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❤️ #ShakespeareSunday Proceed, sweet Cupid: thou hast thumped him with thy bird-bolt under the left pap. LOVE'S LABOUR 'S LOST IV:3

@PolitlcsUK Oh, FFS. What a downgrade Burnham is going to be.

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham will promise to give Britain "more breathing space" when he addresses the nation tomorrow He will say he is "acutely conscious" he is the 7th PM in 10 years but Brits can once again "look to the future with hope and unity"

El mundo apoya a Espana. 🇪🇸 Vamos a Espana. 🇪🇸

@DPJHodges Oh, spare me.

So a phrase I understand we're going to be hearing a lot in the days, weeks and months ahead is "Giving people the space to breathe". That's going to be the Burnham mantra.

@TomSoede OK. Let me stop you at 'Keir Starmer resigned.' Keir Starmer was BULLIED into resigning. Andy Burnham, Lucy Powell, and Lou Haigh were briefing the press against him as if their lives depended on it. Their ultimatum: "Resign by Tuesday or else..." That's tyranny, NOT democracy

I need to be clear. I might lose followers over this. I understand why many Labour members are angry. They paid their membership fees and wanted a say. I wasn’t happy with how it unfolded either. But procedurally, there wasn’t a membership ballot because: Keir Starmer resigned. Andy Burnham secured the backing of enough Labour MPs to become the only nominated candidate. No other candidate qualified for the ballot. So what exactly would members have voted on if there was only one candidate? You may not like the process. I understand that. But those were the party’s rules. We need to move forward now. Because the alternative is spending years fighting each other while Reform and the Conservatives benefit. I admired Keir’s leadership. Politics has a habit of surprising us, so who knows what the future holds. In the meantime… I’ll be in Clacton supporting Count Binface. Yes, really. 😊

@HonestHalo If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you. You don't have to be in the PLP to plot, and 'dear leader' was plotting for well over a year.

Loved seeing Andy Burnham address the rumours head-on. He wasn’t directly involved in the decisions that led to Keir Starmer stepping down he simply wasn’t in Parliament for those PLP calls. Starmer faced enormous challenges: poor local results, Reform pressure, opposition criticism, activist voices, and wider pressures home and abroad.Rather than drag it out, he chose the national interest and a smooth handover. That says a lot about putting country before self. Two capable Labour figures. One delivered the 2024 win, the other now brings proven local leadership and devolution plans. Let’s hope this means better focus on the people who need it most. Brits,are we optimistic or worried about what comes next?

@BattaCrick16179 @NHSMillion Sunak was a special case. He'd been through a leadership contest 7 WEEKS before he was appointed and was the runner-up. So, his policies had had bags of scrutiny, unlike Andy Burnham's.

@BeheadedQueens @NHSMillion ?

Only one of the last five Prime Ministers initially became PM by winning a general election. So why has Andy Burnham got so many people’s knickers in a twist? Keir Starmer ✅ Rishi Sunak ❌ Liz Truss ❌ Boris Johnson ❌ Theresa May ❌

@PecksniffsDiary @Steven_Swinford @LucyMPowell a) she's anti-democratic, being one of the main movers in a coup that was deliberately engineered to deny the membership a voice b) she's been caught lying on camera repeatedly c) she's gaslighting us when she says she "speaks for the membership" d) she's untrustworthy

@BeheadedQueens @Steven_Swinford @LucyMPowell You don't seem to like her much. May I ask why?

Lucy Powell says the attacks on Ed Miliband as senior allies of Andy Burnham moved to stop him from becoming Chancellor have been 'horrible' and 'unedifying'

🦔 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 🦔 Watch this mother Hedgehog and her baby drink from a simple bowl of water. Now imagine a summer without it. We've paved, fenced and tidied our gardens until there's nowhere left for the small lives that used to share them. No gaps to pass through. No shelter. And on a hot day, not a single drop to drink. 𝐒𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 Your garden can flip from problem to solution faster than almost anything else you own. Put out a shallow bowl of water with a stone in it so nothing drowns. Cut a Hedgehog-sized hole in the fence. Let a corner grow wild. Plant native flowers and a few berrying shrubs. They may be a mall acts, but multiply them across a street, a neighbourhood, a country, and you've built a living network no nature reserve could match. #WildlifePhotography #Hedgehog 🦔 🎦 Credit: Unknown (DM for credit).

@Vinc_Ev_ 😂🤣😂

🚨 Breaking : Andy Burnham will not be wearing a shirt and tie whilst PM

These look comfortable Susan Ryder interiors artist Except this is outside. Really love her paintings ‘Deck Chairs at Coudray’

@liambyrnemp Re-industrialise Britain? 🏭🏭🏭 HELLO?!! 🌍 Earth to .@andyburnham This is 2026, not 1976, and there's this little problem called GLOBAL WARMING...

Andy Burnham enters Downing Street promising to rewire our economy, reindustrialise Britain and put hope in every heart. But what political economy can turn those ambitions into a governing project? In a new essay, I argue that Labour should build on the emerging ideas of “Tribunomics” - activist macroeconomics, modern supply-side reform and a more capable state - but connect them to a larger purpose. That purpose should be a deep and equal freedom: the real freedom that comes from possessing the security, wealth and power to shape your own life. This weeks essay: open.substack.com/pub/liambyrne/…

@christopherhope Gag a maggot.

Another idea - apparently - is for the new PM to use a lectern, but one which features Burnham's campaign logo on the front, perhaps "FOR US". Constitutional experts will want to see the coat of arms of HM Government on display but ...

More speculation about Andy Burnham's first speech as Prime Minister in Downing Street tomorrow: he may not use the traditional lectern. Sources close to his team tell me: "Wait and see." More at @GBNEWS now.

I was asked yesterday what neoliberalism is. This is the answer:

VAMOSSS ESPAÑA 🇪🇸🌟🌟🇪🇸

@utdmax0 David Beckham did, back in the day... Also, Michael Owen. Real Madrid have an eye for England's goal scorers.

Excluding Jude Bellingham Name an ENGLISH player who has played for REAL MADRID… Very hard.

I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.

'Foxgloves And Finches' by Annie Soudain, contemporary UK printmaker #womensart #summer