Helen Lister

Representation of the People Act 1983, “treating” is considered a corrupt practice. The pre-election period for local authorities will start from the publication of a notice of election, this will be no later than Monday 30 March. This might be considered “treating”.

@Parody_PM An amoeba.

Name something more intelligent than Lee Anderson.

7 hours of silence from the Prime Minister. The US is using UK bases. The President is openly talking about destroying a civilisation. And Downing Street says... nothing. If you won’t speak up now, when will you?

It's now been 3 hours since our supposed "ally" Donald Trump threatened genocide on a country of 93 million people. We've had absolutely nothing from the UK government. This doesn't come in a vacuum either - every day the US & Israel have been murdering innocent people.

And the plan is to win the rollback of all our hard won rights, as well as to cut taxes for the richest, all by weaponising hatred of immigrants 🤷‍♀️ Handy, racism, innit.

#C4News "The strait of Hormuz is actually open if you're not part of the war" "The Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, have got ships through" "The idea that the strait of Hormuz is not open is not true" "It is closed if you are supporting the illegal war" "They have hit 30 universities" "They have hit 600 schools" "These are war crimes" "66% of the Iranian diaspora in the USA are against this war" "Iran a couple of 93 million people now has people suffering from toxins because petrochemical plants have been bombed, it is egregious to suggest that people want to be bombed" Well said @sanambna

Will any of the 73 MPs in Labour Friends of Israel ( the lobbying group which exists to promote the state of Israel ) pipe up & react to this absolute evil from the country which sponsors them ? Still struggling to understand why foreign governments are allowed to buy UK MPs .

Close all US bases on British soil, now.

Call me crazy, but we shouldn't have to wake up every day trying to figure out if the president of the United States is trying to manipulate the market or start a nuclear war.

@BenGrahamUK You do know ‘Easter’ eggs were around long before Christianity — from ‘pagan’ worship — symbolic of spring and rebirth..? Christianity ‘borrowed’ that, like it stole Yuletide and Midwinter celebrations for Christmas.

Britain has been a Christian nation for over 1,400 years. Through wars, plagues, and countless kings, Easter has always been celebrated. Yet now, Cadbury won’t even use the word ‘Easter’ on their eggs. When did celebrating British traditions become controversial?

@BenGrahamUK @dariusimperator So, you troubled to photograph the display and upload your photo with a post, but you didn’t bother to actually look at the boxes…? What sort of lazy idiot are you?

@dariusimperator Not wildly offended I just asked a simple question.

@BBCSounds has BBC Sounds left X…? No recent posts and I need to report a problem.

@FanaticElon F

DIFFICULTY VERY HARD This is tricky, identify Elon Musk's mouth! Which one is it? Correct answer wins $400

@Arden_2210 Threat; thought; thrust; trust; tryst; I could go on…

Accept the challenge Be Honest

@pressrecalling1 @JWard7217276607 @akafaceUS @RupertLowe10 To where? He’s British.

@JWard7217276607 @akafaceUS @RupertLowe10 This is a bigger problem. And growing #Deport them all now

A British father was heading out with his family to attend a football match when they encountered a man urinating on their fence and blocking their path at the gate. While the father tried to reason with the man as his children cried, he eventually took decisive action to resolve the situation.

@ronsterd89 1975-78

What is your guess as to what year this photo was taken?

@Matt_Pinner All 20 for me.

6 for me!! I feel confident nobody Has all 20 How many for you?

@docrussjackson And the grift goes on

@Ali_900r @Telegraph “outways that adjective”…? Do you mean ‘outweighs that objective’…?

@Telegraph He really wants to be seen as a good man, but his personal ambition outways that adjective.

🔴 'Sir Keir’s political record is not that of “a decent man”. It’s overwhelmingly the record of a hypocrite' | Writes Michael Deacon Read more ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/1…

@BethRigby But McSweeney ‘resigned’… he wasn’t ‘sacked’. I thought Starmer was all about ‘ministers who make the decisions bearing responsibility for them’, not the advisors (who advise, but don’t actually make the decisions)…?

In the end, the PM had little option. Faced with an escalating crisis and ever-louder calls from his MPs that someone had to take responsibility for the Mandelson scandal, the PM’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney is gone. It will be a bitter blow for Starmer, who had repeatedly said all week he had full confidence in McSweeney. No 10 were trying to hold onto the PM’s right hand man, who had worked with Starmer from opposition, through the election campaign and into power. As late as Sunday morning, cabinet minister Pat McFadden was saying that he didn’t think McSweeney should go over the Mandelson appointment. That the government changed course reveals the deep peril Starmer is in. Faced with a chorus of anger from MPs that showed no sign of abating, No 10 offered a scalp. The hope will be that Mr McSweeney’s departure from the heart of the No 10 operation will go some way to satisfying some of his MPs who were demanding a reset in No 10. Baroness Harman, typically a government loyalist, led the charge on our Electoral Dysfunction podcast when she warned the Prime Minister that blaming Mandelson for misleading him was not enough. She argued to save his premiership, he had to take responsibility by clearing out those who had advised Starmer to appoint Mandelson to Washington, embarking on a genuine programme to clean up politics like he promised in the manifesto and bringing forward action tackling violence against women and girls. Former prime minister Gordon Brown, backing Starmer as a “man of integrity” on Saturday, said the situation was “serious” and suggested the Labour leader had been “too slow to do the right things” to clean up politics in the wake of the Peter Mandelson row. The PM has clearly this weekend heeded some of the unsolicited advice, but make no mistake that the departure of McSweeney comes from a position of acute weakness. This is about a Prime Minister sacrificing his closest ally in No 10 in the hope that he can remain in post. In the longer-term, it might only serve to weaken him further now his key ally and fixer has gone. He has just lost the backbone of his operation. There will be undoubtedly more blood-letting. McSweeney was a powerful force in the party, with a great many allies across the whole of government. There will be anger from many that the man who masterminded the election win and got Keir Starmer into the labour leader position and then into No 10 has been cut adrift. As one former colleague of McSweeney texted me soon after the news broke. “[Morgan]was not just a brilliant colleague but a moral and decent man who supported his staff through think and thin. The PM should have put this down as a mistake and reflected his resignation.” McSweeney said in his resignation statement that he took “full responsibility” for advising the PM to appoint Mandelson. “In public life responsibility must be owned when it matters most, not just when it is most convenient. In the circumstances, the only honourable course is to step aside.” There are many in his party, even his loyalists, who believe the PM cannot recover from this scandal, that it has gone too far to be repaired with the country and with the Labour Party. McSweeney’s departure will not solve that. One minister told me after McSweeney’s departure that the mood remained “frenetic” with MPs unsure how this will all play out, although the minster also thought it would “help Keir for a bit” What is clearer is that No 10 operation is now in full blown survival mode. But past experience shows that when the No 10 operation goes into free fall, it’s near impossible to stabilise.