Jake Ryan

🎶 For the final time this season… Colin Chisholm sings The Hearts Song at Tynecastle before kick off! ⤵️

It looks increasingly like nobody is going over the top Andy Burnham is not expected to say anything today or this weekend. Wes Streeting appears to be sticking to what he said before the election - he doesn't think this is the time for a leadership challenge Cabinet ministers are privately despairing and think next week is huge - the PM's reset speech has to hit home, the King's speech has to show real ambition - but they're not calling for his head at the moment, however unsustainable they think his premiership is The one variable is Angela Rayner - it's still not clear whether she will go public over the next 72 hours. The council in her seat has been decimated We've essentially got a party in a sense of stasis - ministers know it's bad, they know that Starmer is going down terribly on the doorstep, but at this point in time they don't have a better alternative All of which plays in Starmer's favour, in the short term at least

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I’m not sure why we still have a monarch. It seems like a medieval anachronism to me; a demonstration of inherited status and the the pinnacle of an entrenched aristocracy. And I’m really not sure why our monarch has gone to the US to stand next to another man with too much power, land and money.

Stop the boats...

Your father was a teacher, your grandparents nurses, you went to the best state school in Sunderland & you had music & drama classes outside of school as a kid. You then worked for your mother's charity. It is unlikely you have done a day's manual labour in your life.