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@PeterBoneUK @BorisJohnson Only the wise Conservative MPs were with him until the end!
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@Nigel_Farage and Reform MPs were quite right to walk out of PMQs. It is totally unacceptable for @Keir_Starmer to refuse to answer a sensible and serious question. We should expect much better from the Prime Minister!
Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage
This is why Reform MPs walked out during PMQs. What’s the point if Starmer won’t answer the question?
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I guess this is no surprise, as Conservative councils cost you less and deliver more!
Conservatives@Conservatives
CONFIRMED: New figures show Conservative-run authorities deliver lower council tax rises than any other Party. Vote Conservative on 7 May!
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This is worth watching. @BorisJohnson at his best. Just shows what a disaster it was for this country that he was hounded out of office!
Omni™@smokelessworld
"The Prime Minister is there because of his backbenchers. And they all think they are the next Prime Minister - and the only thing in their path is you." Boris Johnson on the real mechanics of power in Westminster. Hear more on The @SmokelessWord: youtube.com/watch?v=PslDrE…
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The father of the House is right . As @EdwardLeighGB says it is not opposition questions, its Prime Ministers questions. Perhaps @KemiBadenoch and @Nigel_Farage should be at the dispatch box and @Keir_Starmer asks the questions?
Sir Edward Leigh MP@EdwardLeighGB
The PM should make some effort to answer questions put to him, not constantly refer to the Opposition's policies. This is Prime Minister's Questions not Leader of the Opposition's Questions. What is the point of this process?
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@KatieAmess has taken a big step forward by getting a review by @RobertBuckland into the murder of David Amess . David was an outstanding member of Parliament and we need to get to the truth. I know Robert and he will do his utmost to get answers.
Well done Katie.
GB News@GBNEWS
'If I have to make this my life's work, I will': Daughter of murdered MP David Amess 'massively' inspired by Nottingham families' campaign gbnews.com/politics/sir-d…
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Well done @RupertLowe10 for taking this action. As @Jacob_Rees_Mogg argues “if Lowe wins, he will not have harmed Parliament,but defended it”
Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10
I am pleased to have Jacob Rees-Mogg’s support for my legal action against an administrative body related to Parliament - my argument is aimed at empowering elected MPs over unelected officials. On Tuesday 17 March my Barrister, Christopher Newman, and I were in the Administrative Court in London at a hearing in front of High Court Judge Martin Chamberlain. It is a significant case for the power of parliament, and therefore the power of the voters. As the MP for Great Yarmouth, I am seeking to challenge the legality of the processes of the ‘Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme’, also known as the ICGS - importantly, it is entirely legally separate from Parliament. The scheme’s genesis is driven by the ‘Me Too’ movement in 2018. The ICGS are seeking to use the doctrine of ‘Parliamentary Privilege’ to assert that they are, in effect, beyond the scrutiny of the law. Parliamentary privilege exists to allow MPs to do our job away from legal threats, it does not exist to protect bureaucratic bodies. As Jacob Rees-Mogg, former Leader of the House of Commons, points out in his analysis: “As the ICGS is independent, it cannot in its workings be a Commons body, as it would then not be independent. It is really very straightforward and Rupert Lowe seems to be right." This is arguably the most significant constitutional case in years with the ICGS now arguing the polar opposite of the position the state took in the case of R v Chaytor where MPs unsuccessfully tried to use Parliamentary Privilege to avoid prosecution for abuse of expense claims. ICGS staff are not legally qualified, and this administrative body is outside the orbit of the Chamber and has no link to MPs. It has not reported to a Parliamentary Committee of MPs since 2020 when all links were severed and a panel was inserted. It is our argument that this body cannot claim to be above the law - it is not right that a bureaucratic body separate from Parliament is attempting to use parliamentary privilege, designed for elected politicians, to avoid reasonable scrutiny. Rees-Mogg ends his article: “Thus if Lowe wins, he will not have harmed Parliament, but defended it. For through cowardice we – and I was an MP at the time – abdicated our privileged responsibility and gave it to unelected boffins, who are not so much better than elected politicians after all, but much harder to eject.” We expect a Judgment after Easter, around 14 April 2026. For anyone interested, please find below links to the relevant Court documents and media coverage: Our skeleton argument. #wTfvSth2a99a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">drive.proton.me/urls/C66EX752H…
Jacobs Rees-Mogg article published - ‘Rupert Lowe and Parliamentary Privilege’. letters.jacobreesmogg.com/p/rupert-lowe-… English
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Odd to focus so much on goods when most UK exports are services. Here is the post-Brexit picture.
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So if Reeves’s claim that Brexit cost us 8% of GDP is correct it would mean we’d have grown four times more than Japan/Germany and almost twice France/Italy. Up there with Canada/US. If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you.
In reality, even with Brexit, we were fastest growing European economy in G7. Just a tad more than France (with no Frexit).
Julian Jessop@julianHjessop
And here's headline GDP on the same basis (similar points apply)... 🤔
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@ly44326 Thank you Lyn, that is very kind of you.I very much enjoyed my years in Wales.
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@PeterBoneUK Peter I remember canvassing with you in Ebbw Vale. I thought you were a star then and I have never changed my mind. Thank you for all your good work.
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Geoffrey Cox is spot on!
Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst MP@DrNShastriHurst
This is compulsory viewing. Sir Geoffrey Cox KC - a barrister with 44 years at the Bar and still practising today - delivered a powerful defence of trial by jury in yesterday's debate on the Courts and Tribunals bill 👇 @TheCriminalBar
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This is compulsory viewing.
Sir Geoffrey Cox KC - a barrister with 44 years at the Bar and still practising today - delivered a powerful defence of trial by jury in yesterday's debate on the Courts and Tribunals bill 👇 @TheCriminalBar
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All Labour governments leave office with unemployment higher than when they came in. The current government is on course to to continue this appallingly record. Well done @PeterABedford with your question.
Peter Bedford MP@PeterABedford
After 18 months of job destroying policies, Labour’s record speaks for itself: 📈Unemployment up, almost a million young people not in education, employment or training, and business confidence is flatlining📉. Only @Conservatives have a plan to get Britain working again.
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Council's official opposition refutes Reform council leader's £20m saving claim trib.al/xUzET7X
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Really good to debate @MartinSLewis this morning. We both want to see the student loan burden brought down, while Labour hike it up.
I’m sticking up for young people in the student loan trap, because no-one else in politics is.
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With a bit of luck, the next big screeching UK Government u-turn is incoming and not a moment too soon...
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump has backtracked on the Chagos Islands deal "DO NOT GIVE AWAY DIEGO GARCIA!"
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I think @EstherMcVey is absolutely right. Well done @Nigel_Farage in supporting democracy! Labour are completely hopeless.
Esther McVey@EstherMcVey1
Full marks to Nigel Farage & Reform U.K. for forcing Starmer to perform another U-turn & abandon plans to cancel local elections & deprive 4.5m people of their vote. This isn’t because Starmer saw sense at the last minute, but rather he couldn’t face losing to Reform in the High Court this week after they had brought a judicial review. This latest humiliation will pile pressure on Starmer to explain his initial decision - I’m guessing he won’t give a straight answer - because the truth is he was ducking the electorate fearful he was facing a wipe out at the local elections. It must be embarrassing for him, a former Director of Public Prosecutions, to learn that Farage knows more about the law than he does.
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The real Bidenomics
🔴 Jan 2021 Biden inauguration, cancels the Keystone XL pipeline.
Inflation rate 1.4%
🔴 March 2021 Biden signs $1.9 Trillion Covid relief bill
Inflation rate 2.6%
🔴 July 2021 Democrats propose $3.9 Trillion budget plan.
Inflation rate 5.4%
🔴 November 2021 Biden signs $1 Trillion infrastructure package.
Inflation rate 6.8%
🔴 March 2022 Biden delivers his first SOFU.
Inflation rate 7.9%
🔴 April 2022 Announces student loan forgiveness.
Inflation rate 8.3%
🔴 May 2022 acknowledges baby formula supply problem
Inflation rate 8.6%
🔴 June 2022 gas prices surge.
Inflation rate 9.1%
We can't afford any more "building back better" 😏
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Opposition propose to cut Reform’s maximum council tax increase amid ‘broken promises’ accusation trib.al/ORnoia0
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Keir Starmer in 2020.
“Hear me out: I had 8,000 staff for five years as the Director of Public Prosecutions… When they made mistakes, I carried the can. I never turn on my staff & you should never turn on your staff. I will carry the can for mistakes of any organisation I lead.”
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