RT @AdamBienkov: Reform UK's Darren Grimes tells constituents he can't hold surgeries with them because he's been advised by the police not….

Reform UK's Darren Grimes tells constituents he can't hold surgeries with them because he's been advised by the police not to do so for "security reasons". The only problem? Police spokesperson says this is entirely untrue and they gave no such advice.

Kemi Badenoch is refusing to sack her party's London leader despite her backing a far-right group calling for the mass deportation of millions of people living legally in the UK. A spokesperson says other Tory members should be free to join the group.

"The bar for ‘not looking racist’ is unbelievably low and yet we still struggle to clear it".

After a Treasury spokesperson says Rachel Reeves was upset at PMQs due to a personal matter, Kemi Badenoch's spokesman tells journalists that "something strange is going on" and insists the Chancellor immediately disclose what is happening in her personal life

A Treasury spokesperson says Rachel Reeves was upset due to a personal matter.

Kemi Badenoch mocking a visibly upset Rachel Reeves at PMQs is really not a good look, given we don't yet know what has happened.

It's quite something for those in Downing Street to get a reputation for being cruel to disabled and older people. It's quite another for them to get a reputation for not even being competent enough to follow through on their plans to be cruel to disabled and older people.

A bid to balance the books on the back of disabled people has ended up. costing the Treasury hundreds of millions of pounds more

The Conservative party's leader in London is now endorsing a far right group calling for the mass deportation of millions of people who are legally resident in the UK. This apparently is not considered a problem by Kemi Badenoch

The leader of the Conservative party on the London Assembly and their former London mayoralty candidate now openly supporting what is essentially a rival political party, in all but name. How has she still got the party whip?

MPs vote to approve (what's left of) the welfare bill by 335 to 260. One of the most shambolic days I can remember in Parliament. Up there with the worst of the Johnson era.

MPs vote against Rachael Maskell's reasoned amendment seeking to kill off the welfare bill by 328 to 149. Will now vote on the second reading of the (almost entirely gutted) bill itself.

Quite something that MPs are voting on something called the 'Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill', which now doesn't actually include any changes to Personal Independence Payments.

MPs now voting on the reasoned amendment by Labour MPs, seeking to block the welfare bill from passing at all.

Timms unable to even say how much (if anything) the welfare bill will now save. Says figures will be put out later "in the usual way". MPs voting in the dark. Would be far better simply to pull the bill altogether and start again.

There's going to be very little of the original bill still intact by the time this passes. Months of worry for disabled people, buckets loads of lost political capital among Labour MPs and all for what will end up as relatively marginal savings.

Badenoch doing a brilliant job of uniting the Labour benches.

Kemi Badenoch actually going with the line that everything would have been brilliant about the Conservative government's record on welfare and the economy, if it weren't for Covid, and insists the country was lucky they were in charge when the pandemic hit.

Liz Kendall, whose disability benefits cuts are set to push 150,000 more disabled people into poverty, according to her own Government's analysis, tells MPs her plans are "rooted in compassion".