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Southampton have been 𝑬𝑿𝑷𝑬𝑳𝑳𝑬𝑫 from the Championship play-offs ❌ Middlesbrough will play in the final against Hull.

@skytv Approximately 86,500 live viewers for the final episode?

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@BBCPolitics The only possible remaining explanation is that he's an undercover Tory making sure Labour never govern again.

"I do want to fight the next election... I'm not going to walk away," PM Keir Starmer says Follow latest updates: bbc.in/4dwtz79

@TotalVilla_ @TheRealBozza Mark Bosnich was one of the best shot stoppers ever, but his kicking and distribution wouldn't have held up today without some serious work. So all round, probably Martinez. But I loved Bosnich and would rather party with him, so Bosnich.

If you asked most Aston Villa fans pre Emi Martinez, who our best goalkeeper of all-time was, I feel that Mark Bosnich would be the most popular answer. For context, I was born a few weeks after @TheRealBozza left the club. For those who’ve seen both, who was best? 🤔 #avfc

@ZiaYusufUK Here here. You don't have to like democracy but you have to live with it. Like we are now. With the worst, most hated government in my lifetime. That about 30% of the population voted for. That's democracy.

Good luck to them. Our legislation will mean they’ll lose their jobs and their employer pensions if they do this. And save the taxpayer huge sums in redundancy pay! Everyone wins!

@dailybritainonx Another self made millionaire "of working class origins". They always are. As if that will sway the vote.

He built Greater Manchester's bus network, reduced homelessness and created a model of devolved governance that his allies want to scale nationally. He is the most popular Labour figure in the country with 72% net favourability. He is working-class in origin, plain-speaking, and has a programme - PR, social care, 10-year devolution - that goes beyond personality. Is he the Labour leader Britain needs - or the one Labour has convinced itself it needs?

@labourpress Labour hate investigating child rape gangs so if I had to pick which child hating policy to support, I'd probably pick Reform's.

Reform's council leader in Kent opposes Labour's free breakfast clubs. There are 29 of them in Kent, with more to come.

@PolitlcsUK 15% of his salary alone or 15% of his entire income?

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has pledged to donate 15% of his salary if he’s elected as the MP for Makerfield

@mtpennycook Labour governments frighten me more to be honest, 2029 is too far away.

I appreciate that many people will understandably be frightened by what they are seeing at the Unite the Kingdom demonstration today. The right to protest is fundamental. But it can’t be a cover for inciting hatred. We must stand against attempts to inflame and divide us.

@PolitlcsUK "We don't know how to lead. We want the EU to do it for us."

🚨 BREAKING: Wes Streeting calls for the Government to rejoin the EU "Leaving the EU was a catastrophic mistake"

@BBCMOTD I wonder how he has done it. Hopefully there is a book or something one day.

Pep Guardiola has brought incredible success to Manchester City 🏆✨

@StanCollymore Hold the North Stand renaming until he retires.

JOHN MCGINN ASTON VILLA LEGEND TAKE A FUCKING BOW

@skytv No wonder only 100,000 people a week are watching this live.

Ncuti Gatwa Discovers the Regeneration Secret of SNL UK

@Keir_Starmer In the two decades that labour were missing from British politics, what the f*** happened to the party? Imagine what will happen to it between 2029 and 2049 when it falls off the political spectrum again.

Hope resides in our young people. But Brexit has held them back. They should be able to live, work and study in Europe, which is exactly what our Youth Experience Scheme will deliver. This is part of rebuilding a stronger relationship with Europe. That's the Labour choice.

@KevinCraigUK @keirstarmer @UKLabour Drinking bleach when you're already dead isn't self harm.

I was out campaigning in London and Suffolk. Whatever frustrations there are, removing @KeirStarmer now would be an act of extraordinary self-harm with the public. If you are a @UKLabour MP and you sign any letters tomorrow or if you are facilitating it through moves or plots, remember Reform want you to do this - there then follows three years of "No Mandate, General Election Now" calls. As we would do. So stop panicking, take a step back, accelerate change people can feel and which cuts through and pull together to fix it. It can be done. Three years is a huge amount of time. As for the below, he has clearly learnt nothing.

@AngelaRayner After 2029, Labour won't be heard of for a generation, until enough people from this time have gone or forgotten. Some legacy that, well done.

Our party has suffered a historic defeat. Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more. What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance. The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people. We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it. Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits. Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them. Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that. In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer.  We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people. The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.  Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government. For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics. But we have the chance to fix this.  1/2

@LizzyBuchan 10 years? Ha ha. It's like watching your 90 year old dad buy a new car knowing you'll be lumbered with the hassle of selling it in 12 months time.

NEW: Interview with Keir Starmer after local elections drubbing 🌹Cost of living plans being drawn up to slash bills, with fuel duty believed to be on the table 🌹PM wants to see out his 10-year project to fix Britain - and will fight any challenger 🌹 Closer European ties front and centre - and youth mobility scheme expected to start 2027 mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

@DavidTaylor85 Jobs for the boys giving you hope shows how out of touch you are. 2029 is too far away.

The best news in ages. So pleased to see Gordon appointed to the role - the best person for the job. Given me renewed hope for the future 🙏🏻😍👏🏻

@JohnSlinger I've thought for the last 18 months that Labour don't actually want to be in power, and then this. Just call a GE and walk away with a bit of respect.

My view on today’s appointments: this is Keir Starmer getting on with the day job. Gordon Brown as Special Envoy on Global Finance and Cooperation. Harriet Harman as Adviser on Women and Girls. Two of the issues of our age. Two serious figures. 👇

@lukeakehurst No one voted for 'the speed up of change'.

For the avoidance of doubt, I am completely opposed to Labour having a leadership challenge and will support Keir Starmer if there was such an election. I don't think there will be one in any case. We do need to listen to voters on speeding up delivering change, especially on the cost of living. Following the Tories down the path of constant coups against PMs would make the country politically and economically weaker and less stable at a time of intense strategic danger. Labour moving to the left would have exactly the same disastrous results as every other time we tried it.