“Remember what I said…” Yeah. About that. It’s almost impressive how confidently wrong that prediction aged.

Smart question from Matt Chlorley: is Reform topping out? Luke Tryl says they’ve certainly hit a plateau in polls and face headwinds. Brits may want change but not MAGA-style politics. If Reform has a ceiling, why is Labour still chasing it? #Newsnight

As the analysis starts of the Gorton and Denton result, I wanted to flag some aspects that my experience yesterday suggests are being over or under-played (Caveats - I went to Longsight, Gorton and Denton town centres and spoke to as many people as I could, but it was mostly during the working day)

The geography of the continent has not changed since 2016 - Europe still remains our closest and largest trading partner, and our policies should reflect that. There's no need to look across the globe for trade deals when the largest free market in the world is at our doorstep.

Two @yorkshirepost.co.ukletters: Good #EU relations means an economic boost. Our Vice Chair @jazz072.bsky.social says global uncertainties make improved ties “simple common sense”. Second letter: Urgent Govt decision needed if to rejoin big #EuropeanUnion creative industries programme. #RejoinEU

The illiberal nature of government proposals on immigration control | Proposals to extend settled status residency periods to at least 10 years are heartless and contradict economic benefits of immigration | John Cole

📌 ICYMI — Naz Shah MP on Gorton and Denton Claims: ‘How Do Supposedly “Sectarian Muslims” End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?’ The Labour MP told that, from her experience of 'clan-based politics', it was not present in the Manchester by-election as Reform UK…

Yorkshire’s ‘Dirty Business’: The scandal flowing through our rivers Yorkshire’s water pollution is the third worst in the UK. Who is responsible – and what can be done about it? By Kirsty Tucker

"Similar to the debate around electoral reform, opponents of PR for Westminster elections also discount its use in local and devolved elections in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and Greater London."

"The research, The Brexit Couples Project, showed that prohibitive visa costs, complex and confusing paperwork, increased bureaucracy and minimum earning stipulations meant many UK-EU couples faced either 'separation or exile'." Read this article by European Movement UK and more at the link below:

Great to join the @festivalofeurope.bsky.social Team for the launch of this year’s programme of events. This is the 3rd year of the Festival and it gets bigger and bigger Have look at their website for this year’s programme festivalofeuropescotland.org There are more events in the pipeline too!

Zack Polanski, "If you have a migrant worker who comes to this country" "They are more likely to pay more in tax, than they ever take out in benefits" "We very rarely hear this reality"

Zack Polanski, "Keir Starmer is never going to appease the right by slowly moving to the right" "They just get worse and they drag the government with them" "I wouldn't be bothered except they're the government of this country and they're dragging us all down with them"

Donald Trump still refuses to admit his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, and now it looks like Nigel Farage is following the same playbook after the by-election in Gorton and Denton. Don’t let Farage try Trump’s tactics in Britain. Share now.

YES GORTON & DENTON!!!! Despite Reform being rammed down our throats, the good people of D & G saw through it!

The lesson for the Labour Party is that it cannot defeat the far right by pandering to its supporters and echoing its rhetoric. We are not an "island of strangers". This is "not the Britain of the Brexit years". We must reject Brexitism in all its forms. eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/co...

Brexit promised us £350 million a week to fund our NHS, but a decade later, the UK is losing £250m a day in lost tax revenue. It's time to repair our relationship with the continent to reclaim our place at the heart of Europe.

Rejoining the customs union would enable free trade with the continental market, and reduce duplication and costs for businesses, allowing them to trade more easily and confidently across Europe. Modern political rhetoric often asserts the importance of aligning, but fully rejoining is the answer

Terrible night for Labour. When a party loses the trust of thousands of its own voters in its heartlands, that’s not an aberration but a stark warning. Just as in Caerphilly last year, this result proves voters are willing to break the mould when they don’t feel heard.

“It’s high time Labour stopped courting right wing voters who are never going to back them, and focus on delivering for the progressive majority. "The Greens have broken through not because the system helped them, but despite it working against them at every turn."

Hannah Spencer, newly elected MP for Gorton and Denton, said: "Because working hard used to get you something. "But now, what does that get you? "Instead of working for a nice life, we're working to line the pockets of billionaires."

Not just a loser. But a bad loser.

The European Commission has referred Peter Mandelson, a former EU trade commissioner, to fraud investigators. Recently released files suggest Mandelson gave Epstein information about a €500 billion bailout to save the euro in 2010. www.politico.eu/article/pete...

EU asks anti-fraud agency to 'look into' ex-commissioner Mandelson's Epstein ties www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Hopkins is not a mainstream figure. Twitter banned her for a reason. The Sun suspended her for a reason. LBC stopped using her for a reason. Just because a few years have gone by since those sackings she doesn't suddenly get a free pass. Her record is absolutely appalling

Tommy Robinson is living in a gigantic multimillion dollar mansion in the US with his own swimming pool and a $250,000 sports car. He is laughing at all the people who donate money to him because he is 'broke'.

The migration doom loop at work: does anyone in government seriously think that a strategy designed to keep out skilled workers and students makes either economic or political sense? ://www.ft.com/content/7408ad00-e4eb-41c7-8849-36061bc0eac1

The EU played a significant role in the development of the Good Friday Agreement, and the European Parliament have reported that Northern Ireland is the part of the UK most distinctly affected by Brexit, despite the majority of the public voting to remain.

Today, we have singed the EU-UK Competition Cooperation Agreement. It aims to ensure smooth interactions between the EU and UK on competition matters, and maintain fair and competitive markets to the benefit of consumers, businesses and innovation. link.europa.eu/Hv7Xpb

Membership of the #EuropeanUnion meant British animal welfare campaigners could fight for higher farming standards across the continent, says a @yorkshirepost.co.uk letter. Now #Brexit means trade deals exposing UK farmers to cheap imports. #RejoinEU #UKfarming #AnimalWelfare

The EU is committing €225 million to speed up the development of next-generation flu vaccines. This funding will support vaccines designed to offer protection across a wider range of influenza variants and quickly adapted if a pandemic strain emerges. Read more: link.europa.eu/Fd7BQp

The UK needs much more than a closer economic relationship with the EU. We must build our security and political relationship, we must unite as democracies against the autocracies East and West that seek to undermine our values and our societies. We must embrace our European future! #RejoinEU

Stephen Gethins MP is right - it has been reported that the majority of the public want to rejoin the EU, and it’s time for the Government to listen. Our future lies in Europe, not just aligning with them.

In times of global aid cuts, we continue to stand with those who need aid the most. We're providing €63 million to help Somalia’s most vulnerable people, affected by ongoing conflict, displacement, worsening drought, and soaring food prices. 👉 link.europa.eu/tRqDv4

Millions of young people are now facing the consequences of a referendum they were too young to vote in. If we truly care about future generations, we owe it to them to rebuild our ties with Europe and reopen the opportunities that Brexit has taken away.

It's positive that we're working closer with Europe, however aligning isn't enough. In reality, fully repairing our relationship is truly 'where the magic happens'.

25 years ago, the Treaty of Nice was signed, laying the foundations for the EU’s biggest enlargement, increasing the European Parliament to 732 seats and boosting its legislative powers. A milestone in strengthening European democracy. Read more: link.europa.eu/HpjPmy

In the local debate on the impact of the 2016 referendum on the UK, Pippa Heylings MP quoted the Chair of Cambridge for Europe, Dr Paul Browne: “the world of 2026 is not the world of 2016… Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine shows us that democracy, defence and economic security are one”.

Stop Reform #GortonAndDenton

So, Matt Goodwin cheated, he had a Nazi-sympathising campaign manager, a team of racist campaigners aligned to far right hate groups and he himself was accused of sexual harassment by a colleague at GBNews. Please god don’t inflict this foul piece of shit on the rest of us, #GortonandDenton

. The former Labour PM Gordon Brown is right - don't vote for the lying snake-oil salesman Nigel Farage and his bunch of second-rate tories in Thursday's byelection in Gorton and Denton! #r4today #bbcbreakfast #GMB #politicslive #PMQs #C4News #Newsnight #toriesgone600 #GortonAndDenton .

“British public want deeper economic ties with EU” Peter Kyle signs cooperation deal on competition and says it is not a case of being nostalgic for pre-#Brexit past www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The problems facing dual British nationals due to the change in passport rules have very real consequences for these babies from Walthamstow. As their MP I will not rest until these kids are safe and home with their families.

A full house for the debate in Westminster Hall today on the Impact of the 2016 EU Membership Referendum on the UK, as a result of over 11,000 of you writing to your MP to urge them to attend. Stephen Gethins MP has started the debate with a strong opening speech.

A decade after the referendum, these words from Warinder Juss MP and Helen Hayes MP ring truer than ever. It's time we stop dwelling on things that we cannot change in the past, and instead focus on how we can repair our relationship with Europe to ensure that we are part of a European future.

Today saw Westminster Hall full with MPs ready to debate Stephen Gethins MP's debate on the impact of the 2016 EU referendum on the UK. Thanks to the 11,000 of you who wrote to your MP to urge them to attend, the debate proved one important thing - we are winning the argument.

#Reform want to cut worker’s rights, and reduce Renters rights #Don’t vote #Reform

Nailed it

Just deeply unserious reporting from the BBC here, both on the politics and the numbers No mention of Trump/ICE and what deporting hundreds of thousands of people actually look like; and no scrutiny of Reform's entirely fictional/fantasy numbers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...