The problem with arriving at the obvious place by the most circuitous route is that people wonder what took you so long” Rafael 🎯 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In their desperate efforts to outflank Reform from the (even further) right, the Tories are proposing a policy that accords with the preferences of roughly 3% of the electorate.

Labour is trapping itself in a new lie. Saying that the costs of Brexit are the fault of how it was implemented implies that you can implement it in a way that undoes them. Labour's red lines on the Customs Union and Single Market mean we have to live with almost all of those costs.

Victims of domestic abuse deserve real protection, not promises. The Government must ensure it properly funds probation services and electronic tagging to keep survivors safe after perpetrators are released.

Some context as to why Maccabi supporters should not be welcomed in UK. Anti-semitism is vile and must not be tolerated - but equally so, islamophobia.

Well yes, but what on earth are Labour actually going to do about it? So far it's all talk and no action. It seems they'll do little or nothing and I'm presently leaning towards nothing!

What kind of political party regards leaking Zoom footage as a worse offence than taking bribes from Russia?

When speaking out about racism costs you everything buff.ly/59SfASY Hameeda Khan writes about the cost about telling the truth about racism in Britain and the impact that can have on a person's life @marisharay.bsky.social @tuceconomics.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @mariecgoldman.bsky.social

Lam’s suggestion of removing thousands who were in the UK legally “shows how far your (Tory) party has moved away from the fundamental values of decency, tolerance and respect for the rule of law that the vast majority hold dear” says @eddavey.libdems.org.uk www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

But Labour isn’t ‘unashamedly rebuilding relations’ with the EU It’s sought piecemeal ameliorations while remaining committed to the basic hard-Brexit paradigm. It’s in the mad position of condemning a policy choice it voted for then enshrined in its manifesto. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

I think an informed guess would be that the government will actually do little or nothing, I'm leaning towards the latter.

Sums it up nicely. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

But saying it is one thing, doing something about it is quite another for our timid Labour government.

Oh don't you know when a government tells you it can sort things out with efficiencies and cutting red tape that it is all but lost. So very Tory/Reform, so very pointless and directionless:-(

Well, if that is the case, do the logical thing and seek to reverse Brexit. Or does Labour lack the political courage to do what it now knows it should do? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...