Clearing out my grandparents flat this weekend and coming across these treasures - thank you cards from Denis Healey and Leeds MP Joe Dean - my grandfather made their suits. He was so proud of that.

Adored this payoff at the end of @PronouncedAlva's Wes Streeting interview https://t.co/AeUcp2Hude

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Government sources absolutely adamant no further concessions on the employment rights bill after it lost again in the Lords last night. “A deal’s a deal,” one says, which should calm trade union nerves. More ping pong next week.

As per Sky - Baroness Anne Longfield, the former children's commissioner, will chair the grooming gangs inquiry. Louise Casey wrote to survivors earlier to day saying that she had told the chair and panellists they must not shy away from uncomfortable truths.

Baroness Louise Casey writes to survivors today saying she hopes grooming gangs inquiry chair will now command their confidence. Mahmood will announce the chair later in statement to the House. from @geraldine_mck

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NEW - Chair and panellists for the grooming gangs inquiry is expected to be announced today by Shabana Mahmood

It’s a terrible indictment of maternity & neonatal care in this country that numerous reports have flagged these horrific issues and yet it still happens

UK will go further to stop ‘abusive’ Slapps lawsuits, Lammy says https://t.co/SMf1OJycjH

MY WEEKEND READ: ‘The only idea around’: will Labour return to a customs union with the EU? The desperate search for economic growth is pushing the party to confront the issue that dare not speak its name

Full story here - The leak will raise fresh questions over how much government control there has been behind Leadbeater’s bill. https://t.co/lZR8lCnCZz

EXC - I've seen a leaked policy document from Labour in opposition which sets out how to approach assisted dying. The document sets out how it could be introduced as a private member’s bill, suggesting that would still allow “heavy influence” for the government in the process

The agent loop, exposed as a primitive. Script it. Pipe it. Build on it. Spawn parallel instances across your monorepo. → npm install -g cline

❓️ The Bleak House analogy is cute but Jarndyce was a Chancery suit not criminal... there was no jury and it wasn't delayed by court capacity. Read it again, Lord Chancellor! (it's great)

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EXC - Angela Rayner is to lay a new amendment to the workers rights bill She will urge the government to move the unfair dismissal changes to begin next year not 2027 but accept the union negotiated changes MPs want to lay down a marker so the Lords don’t gut more of the bill

I haven't got a crystal ball but this kind of language does not bode well for the conclusions at 2.30

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@jessicaelgot @breeallegretti Starmer adds (unprompted) that publishing the Budget early was "a serious error" and "massive discourtesy to Parliament" from the OBR. But he concludes: "I am very supportive of the OBR." (My view: very hard now to see how Richard Hughes remains in place.)

PM says he’s not angry but from every bit of language he uses he seems fuming to me..

Speaking today, Keir Starmer says the UK has "walked through narrowest part of the tunnel" (sounds similar to the promise Reeves made last year) He says the government will go much further now on regulation, including nuclear, on welfare state reform, and trade with the EU

Saturday’s @guardian front page: Wealthy must pay to fix our creaky services, says Reeves https://t.co/i2hKUtuRPp

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I first asked at a lobby briefing about the possibility of improved forecasts on Nov 4 (after reading the @resfoundation pre Budget briefing which suggested this might happen) They said they were not going to preempt the OBR (which they already had seen)

If the government dropped income tax rate rises for political reasons, that’s one thing, but why then suggest it was because of a £20bn black hole which *the OBR had told them didn’t exist*? Remember what else was happening that week?