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Dear UK voters, today is the day to watch whether your MP is still attempting to defend the indefensible. Are they putting your views first, telling the PM to resign, or toadying for the PM's inevitable reshuffle after May's elections when they want to be in line for a promotion?

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YouGov / Sky News / Times voting intention RefUK 27%(+3) CON 17%(-2) GRN 17%(-1) LAB 16%(-1) LD 14%(+1)

@EastMidRailway I want to give huge thanks to Sydney, train manager on the 11:11 service to Sheffield for helping us sort out our ticket situation after I accidentally lost one of them. Huge help and great First Class service

🚨 BREAKING: Starmer left trapped inside No. 10 for several hours after no one told him he needs to open the door to leave. "It's staggering. No one told me the operating procedure for the front door. Unforgivable. I've lost confidence in my team and they will have to resign".

@nationalrailenq I’m due to travel from Manchester Piccadilly to Nuneaton this morning about 10:30. Avanti have advised none of their services will be calling at Nuneaton and to get a service to Crewe and change there. Do you have any further advice?

@AvantiWestCoast Thank you Kim you’ve been brilliant, hope you have a great day

@markt1985 You can get one of our service to Crewe and then change for a London North Western Railway service to Nuneaton. - Kim

@AvantiWestCoast Are all services out of Manchester Piccadilly cancelled today? We need to get to Nuneaton for a wedding

@AvantiWestCoast Crewe sorry not Birmingham

@AvantiWestCoast Ok so get a train to Birmingham then Birmingham to Nuneaton

@AvantiWestCoast Also on National Rail site

@AvantiWestCoast Journeycheck .com

@AvantiWestCoast Sorry, I’m looking at your disruption page on the website and it is saying all trains are cancelled including the 11:34 and 12:34 out of Manchester Piccadilly

@markt1985 You're welcome. - Kim

@AvantiWestCoast Thanks for your help

@markt1985 That's correct. - Kim

@AvantiWestCoast Ok thanks for clearing it up, so basically get to Manchester Piccadilly and just wait for an available train?

@markt1985 Yes, this service is cancelled. Your ticket will now be valid for travel on the 2 service before, or after your cancelled train. Your ticket wouldn't be valid from Preston unfortunately. - Kim

@AvantiWestCoast So is that train definitely cancelled? If so could we travel from Preston to Birmingham and change there?

@markt1985 Network Rail are planning to open some, but not all platforms at Manchester Piccadilly. For this reason we have had to reduce our timetable to 2 train per hour, unfortunately. - Kim

@AvantiWestCoast But I’ve already had an email saying my train at 10:34 from MAN to NUN is cancelled

@markt1985 Hi there. We have no route out of Manchester Piccadilly until 07:00. Network Rail have estimated handing back the lines at this time and then we'll be able to resumed services from Manchester. - Kim

Gary Neville is, sorry, was a red.

This is the reason why we can never reform healthcare in the UK — or even have a sensible debate about it. The moment anyone suggests alternative/additional ways of funding health Labour rushes out privatisation smears and claims US private health insurance is being proposed. Labour has been doing it for decades. It explains why the NHS is effectively beyond reform. The two worst health systems in the rich world are in America and the UK. It’s why nobody has ever copied them. It would be mad to go from ours to theirs (or vice versa). But Europe is awash with health systems that can call on several sources of funds, including many with compulsory public health insurance schemes. They have better health outcomes than the NHS. They are free at the point of use (like the NHS). Most of them are better funded. But Labour puts them out of bounds, refuses even to discuss or consider. So patient care suffers. NHS struggles on. Labour is always telling us we need to get closer to Europe. It’s where we belong. But not when it comes to health, where it insists no lessons can be learned. Pretty pathetic, really.

They will never be forgotten 🙏 Today we stand in solidarity with @LFC in remembrance of the 97 fans who lost their lives as a result of the Hillsborough disaster, which occurred on 15 April 1989.