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@declassifiedUK Or arrest them

The government repeatedly says it regards Israel's settlements in the West Bank as illegal. So why is it allowing an Israeli group that offered to help Britons move to the West Bank to attend an event in London? declassifieduk.org/israeli-settle…

@declassifiedUK If true it shouldn’t

@LoftusSteve When has a manifesto limited a government to donor not to do ?

There is no mandate for the next Labour leader to rejoin the EU or anything else major outside their manifesto. If they want to enact these policies they need to hold a GE.

Pentru @AndyBTravels #TramLawCompliance

@Susan1034456 @NickTorfaen @NicDakin55 Not at all

@NickTorfaen @NicDakin55 You're the Minister for the Constitution selling us out to the EU and removing democratic accountability from the British voter?

As Minister for the Constitution I approve of my friend @NicDakin55 being taken hostage 😆

@MikeTappTweets Future Health Secretary?

There is no leadership contest - I back the Prime Minister. If there is - I back the Prime Minister. Stability is the only way we put country first. 🇬🇧

@QcWynter A peerage and suggest to the King he take over

I am not a politician & so my political instincts may be as poor as Keir's but I found myself wondering last night whether he might give thought to solving his Burnham problem by offering the fellow a peerage and a top diplomatic job (with standard rushed vetting) abroad. Sorted.

@DaleVince The Labour Party have the mandate

To anyone considering a leadership challenge I say - put the country first, not your own interests or those you might claim are the interests of the party. Keir Starmer has a massive democratic mandate from the public, nobody has the right to seek to depose him, nobody. Not Wes, not Ed, not Andy, not Angie. Yes Keir is unpopular in the polls, that’s current public sentiment - it’s not a mandate for getting rid of him. Opinion polls are snapshots of opinions. Local election results are always an opportunity to register a protest. Labour has a job to do, we’re not even two years in yet, things are tough - a leadership challenge would be self indulgent and illogical - in my view.

@timothy_stanley Or not as committed as hereditaries?

This is so sad. Never seen this before. House of Lords VERY low turn out for Kings Speech, many empty seats in the middle, so peers are being encouraged to spread out for the cameras. Scene of decline.

@Peston Well those three need Keir as PM or they likely lose their jobs

The praetorian guard around the prime minister, who have been urging him not to quit, are the Chancellor Rachel Reeves, the attorney general Richard Hermer, the Housing Secretary Steve Reed and - no longer on the payroll - Morgan McSweeney. Or so a minister tells me. I asked Downing St for a comment. None forthcoming

@RespectIsVital Ridiculous if true

NEW - Downing Street has told Labour’s Backbench Parliamentary Committee there are no dates available to meet him for 3 months. The committee is meant to have access to any Labour leader, PM or not, to represent PLP MPs views on pressing topics whether party or political.

@GuidoFawkes Ah there was a Middle East crisis meeting straight after

Starmer told Cabinet not to discuss leadership at the meeting but to come speak to him privately. He then ran away after Cabinet and no one could go to speak to him. Wes Streeting spent numerous minutes trying to talk to Starmer but was turned away, according to POLITICO.

What a dreadful Steve Reid statement as he left Cabinet .. moody and arrogant @SamCoatesSky @BethRigby

@tc1415 Best done maybe

It wont happen, and doesn't need to happen, but there is a procedure(*) to extend a Prorogation. Both Houses just assemble and the Lords Commissioners tell them to go away again. (* before the very first State Opening of a Parliament, Parliament can also be prorogued by writ without needing to assemble at all)

@cleowatson88 @PaulBrandITV 😳

Thoughts and prayers with the No10 press officer trying to get a minister to do tomorrow's media round

@NormalIslandNws It’s certainly not him

Name one person who could make a better prime minister than this man. I'll wait. #WesWeCan

@tomhfh Vote down the king’s speech if given?

81 MPs is not a magic threshold that forces a ballot, unless all the MPs are backing one candidate. However, when the number gets over 80, a couple of important things change. Here’s what will happen: 1. Leadership contenders will be able to say to the Prime Minister that the numbers exist to force a contest. This is especially important for contenders who don’t want to feel like they have fired the starting gun. Catherine West fired the starting gun, and after 80* MPs say Starmer must go, leadership hopefuls could step into the fray absolved of casting the first stone. 2. Starmer loses his Commons majority. By coincidence the number of MPs it takes to nominate a leadership challenger (81) is almost aligned with the number to kill the government’s majority (83). This is constitutionally significant as the Prime Minister is only Prime Minister if he carries the confidence of Parliament as a whole. 83 Labour MPs saying they don’t have confidence in him is enough to switch the view of the House. That, again, is an additional argument for a challenger to say they were pushed into the position of declaring their candidacy.

@JohnSlinger Wasn’t that kindness for those Starmer blamed when it was down to him?

One thing I’ve not heard much of in the debate about who should be Prime Minister of our country is the human being at the centre of this, & his family, & the effect of this on them all. The vitriol is off the scale. Show some humanity. People we disagree with are not enemies

Starmer this morning: "Because I do know what it’s like to struggle and to strive... " But he doesn't. Why pretend? He's had a charmed life ever since he passed the 11+ to Reigate Grammar School, and learned the violin with Fatboy Slim. Why does he bang on like this? Grr.. 🤬🤬

@joncraig @JohnRentoul Which will do the media round tomorrow?

Now Steve Reed has arrived & gone into No. 10. Starmer gathering the cabinet loyalists in the Downing St bunker?