Rob

Lib Dems Ed Davey has taken a stronger line than the PM:

The right could have focused on attacking employer NICs as a tax on jobs. Instead, they're focusing on billionaires upset about paying IHT on their farms and private schools fees. Labour will be fine with that.

Soon we’ll be launching a change to how the block function works. If your posts are set to public, accounts you have blocked will be able to view them, but they will not be able to engage (like, reply, repost, etc.).

NEW: Four out of five members of the new Independent Alliance group voted *in favour* of retaining VAT tax breaks for private schools Jeremy Corbyn was the only member of the anti-war, anti-austerity caucus not to vote for the Conservative motion this afternoon

On Wednesday night, the BBC will airing the nuclear apocalypse film 'Threads' for the fourth time ever. It was aired originally in 1984, then repeated in 1985 and was last broadcast by on BBC Four in 2003.

Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.

While prepping to interview Boris Johnson tomorrow,  by mistake I sent our briefing notes to him in a message meant for my team. That obviously means it’s not right for the interview to go ahead. It’s very frustrating, and there’s no point pretending it’s anything other than embarrassing and disappointing, as there are plenty of important questions to be asked. But red faces aside, honesty is the best policy. See you on Sunday.

It does not mean what it used to mean More than half of people who do professional jobs - managers, doctors, lawyers - say they are “working class” People love talking up their origins - but a quarter of people whose *parents* did middle class jobs say they’re working class