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@griffitha @CCHQPress Pretty daft of Vincent to invest into the industry ie his own cash when he’s of the view the industry a black hole for cash and dead. He’s locked in now can’t escape.

Socialists presumably don’t believe people should eat out. Certainly their actions in respect of the hospitality sector imply Rachel Reeves must hate it with a passion. Business rates, employment costs, taxes and red tape all up.

@owenjonesjourno Erm not Vietnam or Iraq? Vietnam was clearly a larger humiliation and went on for a decade +

This is Iran's 10 point plan - which Trump has accepted as "a workable basis on which to negotiate." Have no doubt: This is the biggest strategic defeat suffered by the US since its emergence as a superpower.

@TrisOsborneMP All good but your poll ratings in the toilet so something not working? Maybe jacking up taxes to solve problems not the brightest move

Minimum wage rising 📈 State pension increasing 💷 Two child limit abolished 🏡 Child poverty falling 📉 Rights at work strengthened 💪🏻 Renewable energy ⚡️ Labour promised change. We are delivering change.

@afneil He has no idea he parrots party line and isn’t capable of producing a forecast or understanding it. Literally a lemming.

So please tell me how you will make it happen, estimated costs — and when will it happen?

@JAHeale Kyle has reading age of an 8yr old apparently so probs a good move. In difficult times need your best not someone who literally can't read.

Sun reports that Liz Kendall and Peter Kyle are for the cabinet chop - which would mean three respective Science and Business Secretaries in less than two years

@MikeHolden42 @lewis_goodall He's trying to articulate a real problem. Starmer is clearly in trouble 2 safe seats gone, 1 they came 3rd, <20% in the polls, personal popularity in the gutter and FT predicting total wipeout in May. Someone needs to investigate burying head not clever.

Publishes a hit piece on the Prime Minister (as many have, for many PMs). But @lewis_goodall is horrified to discover that a PM with a majority actually has supporters prepared to counter it. This is when it becomes problematic - when a journalist can't accept some may disagree.

@NotFarLeftAtAll Wow he's mental clear admission he lives in a fantasy world and doesn't understand the real world. Can someone not explain to him when he borrow money for his mortgage/bank they charge a price on likelihood of repayment just like the UK does when it borrows?

🤡 Embarrassing… Zack Polanski hasn’t got a Clue and neither have his voters

@ZiaYusufUK He was still doing his a levels aged 25 and has the reading age of an 8yr old so no surprises he isn't on top of the details. Quite hard to grip detail when you basically can't read.

Peter Kyle, the Minister for Business and Trade doesn’t even know what the headline unemployment rate in Britain is. Even a casual observer of the news would know this. For decades, this country has been run by bluffing, braindead clowns.

@martindvz They came 3rd in the last by election in a rock solid ex Lab safe seat! How is that popular. The polling and unpopularity shown in the polls is reflected in real life voting (by elections, local elections etc)

The nonstop attacks on Starmer continue. Despite his popularity with the British public.

@lewis_goodall Probs worth doing another doc then on them. Brits know why Starmer is unpopular this is less clear.

@PamelaWhyt19466 @SamCoatesSky He joined reform and left you gov in 2018 and sold all his shares so has 0%. Other than that accurate post!

@SamCoatesSky Yougov ownd by your tory pal zahawi nobody believes any polls

YouGov / Sky / Times voting intention RefUK 23%(-2) LAB 19%(+2) CON 17%(nc), GRN 18%(-1) LDEM 13%(-1) Pollster note: While changes are all within the margin of error, this does put the Greens back into third place (presumably as the publicity impact of Denton & Gorton gradually recedes).

@richardpbacon Starmer all over the place one min we aren't in the next we're getting threatened by Tehran. He's unbelievably managed to piss off Trump and Iran at the same time due to straddling the fence with feet dangling on both sides.

@jamese_uk Bond markets seem to think Starmer is worse and following the money always a good one. Can either follow the money or the opinion polls both are killer for Starmer. He's as good as Lab have unfortunately Rayner and Miliband would be 10x worse.

Still can't believe that the people who brought us Boris Johnson and Liz Truss have the f**king temerity to even suggest that Kier Starmer is the worst Prime Minister ever. It's not even remotely close.

@DPJHodges @TerraOrBust Half in half out again. He doesn’t know anymore he gets lost and can’t make clear decisions as clueless.

I genuinely have no idea what Starmer's stance on this conflict is any more.

@Alexarmstrong Bangs on about the Brexit bus and fibbing but never calls out his man Starmers own pledges which actually worked out to be full fiction.

Another whopper from James O’Brien who claims he’s ‘sick of being right about everything’ 😆 Isn’t this the man who vehemently backed Labour and Keir Starmer? He’s slamming Boris for lockdowns, but he called people “stupid” for not wanting them earlier. Serious self delusion.

@FraserNelson Stack is a rebrand from Kasei digital which was a total failure. CEO remains the same person ie performance will be the same just got some heavyweight politicians in for noise. Surely will flop.

- Farage buys £215k of shares in a crypto company and instantly doubles his money. - Reform is now outspending every other party, thanks to crypto king donations Could crypto money reshape UK politics as quickly as it has America's ? My column:- comment.press/refc

@BenInRushcliffe Really? Didn’t work!

The PM has maintained a defensive strategy. Nothings changed.

@PolitlcsUK I thought Starmer was adamant he wouldn’t get involved. So he’s somehow managed to piss the USA off by being evasive plus half put us on the war and at risk. Genius.

🚨 BREAKING: Iran has fired two missiles at the UK-US base on Diego Garcia after the UK allowed the US to use it for strikes

@MerrynSW Most likely sacked so Starmer can blame someone else for failure. Sue Gray and Morgan M fell the same way.

More of this pls. The quitting for not getting jobs done bit.

@LiamHalligan This video should be replayed whenever there is a risk Rayner might end up near power . She'd make Miliband chancellor and we'd turn into a total basket case. youtube.com/watch?v=sqTxfz…

This story below reveals the true extent of Angela Rayner's cluelessness when it comes to economics, the public finances and financial markets. I say that not with glee - but deep alarm and regret. If this is really how the probable next Prime Minister of the UK thinks - betting markets put a more than 50% chance on leadership coup by June - then the ousting of Starmer/Reeves by Rayner (or Miliband) is likely to spark an instant spike in gilt yields, from their already elevated levels. Just the fact that Rayner has said what she has below will put yet more upward pressure on the market-driven borrowing costs – whatever the Bank of England says is these days mere mood – that drive the interest rates faced by firms and households. I have nothing against more social housing – on the contrary, the arguments in favour of building more are at the heart of my book "Home Truths", along with policy mechanisms that could get that done. But if you think that, in the current environment, hard-nosed international creditors do - or even should - give a monkey's about the "social benefits" of subsidised housing then you are utterly and dangerously deluded. Again, I say this in sorrow, not glee. I knew plenty of smart people at the top of successive Blair governments. The architects of New Labour – at least the Blairites – always made sure there were financially literate and market-savvy people in the room when big decisions were made. That was important back then - when the national debt Britain had to service was 35pc of GDP. Now – with the same metric pushing 100pc of GDP and Britain paying more than Morocco to borrow money – it is absolutely vital. It seems that there is no-one – NO-ONE AT ALL – near the top of today's Labour government who has the first clue about the realities of public accounts and global finance. These are – once again – NOT tribal or party-political points, but statements of cold fact ....