After 13 years of this government, our politics has increasingly been dragged into disrepute by cronyism, scandals and - as always happens with a Tory government - by sleaze.
Good write up of my first Business Questions yesterday. 👇🏻
3 PMs since 2019 UK election and 3 FMs since 2021 Scottish election.
What a shambles and a total dereliction of duty when the public need their governments the most.
Time to let the public decide.
Time to put country before party.
Labour offer the change Scotland needs.
I get that David Cameron may need to charter a plane when travelling to multiple countries in one week, but that does not justify spending hundreds of thousands of pounds at taxpayers' expense to hire one of the most luxurious private jets on the market.
“Off the cuff with no notes… I was full of vigour, fighting like hell.”
Lord Kinnock tears up looking back at his time as leader of the Labour Party. 🌹
Listen now 👉 …
@lewis_goodall
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@GlobalPlayer
🚨NEW: Former Tory minister defects to Labour🚨
Conservative MP Dan Poulter says Tories have become a “nationalist party of the right” which has abandoned compassion & the NHS
Story:
It’s fantastic to welcome Dr Dan Poulter MP to today’s changed Labour Party.
It’s time to end the Conservative chaos, turn the page, and get Britain’s future back. I’m really pleased that Dan has decided to join us on this journey.
Big team out today for Julie Jarman in Ancoats and Beswick. Julie would be a very hard-working, diligent and committed candidate - please vote for her on Thursday.
#votelabour
📽️ Blackpool Teaching Hospital has missed its A&E wait targets since 2015 - 5years before the pandemic but 5 years after the Conservatives came to power.
👇 I asked the Deputy Prime Minister who is at fault for NHS wait times.
Good to get a shout out from shadow commons leader
@LucyMPowell
in yesterday's Business Statement, as she calls out the late tabling of amendments watering down the Renters (Reform) Bill.
Another week, another litany of problems for the government. Last week scandal and internal positioning, this week a catalogue of failings.
This really is the reverse midas touch government - only they could turn what should be popular pledges into such a vote losers.
🚨JUST ANNOUNCED: Labour will create Great British Railways.
Under Labour our railways will be:
✅Publicly owned
✅Passenger focused
✅Fit for the future
Only Labour has a plan to get our trains back on track:
'We'll bring the private operators into public ownership as the contract expires'
Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh spoke to
#BBCBreakfast
about plans to renationalise most passenger rail services within five years
'The Bill isn’t fit for purpose, it must be strengthened for the benefit of renters.'
Shadow housing minister
@mtpennycook
earlier outlined
@UKLabour
's view on the
#RentersReformBill
Every party must stand up and make this Bill deliver the promise of a 'fairer deal for renters'
.
@AngelaRayner
absolutely bossed it at
#PMQs
- highlighting the governments failings for renters, leaseholders & the homeless. The DPM had nothing to say.
They’ve given up on governing
Angela Rayner turns her attention to the ban on new leaseholds, which she says doesn't go far enough.
Dowden replies by accusing Rayner of wanting to sweep away all but one of the Tory govt's reforms: "the right to buy your council house".
#PMQs