air con 😎 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱🇺🇸 ✈️

@metoffice Awesome, bring it on.

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

@campbellclaret yeah he's def got the vibe that's gonna win elections 🤡

Whoever is Prime Minister in the coming months for heaven’s sake try to get David Miliband back into UK politics to be part of your team. His interview on Today programme just now a reminder of how much his voice and his brain are missed.

Which words come to mind when you think about Brexit? This week, as politicians threaten to restart the Brexit wars, join @ColinBrazierTV as he takes us through his personal Brexit story. Colin Brazier: In Defence of Brexit. Only on Outpost.

Aaaaand he’s failed the basic test.

Remember how last Oct the UK said it was going to ban oil products (eg diesel/kerosene) made from oil that originally came from Russia (eg refined in India etc)? Well now, in the face of the current shortage, that sanction has now been canned👇

Fascinating.

@GeoffNorcott @LeftBrexit What’s colour’s yours if it looks like creosote?!

This is a brutal situation for Starmer. It’s like his Mrs has said it’s over, but he can stay until he gets a place. Meanwhile another bloke is already creosoting the fence.

@HoofTurf @ShitChester They’re lovely, albeit intermittent, canal boat visitors. Great tans.

@PIMPMYDIBBER @ShitChester Seen plenty of kingfishers but nudists are a new one on me, what do they get up to at the golf club?

Waverton fossil @ShitChester

@HoofTurf @ShitChester Great spot to wait for the kingfisher to show. And the nudists.

@PIMPMYDIBBER @ShitChester Good job I put this in 2 bridges south to brighten things up.

@Steven_Swinford @Fox_Claire No4 is exactly what will happen.

Totally surreal situation now: 1) Wes Streeting was preparing to launch today but may now delay because he is said to be struggling to get the numbers. His people deny this - they say he has the numbers - but say that things have changed and more cabinet ministers are going over the top and pressing for Starmer to go. But... 2) Keir Starmer insists he is going nowhere. The number calling for him to go remains at 92 - where it's been for the last 24 hours - equivalent to nearly a third of backbenchers. His allies say that good news on economy and NHS makes his case for him. He is going fo fight on 3) Enter Angela Rayner. The former Deputy PM says she has been cleared by HMRC and doesn't rule out a challenge is Streeting succeeds in triggering a contest 3) None of this is remotely sustainable. How can you have a senior Cabinet minister publicly positioning himself for a run at Number 10? How can you have a third of backbenchers publicly calling for the PM to go. 4) Someone - either Streeting or Starmer - will have to give. Otherwise the government is going to be paralysed for the forseeable future, with Starmer in office but fighting for his life and Streeting ready to go but refraining from firing the starting gun.

@magyarpeterMP Cost-heavy virtue from mitigating risks. Risks appearing performative

As my official Prime Ministerial car, I will use the Škoda Superb, which became familiar to people across the country during my campaign tour. I will also not be moving into an official government residence.

The bar isn’t high but this is one of the most important things they’ve ever published

Euston, we have a problem.

King Charles arrives back from a state visit to Instanbul.

Whoever coined the nickname “Walter Titty” for Zack Polanski deserves a Pulitzer

Polls open in about 50 minutes - and we're just starting to get the results from Tower Hamlets #election

When a chinook flies overhead, you must stop what you are doing and then stare at it in childlike wonderment with a massive grin on your face. I don't make the rules people. It's just how it is.

@ColMoeDavis @MalcolmNance Sharp shooter.

Secret Service agent on Trump’s security detail for last weekend’s golf tournament at Trump’s course in Florida arrested after he was caught masturbating in a hotel hallway. No word yet from the administration on how Biden is to blame. thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-…

Antisemitism is literally in Vogue. — @jonathanross