Labour MP Nadia Whittome tells Shabana Mahmood that her plans "fly in the face of decency and compassion" and "will force children and spouses into the hands of the very people smugglers that the Home Secretary is seeking to smash"

This document is the product of a broken administration, motivated by cynicism, immune to human decency, with a weak-to-non-existent understanding of the policy area they wish to legislate in.

“In post-Brexit politics, it’s hard to see how one out-Farages Nigel Farage. Yet that is what the Labour government is attempting to do. Copying Reform UK’s cruelty on asylum lets Mr Farage own the issue, outbid Labour and drive the debate rightward at no cost” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Leaving the ECHR would do nothing to halt small boat crossings, but it would deny British people hard-won rights." @MaxWilkinson.bsky.social

I’ll wait to see if this is actually announced. But if so… please can the PLP rise up. You owe it to your consciences, your voters, and the institution that is the Labour Party.

The Home Secretary’s planned sweeping changes to the immigration system have been branded 'vile and contemptible'

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Indeed. The BBC is in my view one of Britain‘s most important institutions. It is imperfect. Everything is. You destroy it at your peril. If ever there was a time to rally around something very British, it is now. Just an outsider‘s opinion.

(Any SpAd or pollster telling Mahmood and the government that Reform voters will even remember this policy, let alone reward them for it, in 4 years time needs their head examining)

The political arguments also just don’t make sense. If this was being announced in November 2028, you could at least say “ok this is a stunt for the general election in a few months”. Instead they’ve done it at a time when it serves no purpose whatsoever

I’m so goddam tired of this. Aren’t you? Aren’t we all? What’s got better since successive governments scapegoated and vilified immigrants? Absolutely nothing. It can’t.

I despair of Labour. Can we not just have a sensible budget, delivered on the day, that apologises for hard choices and then just gets on with giving us something that will give us some hope? All this briefing and speculation makes them look like clowns.

Trump wants to destroy the BBC and Farage is egging him on. To all those who love the BBC, now is the time to speak up.

A decade ago, the Telegraph was a respectable paper. Now it’s a low-quality treasonous tabloid.

🚨UPDATE WITH COMMENT FROM THE BBC: Byline Times can confirm that of the four-person BBC panel that interviewed Prescott and made the decision to appoint him as an advisor, three of them had longstanding Conservative Party ties. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

Journalist, "Farage accused the BBC of election interference" Ed Davey, "The interference we've seen is from Farage's friend, Putin" "We've seen Russian interference in the most appalling way"

THIS, once more.

Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

I don't often call for resignations. But Sir Robbie Gibb's role in the BBC boardroom coup makes his continued role there untenable. He must resign or be removed

Gibb is the primary problem. As are several current and former Tories and, frankly, their cronies and donors. Get rid of Gibb.

If, as several people are suggesting this morning, the DG and News CEO were prevented from issuing an apology re Panorama last week by the board, it seems extremely urgent that the chair of the board clarify what happened

I still feel exactly the same emotions that I did on the morning of 24 June 2016 and it continues to astonish me that so many continue just to shrug it all off. No one expects to be able to rejoin tomorrow, but we should start planning for the day after.

As many, many, many people have been saying from the start, Labour should have been honest about Brexit all the way through. Every lie, every ‘jobs-first Brexit’, every ‘make Brexit work’ has been a nail in Labour’s coffin.

Very poor from the government: it won't review suitability of X for its communications, and insists on keeping secret its previous review.

"Musk’s Grok is among the AI models pushing Russian state propaganda, actually citing Russian state media sites, when prompted about the war in Ukraine." For the millionth time: Why in the name of all that is good is the Government still addicted to X? open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...

Brexit and McSweeney. Labour need to have a serious conversation about both of these abominations or Starmer will be finished.

What is the point of our national broadcaster if it can't get the official Opposition to answer questions like this?

I want to think that this clip along with the Katie Lam madness represents the end of the Faragist cul-de-sac the Tories have gone down.

When Trump bullies Canada, Britain can’t stay silent. The Prime Minister needs to come out and clearly criticise these tantrum tariffs, not sit on the fence. 🇬🇧🇨🇦 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Readers need to realise that the supposedly refined and respectable British Conservatives are now more extreme than Trump’.

£75,000 for 164 flags. This is how Reform will spend your money.

Plaid Cymru won the Caerphilly by-election overnight, with Reform pushing Labour into a distant third. Plaid got 47% of the vote on a record turnout, suggesting to me that there was some tactical voting to keep Reform out, which won 36%. A factor that could be underpriced in a general election.

The bleakly funny thing about this story is that visibly *this morning* the Conservative leadership had not absorbed just how crackers the policy they had signed up to was.

We shall never forget. (Oosterbeek War Cemetery. #WW2 #HISTORY)

My party, the @libdems.org.uk need to make more of this! It’s what they believe!

Is it just me or does this feel like Groundhog Day?

Russian roulette.

Labour, by their own admission, are choosing to do what they think is electorally to their advantage, rather than what would be best for the country. Rejoining the EU would put everyone in a better place. It’s a strange and somewhat baffling way to lose an election. Poor judgment on steroids.

This makes no sense. 1. Brexit is at least two things: Being out of the EU and being out of the Single Market. 2. Both of these can be reversed. 3. To blame a reversible problem for your harmful economic decisions, while still refusing to reverse that problem, is the behaviour of a fool.

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia. I disagree. RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

I for one wasn't aware they'd even started.

“London hits 'historic' clean air milestone 184 years early…a 'truly remarkable turnaround for the city's air quality.” Quite a leadership achievement for @london.gov.uk’s government! While nations talk, (some) cities act. And get results.

Sorry, but if you're saying those implausible and shallow Kemi Badenoch announcements constitute a good speech then you're part of the UK's political problem. Same half-baked "tax cut good / international commitments bad" bearing no resemblance to well formed policy.

She's nothing if not predictable, is she? I know the Tories aren't keen on anything Green these days, but pretty much all they've done this week is recycle stuff they've been banging on about--for the most part fruitlessly--for the last decade and a half. And today it's "Mickey Mouse" degrees. 🙄

We will stand strong where others back down. We will not pander to Reform. We will fight to protect our environment, stand up for decency and the rule of law, and stop Trump’s America from becoming Farage’s Britain. If you share those values, now is the time to join the Liberal Democrats.

My message to the millions of One Nation conservatives who reject the divisive politics of Badenoch and Farage is this: Come and join us. Help us save our country. Come and win with us.

Does the UK have a Culture Secretary, with responsibility for this stuff, who might take an interest in how media regulation works? If there is such a person, does anyone know what she/he does all day?