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@PatrickChristys @GBNEWS So funny! Needed a good laugh! 😂😂😂

I realised I could make my 10-month-old son laugh if I stuck that green toy to my head and then ripped it off. Did it solidly for about 5 minutes…then I looked in the mirror. Probably worth it for the giggles but I’m going to have to lay the make-up on thick tonight on @GBNEWS.

@EssexPR It’s sickening and heartbreaking, poor Anne 💔

Hitting a frail old lady over the head 21 times with a hammer. That's beyond sick. That's a monster.

This is a huge disappointment. Day one of the new Andy Burnham government, and new Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds declines to come on @GBNEWS to discuss a cut to energy bills which will help our viewers. 👇 New Secretary of State for Business Jonathan Reynolds broadcast round: Sky Mornings (7.15 a.m.) … BBC Breakfast (7.30 a.m.) … LBC (7.50 a.m.) … Today (8.10 a.m.) … Good Morning Britain (8.35 a.m.). @politico

This is the problem right here. This is why these announcements should be made at the despatch box so the Chancellor can be scrutinised by @KemiBadenoch Burnham has just given us an unfunded VAT cut on energy bills.

HAHAHA … it’s not a £45 reduction in energy bills. It’s a tiny reduction in the size of the increase. VAT on domestic electricity is only 5% anyway and Burnham isn’t removing it from gas! The energy price cap has just risen by £221. So you’re now only £176 WORSE OFF 🤡 (Also, Digital ID front end was unfunded)

Burnham reshuffle: Convicted fraudster at the heart of government, Rayner comically in charge of housing despite Stamp Duty issues, Reynolds back at business after fibbing about being a qualified solicitor. More now @GBNEWS

Angela Rayner is back🏘️ Burnham has handed her the Housing brief, again . So now we can fully expect a wave of compulsory purchase orders and council houses fast-tracked for migrants. Let’s be honest about her record: she left school at 16 with zero qualifications, has absolutely no higher education, and got booted out of the last cabinet after failing to pay £40,000 in property tax. Yet, in Burnham's meritocracy, a complete lack of education and a tax scandal apparently make you the perfect person to seize private land and manage a multi-billion-pound housing budget.  You truly couldn’t make it up. #UKPolitics #AngelaRayner #Housing #Reshuffle

@BryanGOBsmacked @GBNEWS @policylaila You can dislike and disagree and remain civil.

@Longhaired17 @GBNEWS @policylaila Good for Gove. In principle I am pro Reform but unfortunately many of their key figures including @policylaila are utterly unlikeable

Michael Gove losing his sh*t on @GBNEWS Omg this is really not on, yelling at @policylaila

@Councillorsuzie @michaelgove @GBNEWS He completely lost his composure and embarrassed himself. Shouting at Laila wasn’t dignified.

Oh I just love @michaelgove - @GBNEWS - you were 💯 correct!

The state of the bond markets after PM Burnham spoke. 👇 Much much worse than during Liz Truss’s short stint in Number 10. Where are the hysterics and calls for him to go?

Louise Haigh enters No. 10. A woman who literally pleaded guilty to fraud over a work mobile phone is back in government? I suppose Burnham has plenty of room for crooks in this new administration. All we need now is an Angela Rayner comeback to complete the absolute circus. 🎪🤡 #UKPolitics #LouiseHaigh #BurnhamCabinet #Reshuffle

‼️URGENT WARNING ‼️ I have been contacted several times this weekend about this! Women and Girls are being approached and asked whether they would like to test or smell a perfume at a discount price.. they then wake up to find they’ve been robbed OR the most awful nightmare in one 17 year old girl’s case.. Raped. Several police forces are investigating this, but PLEASE 🙏🏻 tell your daughters, friends, sisters, wives.. Women and Girls are simply not safe in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 @pinkladies_uk

ANDY BURNHAM has refused multiple times to rule out restoring the 50p top Income Tax rate to pay for his new projects. Doing so would break a primary plank of the Labour manifesto, which said: "Labour will not increase taxes on working people, which is why we will not increase National Insurance, the basic, higher, or additional rates of Income Tax, or VAT."

What a player he was. Rest in peace.

@angelazhay @sandieshoes It is and it’s follow up support once they are housed.

@sandieshoes It is such a complex issue. It's not just money and housing but many issues that cause people to sleep rough.

The first thing Burnham says he will fix is rough sleeping across the country. Let’s hope he has more success than he did in Manchester. “Independent data shows that the number of people recorded sleeping rough in Greater Manchester has increased for four consecutive years” 🧐

To Mr Speaker. Andy Burnham is set to announce a wave of new policies to the media and Twitter tomorrow, completely bypassing the House of Commons. This continues a pattern of major announcements being briefed to journalists before Parliament has a chance to hear them. These pledges include a repeat commitment to end rough sleeping, despite official figures showing that rough sleeping numbers in Greater Manchester have actually risen. This disregard for parliamentary protocol is not acceptable. Mr Speaker, you must demand that Parliament is recalled immediately. Major policy platforms must be delivered on the floor of the House first. This ensures Andy Burnham and his administration can face robust scrutiny from Kemi Badenoch and other members of the opposition, rather than avoiding difficult questions through managed media appearances. @CommonsSpeaker @LindsayHoyle_MP @KemiBadenoch @kevinhollinrake

@sandieshoes 😂 very true!!

My mum always said it’s better to go up a dress size than try and squeeze into a dress that’s clearly too tight, no matter the style of the dress. #Lumpsandbumps #MrsPM #Meow

It’s genuinely odd to see this level of adulation for someone who hasn’t won a general election or even fought a leadership campaign.

Lammy's Data Cover-Up Is A Scandal About Power, Not Just Numbers The Ministry of Justice is now in court to stop the public seeing crime data the public is legally entitled to see. That is the story, stripped of the politics around it. David Lammy's department asked the Information Commissioner for permission to withhold seven years of conviction data broken down by nationality. The Commissioner refused. The MoJ is appealing that refusal to a tribunal rather than complying with it. The reasons the MoJ gave for withholding the data are worth dwelling on, because both were tested and both failed. The department claimed the request would cost too much to fulfil. The Information Commissioner's office did not simply take a different view. It found the MoJ had never produced a coherent estimate of the cost in the first place. Complexity, the ruling noted, does not excuse a public body from having to show its working. A government department asserted a defence and could not substantiate it to its own regulator. The department also claimed publication risked identifying individuals. The Commissioner rejected this too, and for a reason that exposes how thin the objection was: the standard method of suppressing any category with fewer than five convictions would resolve the privacy concern entirely. This is routine practice across government statistics. The MoJ did not explain why it would not apply here. Two arguments, tested by an independent watchdog, both found wanting. That is the pattern that should trouble people regardless of where they stand on immigration. A department lost on the merits and chose litigation over compliance. Nick Timothy and Robert Jenrick have both called this a cover-up, and it is easy to see why the word fits. But it is worth being precise about what is actually being covered up, because the temptation is to overreach. The published figures already show foreign nationals accounted for one in seven sexual offence convictions last year, against a population share of roughly one in eleven. What remains hidden is the breakdown within that figure: how many of those convictions were rape, how many grooming, how many child sexual abuse, and which nationalities appear most often within each category. Nobody outside government currently knows that with precision. That is exactly why the MoJ's resistance matters. The public is being asked to trust a conclusion it is not permitted to check. Lammy's own account of this makes the pattern harder to defend, not easier. In a letter to Timothy last week, he defended the department's position by pointing to a "range of statistical breakdowns" already published, and said publication of further data was kept under "continuous review." Continuous review is not a commitment. It is a form of words that allows a department to say something is being considered indefinitely without ever being obliged to act on it. Put alongside two failed arguments before the Information Commissioner, it reads less like caution and more like a holding position dressed up as process. It would not be the first time. When early release for serious offenders began this year, the same department declined to publish a total figure for how many foreign nationals would be affected, despite holding the data. There is a version of this story that is simply about migration policy. It is not that story. It is about whether a government department will accept the ruling of the watchdog charged with enforcing transparency law, or whether it will use the machinery of litigation to delay disclosure indefinitely. Parliament does not need to wait for the tribunal to ask that question. It needs to ask why a government that says it has nothing to hide is paying lawyers to make sure nobody can check.