Emily Spoor

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Emily Spoor

Emily Spoor

@em_spoor

Policy & programmes professional, food insecurity Tweets about poverty, climate, built environment, access to food & queer rights (they're related)

Katılım Ağustos 2019
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Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan·
Any Labour minister with a conscience or a backbone should resign over this. Imagine being part of a government still sending bullets to a regime whose snipers are shooting kids in the head and whose leaders are wanted by the International Criminal Court.
Declassified UK@declassifiedUK

🚨A new investigation by Channel 4 indicates 110,000 bullets were sent from Britain to Israel last month. The value of UK arms shipments to Israel in August 2025 totalled more than £150,000, the second largest monthly amount since January 2022.

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Tom Pollard
Tom Pollard@PollardTom·
This is nonsense. The impact assessment starts from an imaginary baseline incorporating reforms planned but never implemented by the previous government In the real world, the cuts remaining in the Bill will push around 50,000 disabled people into poverty theguardian.com/society/2025/j…
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Tom Pollard
Tom Pollard@PollardTom·
New DWP research gives a clearer picture of why PIP claims have been rising than government & media rhetoric about the need for cuts People with complex poor health, driven in part by financial hardship to seek additional support to meet their basic costs gov.uk/government/pub…
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Dr Haseena Wazir
Dr Haseena Wazir@DrHWazir·
A national scandal is quietly unfolding in the NHS. 1000s of doctors are being blocked from becoming Consultants & GPs because the Government is restricting training spots. The public aren’t being told. Unemployed doctors while waiting lists soar is nothing short of madness.
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Faiza Shaheen
Faiza Shaheen@faizashaheen·
The tax is bringing in revenue, hence why they haven’t got rid of it. ‘Of 236,000 millionaires and billionaires in Norway, the relocation of 30 – while substantially higher than in previous years – still amounts to a mere 0.01% of Norway’s millionaire and billionaire population. The lost revenue from the leaving millionaires comprises a small percentage of the revenue gained from the increase.’ taxjustice.uk/blog/wealth-ta…
Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪@PeterMcCormack

On Question Time this week @faizashaheen talks positively about a wealth tax “We always focus on the failures but some countries have done well with their wealth taxes, countries introducing them now like Spain and Norway.” The solution to our problems is not more tax. It’s idiotic. The only country that has lost more millionaires than the U.K. is China. Facts don’t care about your feelings.

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Ben Sellers
Ben Sellers@MrBenSellers·
I see a lot of people celebrating the passing of the Employment Rights Act yesterday. I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubble, but there are some things that need to be known - and you won’t get it from the media … /1
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Helen Barnard
Helen Barnard@Helen_Barnard·
As I said to @BBCBreakfast government *isn’t* proposing reform. It’s cuts. The @DWPgovuk has a genuine plan for reform to help more people get support, healthcare & work when they can. @hmtreasury driving the opposite. Cruel & counterproductive cuts for short term savings.
Trussell@TrussellUK

🗣️ "We are very worried and appalled" Our Director of Policy, Research & Impact, Helen Barnard spoke to @BBCBreakfast about the UK government's plans to cut vital disability support.

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Jordan
Jordan@jordanbhx·
As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and the UK’s historic manufacturing heartland there are countless sites like this in the West Midlands; well connected but difficult to build on due to contamination or mining. We need massive funding to ensure sites aren’t wasted.
Lewis Warner@LewisJWarner

EXCLUSIVE West Midlands Mayor blames Environment Agency for leaving a planned 630-home site in Wednesbury bare @RichParkerLab says @EnvAgency has been "hiding behind red tape and bureaucracy" @itvcentral

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Resolution Foundation
Resolution Foundation@resfoundation·
The UK is among the worst nations in Europe for child poverty. In the UK, 11% of 15-year-olds reported they had skipped a meal in 2022 because there wasn't enough money to buy food. In the Netherlands and Finland, this number was 3%.
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Peter Apps
Peter Apps@PeteApps·
My experience of reporting on welfare cuts over the last 12 years is that they result in very high levels of human misery and don't save anything like as much as they were intended to - especially when other costs are factored in. I don't expect Reeves' to be much different
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Resolution Foundation
Resolution Foundation@resfoundation·
Earlier today the justice secretary pointed to a “huge rise in the welfare budget” as justification for benefit cuts to reduce public spending. So, how big has the rise in welfare spending been? 🧵
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Resolution Foundation
Resolution Foundation@resfoundation·
🚨 New research published today 🚨 For the poorest half of working households, income from work has increased & benefits decreased. But lower income families are spending a disproportionate amount of their income on Council Tax, which has become increasingly regressive. buff.ly/4gE0beF
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Tom Forth
Tom Forth@thomasforth·
As I've said before on here, if Scotland's economy had performed as badly as the West Midlands' over the past 25 years, Westminster could have cancelled devolution in disgrace. But since it was Westminster's government that failed in the West Midlands, it takes no responsibility.
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Gareth Dennis
Gareth Dennis@GarethDennis·
This is the West Coast Main Line, the UK's primary route from London to Scotland and the north of England. Without HS2, there are no plans for climate resilient sustainable infrastructure linking the UK north-south into the middle of the century.
West Coast Main Line@networkrailWCML

⚠️ NEW: Major disruption between #MiltonKeynes & #Rugby ❌ All trains suspended through #Northampton due to severe flooding caused by the River Nene bursting its banks 📲 Please check nationalrail.co.uk for journey info @LNRailway @AvantiWestCoast #StormBert

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Ria Chatterjee
Ria Chatterjee@RiaChatter·
Chris Kaba’s family has issued a statement: ‘The not guilty verdict leaves us with the deep pain of injustice… this decision shows his life - and many others like him - does not matter to the system.’ Full statement attached.
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Sam Tims
Sam Tims@Sam_Tims·
My new @NEF paper argues the benefits of reducing child poverty by scrapping the two-child limit and benefit cap are being significantly undervalued Both gov and OBR need to better consider the short, medium, and long-term benefits from reducing child poverty now 🧵1/x
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