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@MayorofLondon Strange logic escape from your country to find a better life in the uk then turn it into the shithole you escaped from

@Peston It's a good job your not bias

Hours after President Trump announced a two-week cessation of hostilities against Iran, I travelled to the Gulf with the prime minister and his team, in the official government plane. We have just landed in Saudi Arabia. For diplomatic and security reasons, I have been asked not to disclose our itinerary or Starmer’s schedule of meetings with government heads. But it does not take enormous intellectual effort to deduce that the first set of talks will be with arguably the most powerful of the Gulf leaders, Saudi’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. The most pressing question in all Starmer’s meetings, including with MBS, is whether the ceasefire between Iran and America and Israel can endure long enough for there to be meaningful talks on a sustainable peace - which are scheduled to start on Friday in Pakistan. According to British sources - and frankly this won’t surprise you - the ceasefire is real, holding so far and very unstable. One source of anxiety is Israel’s somewhat ambivalent commitment to it - and notably that Netanyahu is explicit the hiatus does not restrict the Israel Defence Forces’ aggression in Lebanon. Another is that the devolved structure of Iran’s military, the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the absence of a centralised power structure in Iran brings the risk of continued sporadic and unlicensed attacks by Iranian militia on Gulf countries - and also means that very few shippers of oil, gas and other vital commodities will yet take the risk of moving their tankers and ships through the precarious Strait of Hormuz. As one intelligence source put it to me, Israel’s assassination of so many Iranian leaders makes it incredibly difficult to know who is in charge in the country, if anyone. On the more positive side though, there may be a little more underlying common ground between Tehran and Washington than their public positions on their “non negotiable” aims for any peace settlement would suggest - though I don’t have a clue how their respective positions on Iran’s nuclear ambitions or Iran’s determination to be turnpike keeper of the Hormuz Strait can be bridged. Because the Hormuz Strait is the supply route for a fifth of the world’s carbon energy, and therefore a kind of oesophagus for the global economy, much of Starmer’s focus in talks with Gulf leaders will be a continuation of British diplomatic activity with 40-odd other nations in recent days, namely whether there is any practical way to make the Strait safe for commercial traffic. But his other message is bound to be along the lines of “when this chaos is finally over, don’t forget who your true allies and friends are.” The point is that - like Starmer - none of the Gulf states wanted Trump to attack Iran when he did. And although the UK’s military has been exposed by both the Ukraine and Iran conflicts as depleted and unequipped for this era of drone wars, the UK has been deploying planes and weapons to protect the region from Iran’s assorted uncrewed aerial threats. In the eyes of Gulf leaders, the UK - and Europe more widely, including Ukraine with its formidable drone capabilities - presumably looks a less intimidating friend than either America or China. They have a material interest in strengthening ties with Britain. This is important because Trump’s Iran war is re-configuring the global balance of power in a fundamental way. For Starmer and the UK there are risks, especially if the US were to precipitously withdraw its military umbrella from our continent. And to be clear, there is no sign of Starmer unilaterally abandoning the UK’s historic entente with America, even if Trump is an unreliable, and sometimes abusive, friend. 1/2

@RachelReevesMP Unemployment up and rising

Minimum wage rising 📈 State pension increasing 💷 Two child limit abolished 🏡 Child poverty falling 📉 Rights at work strengthened 💪🏻 Labour promised change. We are delivering change. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@ejames500 @reformparty_uk Restore will split the vote and the only winners will be Labour vote Reform

I'm having a bit of a wobble I will definitely be voting @reformparty_uk but I do like Rupert Lowe and the messages he's sending out. I think he's maybe a bit too extreme and diplomacy goes out of the window with Rupert. Maybe it's time for being extreme and fuck the diplomacy. What do you think? Ideally @RupertLowe10 & @Nigel_Farage could settle there differences but that seems unlikely which is a real shame.

@JonathanBrash Hopefully he we put you out of a job

Talks us down with his bare faced lies at every turn. This man is a nasty little traitor. A puppet of foreign leaders.

@RichardBurgon Fuck off

I’ll be taking a short break from social media over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend. Wishing you all a really relaxing and enjoyable break with your friends and family over the coming days. Happy Easter to everyone in East Leeds and beyond.

@danwootton You've turned out to be a bit of a kunt

The way Nigel Farage just publicly sacked his housing spokesman live at a Reform UK press conference because of demands from Khan and Starmer was chilling. This party is a dictatorship and even the slightest bit of pushback will see you brutally thrown under the bus. Stalin like.

@DeborahMeaden Deborah Meaden struggling to make her next million in these troubled times yes it's tough

In the toughest of times

@TheRealJamieKay Turkeys voting for Christmas

What a fantastic photo! Happy Sunday, everyone.

@JackWDart Suppose you think your clever posting this now go and knock on a few families doors who have lost a family member and spew out this drivel to them wanker

Do you know what’s mad. I spent all day in central London today and wasn’t murdered once. I’m starting to think these claims about London being crime-ridden might be false.

What a complete gutless wanker

@hol40900 @ZackPolanski Have you ever heard the expression Your being Played

“We are white, we are black, we are Asian, we are Muslim…” That’s the Britain the far right fears most. United, unbreakable, and not going anywhere. @ZackPolanski said it now let’s make sure they hear it. ✊🏽

So he took tel off and keeps solanke on why ffs

@Keir_Starmer Even that's probably a lie

My mum was an incredible example for me. Even through long years of illness, she always put others first. Thinking of you today, mum. Happy Mother’s Day.

@ZackPolanski Pass the monkey wrench

Such a special moment. Beautiful speech by Hannah Spencer. The speech the county needed right now. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

@johnmcdonnellMP Traitor

Full statement by the Solidarity with Iranian Workers Committee. Stop the War on Iran! – Labour Hub labourhub.org.uk/2026/03/01/sto…

@LastWordOnSpurs @GraemeBailey @TEAMtalk They would surely need another 500 million working capital to rebuild the team

🚨🚨💣𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆! | Amanda Staveley and her husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi, are understood to now have the funding in place – believed to be more than £3 billion – to buy Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. 👨🏻‍💻[@GraemeBailey via @TEAMtalk] #THFC | #COYS | #TOTTENHAM | #SPURS

@narendramodi Whilst UK manufacturing is expected to spend millions on Health and safety and minimum wage costs I would be interested to know what laws India has in place to equal the UK

Sanand has witnessed record transformations over the last many years. Back in the day, some people perceived it to be a nondescript place but today, it is a vibrant centre of growth and innovation. Yesterday’s roadshow, held during a hot afternoon, shows how much the people of Sanand cherish the strides in development.

This is the real Hannah Spencer. She’s not a sweet innocent plumber.

@TedUrchin @UKLabour Your forgetting the Reform voters will vote on their way home from work

A constituency poll from Opinium - based on a sample of 401 people - puts the Greens on 28 per cent, Labour on 28 per cent and Reform on 27 per cent. This was posted 12 minutes ago. I think @UKLabour might edge it. They are coming up on the rails! I do hope so, don’t you?

@phughes76340646 Because I'm not a sponger I didn't or never would vote Labour

Be honest now Do you regret voting for this con man