They called you a ‘bigot’ if you questioned whether women had a penis.
Then, a ‘flat-earther’ if you want to stop ULEZ.
Now you’re a ‘racist’ if you vote for Susan Hall.
Welcome to a society run by Labour. They’ll shame you until you do as you’re told.
Thank you to everyone who joined us outside Parliament on Monday.
More than 200,000 people signed Esther Rantzen's petition, triggering an emotional Westminster Hall debate where MPs from every major political party voiced their support for change.
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NEW: it's a no from us...
Govt decline Ireland bid to return asylum seekers unless France agrees to do the same....
Source:
“We won't accept any asylum returns from the EU via Ireland until the EU accepts that we can send them back to France.
“We are fully focused on…
A very thoughtful
@zoenora6
piece on how MPs feel about assisted dying ahead of a Westminster Hall debate tomorrow
Starmer has pledged to hold a free vote on the issue if he becomes PM
ft the thoughts of
@justinmadders
,
@vickyfoxcroft
&
@mattwarman
🚨 EXCLUSIVE
The ECHR must be reformed if it is used to block flights to Rwanda, leading members of the One Nation Tories warn today
@DamianGreen
and
@mattwarman
also urge their party to unite behind stopping Starmer ahead of next week’s local elections
There are lots of problems with our railway, but asking the state to run it is likely to make them worse.
Hard to imagine a Labour government taking on the rail unions and their inefficient practices. And hard for rail to compete vs health, defence, police etc for investment.
BREAKING: UK is putting its defence industry on a "war-footing" - investing £10 billion to ramp up production- as part of a plan to increase defence spending by 2.5% by 2030, Prime Minister
@RishiSunak
has declared.
This is a really big deal
🧵Do culture wars they benefit politicians who engage in them? New
@Moreincommon_
research for
@38degrees
deploys a series of public opinion experiments & finds politicians have more to lose than gain, and risk appearing desperate, increasing cynicism & alienating swing voters
A national newspaper columnist arguing this week that in relation to getting a GP appointment "more chance of a blind date with a unicorn, quite frankly". What does the actual evidence say? Thanks to the incredibly hard work of GPs and their teams....1/x
The harm that Matthew Parris’s article has done to this noblest of causes in a single day is immense. It must not be allowed to obscure the real issues at stake and the nuanced arguments they require.
I feel so conflicted about assisted dying.
I’m one of a minority who voted in favour of the last Bill before the Commons.
In the last six months I’ve watched two people I loved die slowly and painfully, wishing it could end sooner.
Matthew Parris’ argument is chilling.
As Media Minister, I believe in a press free of control by government or governments. Today, we have committed to amend our media merger regime to explicitly rule out newspaper and periodical news magazine mergers involving ownership, influence or control by foreign states.