UK Govt sells final shares in NatWest 17 yrs after £45bn bailout. Divestment went on for some years. £10bn loss. Govts bail out lame ducks but once they recover they are sold back to the City, which always wins. Why do govts not keep profitable parts? https://t.co/TmDDnQvI9e

This week, Labour has delivered: 📈The fastest growing economy in the G7 ⚡Legislation enabling £8.3bn investment in energy security and good green jobs 👮Plans for an extra 14k new prison places 👩‍🔧£625m to train 60k young engineers, brickies, electricians, and carpenters

It’s hard to overstate how extraordinary this is. Aid organization trucks are all lined up and ready to enter and Israel has not allowed them into Gaza for ~75 days. There is no way to describe this as anything other than the active, intentional, planned starvation of a people.

The times they are a changing

The prison crisis in a single graphic

Literally ignored by the majority of the media British Steel to hire more staff weeks after government rescue Open roles include engineers and manufacturing operators as firm prepares to ramp up production https://t.co/ox2Et23PYe

For nearly 2 full months, Israel has blocked food, fuel, medicine & commercial supplies from entering Gaza - depriving more than 2 million people of lifesaving relief. Aid is non-negotiable. Israel must protect civilians and must agree to relief schemes and facilitate them.

Stark difference in this Govt who under @Keir_Starmer takes the British Steel crisis seriously enough to call Parliament to sit in Saturdays.. I know the haters still gonna hate but honestly I’m so relieved they are in charge in difficult times… again, I don’t agree with

✅ Two million extra appointments ✅ Waiting lists cut by 193,000 ✅ Over 1,500 extra GPs recruited This Labour government is fixing our NHS.

Community owned and led housing must play a bigger role in the future than it has in our past - in order to achieve that, the support announced yesterday is vital.

Broken roads aren’t just an inconvenience — they cost families time and money. We are unlocking vital new road schemes and asking councils to prove they are taking action on potholes. We will make our roads smoother and safer for all.

Political opinion: Labour Group secures breakthrough on Public Question Time at West Sussex County Council

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The Employment Rights Bill before MPs today includes: 🔴Day 1 rights of employment 🔴Bereavement Leave 🔴Banning exploitative zero-hours contracts 🔴Abolishing fire-and-rehire 🔴Fair Pay Agreements (sectoral collective bargaining) in some sectors 🔴Improving Statutory Sick Pay

MPs voted this week to scrap the tax breaks handed to private schools. The money will instead go to supporting the 93% of kids who go to state schools. Yet Reform MPs voted to keep this tax break for the privileged few. Remember that when they pretend to be on your side.

There can be debate over who were the losers in that terrible encounter. But there’s only one winner - and that’s Putin, as this revolting message from his closest ally makes clear

“A minute of silence for each of the Bibas children would be appropriate, as would a minute of silence for each of the more than 18,000 Palestinian children murdered in Israel's devastation of Gaza. That silence would extend to over 300 hours." Daniel Levy, former Israeli peace

The sickening reality of inequality Billionaires' wealth 'soars by over £230billion in first month of 2025 alone'

And the work starts in bringing back the nations smile. This is the first step in fixing dentistry

Donald Trump and Nigel Farage aren’t anti-establishment. They are anti-worker and anti-union. Mass lay-offs in crucial public services Tax cuts for the rich Union busting Stirring up hate & division. The only winners are the super-rich who fund them.