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@RachelforLWP I'll say the same to you as to all Labour MPs: So you're admitting finances are under stress? Do you also acknowledge it isn't only families with young children who struggle? So why is government generosity (with our money) directed at 1 group? Why can't everyone benefit?

Great British Summer Savings means that families in Leeds West and Pudsey can go into the summer holidays knowing those little joys with the kids are going to be cheaper. Labour is slashing VAT on summer activities - from cinemas to museums to soft play centres.

@chimney1878 @donmcgowan @Yosser77 I assume you meant 'how' is that different to every major city? The debate was about London and London only. I simply don't believe that someone who lives in one of the most expensive parts of the city and no doubt travels by taxi should be telling the rest of us we are wrong.

@LassHull @donmcgowan @Yosser77 He is that difffeent to literally every major city?

A lovely day out in London. I didn't get stabbed. I still have my phone. Nobody tried to radicalise me. The only downside were the rowdy, drunken football guys on the train. But they were harmless and quite polite, just loud. Sadiq Khan's London is a lovely place. 😃

@liambyrnemp So you are admitting that finances are under stress? Do you also acknowledge that it isn't only families with young children who struggle with the cost of living? So why is government generosity (with tax payers' money) only directed at one group? Why can't everyone benefit?

Labour is cutting VAT to save families money this summer. ☀️Sunny days out 🤞in the summer holidays More family time, less financial stress.

@chimney1878 @donmcgowan @Yosser77 Recently Attenborough went down in my estimation when he claimed that London is a wonderful place to live. As far as I am aware, at no point did he acknowledge that living in a nice property in Richmond is somewhat different to living in a social housing flat in Harlesden.

@LassHull @donmcgowan @Yosser77 It is.

@MatthewStadlen The problem I see is that your second sentence is incorrect. Labour didn't win, did they? The Conservatives lost. And even after 14 years in opposition, Labour only had half-baked policies, which seem to be having an adverse impact on many areas of our lives.

So just to sum up. Labour win a 174 seat majority under Keir Starmer and return to power after almost a decade and a half. They find governing challenging against the backdrop of struggling public services and low growth, and make unforced errors (winter fuel, Mandelson etc). Social media conspiracies, led by Elon Musk, contribute to a toxic political climate. Nigel Farage, the architect-in-chief of Brexit (which made things harder than they needed to be) pops up with his divisive rhetoric and poorly thought through policies and… Labour MPs, egged on by the media, panic. If Andy Burnham, a man without a plan, wins a staged by-election, he likely becomes Prime Minister. He then either calls a general election and loses Labour its hard fought majority, or struggles through for a couple of years before Farage is better “prepared” to move into Number 10. Stupid doesn’t cover it.

@patmcfaddenmp Why not ask why too many young people have never had a job? In the 60s I walked into a job, ditto my children in the 90s. Online shopping has increased but I can't help thinking it is a chicken and egg situation - is online popular because government has killed the High Street?

Too many young Neets have never had a job - and we have to change that. My first job, the decline of physical retail over the past decade, and how work experience can help our young people get that vital first chance. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

@PeterStefanovi2 @SkyNews Inflation since 7/2024 has risen. Now it has come down slightly (probably only temporarily) and we should celebrate? NHS waiting lists may have been reduced but we know why - deaths, private healthcare, manipulation of figures. Highest G7 growth yet we need to be closer to EU???

“We’ve got a PM who is doing a cracking job. We’ve got a cabinet who are delivering. Bringing NHS waiting lists down, inflation coming down, highest growth in the G7. We’re a government that’s focused on delivery” Labour Party Chair Anna Turley tells @SkyNews

@ed_hawkins To repeat what I said earlier. Has the equipment used to measure temperatures changed over time? I suspect it has. Have the methods used to measure temperature changed also? Are the locations exactly the same or have they changed? In other words, are we comparing like with like?

34.8°C in the UK. In May. Warmest spring day ever. Beating the previous record by 2°C. Burning fossil fuels has made this heatwave hotter. True for the UK today, and everywhere else, all of the time.

@BrknMan Has the equipment used to measure temperatures become more accurate? Have the locations used in the statistics changed? In other words, are we comparing like with like?

Dear Climate change deniers . Today UK broke it's May temperature record by 2C. The UK has temperature records going back 350 years and in all that time we have never come close to this May temp. Without climate change this temp in UK would be impossible

@PreetKGillMP @edgbastonCLP @harbornelabour @BartleyGreenRed @QuintonLabour @WMLabour @BrumLabour Why does the VAT reduction only apply to children? Don't adults deserve to be able to enjoy leisure time? And what difference will this really make? The adults who accompany the children will still have to pay 20% VAT. A gimmick that most people can see through.

The Chancellor has announced the Great British Summer Savings Scheme, cutting VAT from 20% to 5% on tickets for fairs, theme parks, zoos, museums and more. Also applies to children’s meals in restaurants and cafés. Read more here: gov.uk/government/new…

Harsh climate scenarios have spent decades painting Earth's likely future landscape as dystopian, dark, barren and forbidding. Yet, recent physical data argues exactly the opposite. Instead of plunging the planet into chaos, it's becoming eye-catchingly greener - and CO₂ is the key. The formal models predicted a scorched planet, but NASA satellites unleashed a world that is biologically thriving. This silent miracle of global greening isn't some theory, it's the physical reality captured by the orbiting space platforms; MODIS instruments on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites. This is how these jarring narratives have been unfolding: * Official Climate Narrative: Rapid, systemic desertification and global canopy loss due to rising temperatures. * Hard Reality: Persistent structural greening across more than 30% of the global vegetated area over the last two decades. * Official Climate Narrative: CO₂ acts strictly as a destructive atmospheric pollutant driving extreme weather. * Hard Reality: CO₂ is plant food, driving down stomatal conductance, making plants use water more efficiently and expanding the leaf area index. * Official Climate Narrative: Global food supply chains are on the verge of climate-driven collapse. * Hard Reality: Agricultural yields bolstered by CO₂ fertilisation are expanding green cover in semi-arid zones like the African Sahel and Western Australia. Plants are not passive victims of these often fudged climate waystations. Increased atmospheric carbon should be a blast of rich green reality. Higher, more robust CO₂ is not a death sentence - which is what they argued. It allows vegetation to open their pores (stomata) less, yet absorb the same amount of carbon. This drastically reduces water loss through transpiration. It's why the world's arid desert regions are blooming and the fragile living desert is raging into life - plants are also becoming more drought-resistant. This oft-neglected climate resurgence reveals that the biosphere is its own self-regulating flywheel. A massive global expansion of leaf cover is already visible from space. Official computer models consistently fail to mention it. Nevertheless, a vividly coloured renaissance is dutifully taking place, sweeping away all doubts.

@lester_hickling @Katie_Lam_MP When I researched my family history I discovered that a direct ancestor served a term in prison for bigamy during WWI. Can I ask for a pardon for them, now that bigamy appears not to be a criminal offence any more?

@Katie_Lam_MP Apparently you are talking about less than 10 households. Assuming you are bored or got some time on your hands. Try volunteering it can be very rewarding 🥱

Polygamy has never been normal in Britain. And yet the Government has just committed to giving even more taxpayer money to people in polygamous marriages. If you come to this country, you should abide by our norms. You certainly shouldn't get paid extra for failing to do so.

@GordonFielden @PreetKGillMP @edgbastonCLP @harbornelabour @QuintonLabour @BartleyGreenRed @WMLabour @BrumLabour Thank you reminding us of all the issues you avoid mentioning - fiscal drag, increased prices for food/other bills, rising unemployment, money paid to France to sit and watch dingy departures (carrying 712 asylum seeks in the past week), 2 tier justice, controls on free speech...

@PreetKGillMP @edgbastonCLP @harbornelabour @QuintonLabour @BartleyGreenRed @WMLabour @BrumLabour

Free bus travel for children this August will help families with the cost of living and make summer holidays more affordable. Families in Birmingham Edgbaston will be able to enjoy more days out while keeping more money in their pockets. Read more here: gov.uk/government/new…

@PreetKGillMP @edgbastonCLP @harbornelabour @QuintonLabour @BartleyGreenRed @WMLabour @BrumLabour Penny’s and an halfpenny’s How about doing something for parents and workers unfreeze the personal allowance and put it back to where it should be? @RachelReevesMP

@neilorpen @johnandi What do you mean by 'enrich himself with politics'?

@johnandi I think this is probably right - Starmer has made some terrible mistakes But he is not in it for himself - he doesn’t want to enrich himself with politics and that is rare these days

Years into the future, people will want PMs to be like Keir Starmer and Mark Carney. Trust me on this.

@PeterStefanovi2 So why did we enshrine the rights covered by the ECHR into our own laws? Are you claiming that our own laws are worthless?

The ECHR has protected British people from abuses of power by its own government. Nigel Farage wants us to leave it. Please think about that

@JeremyVineOn5 No

Would you swap the pound for the Euro in order to rejoin the EU? It's a condition demanded by an EU chief after Labour challengers Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham put a return to the bloc back on the agenda. Is scrapping sterling a price worth paying?

@PatMillsUK @FrancesOGrady Could you tell us how much has been paid to the Exchequer voluntarily in 2025-2026? You claim a patriotic millionaire is happy to make voluntary contributions in order to improve the lives of young people, so how much has been donated? Or is it the case that words are cheap?

Thank you to @FrancesOGrady, for speaking about our 2026 polling in the House of Lords earlier this week. 🇬🇧 88% of UK millionaires are proud to live in the UK 🇬🇧 79% of UK millionaires would be willing to pay more tax to create opportunities for young people.

@SheilaMarieF Most people see beyond the headlines, to the impact of policies eg increased workers' rights = fewer job vacancies. And you have conveniently left out increased food prices, increased unemployment, fiscal drag, manipulation of NHS waiting list figures, Mandelson scandal etc.

She is right. They should be much higher after stabilising the economy, improving renter's rights, introducing the biggest raft of worker's rights in a generation, taking children out of poverty, reducing immigration, reducing NHS waiting lists etc etc.

BREAKING: Poland just told the EU to go to hell. President Nawrocki vetoed the Digital Services Act. "The state is supposed to guarantee freedom. Not restrict it." One man. One veto. The EU spent years building the most sophisticated censorship framework in the Western world. - Governments deciding what you can post. - Governments deciding what you can share. - Governments deciding what is true. Poland said no. While Germany complied. While France complied. While every other EU member rolled over. Poland stood up. The same Poland that buys more gold than the ECB. The same Poland that surpassed European Central Bank reserves. The same Poland that has been right about everything. Is now the last wall standing between European citizens and state-controlled speech. The EU doesn't want free citizens. It wants manageable ones. Poland just reminded the entire continent what freedom actually looks like. Every European should be paying attention.