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@johnbawilliams @Lilly_jo_Cullen @darrenpjones And don't forget the Senior Manager of the other middle manager managining the Management Insight Department that's the measuring the oversight.

@Lilly_jo_Cullen @darrenpjones That will be the senior delivery manager alongside the secretary managing the middle manager delivering management oversight.

Each department in government will now have its own delivery unit, led by a senior civil servant. And every Secretary of State and Minister of State will be given a new “delivery advisor” in their private office to support this work. These new delivery functions will be accountable to both their Secretary of State and to my team. This builds on my recent work setting up the new joint No10 and Cabinet Office Delivery Unit. Read more: civilserviceworld.com/professions/ar…

@IwanDoherty98 @PrestonsWomble @SimonMagus Does improved transport e.g. electrification of Blackpool Nth to Man help - far easier to get to Man now? Creating satellites to Man farther away? Preston isn't the city I knew in the 80s but much improved again.

@PrestonsWomble @SimonMagus Oldham is a suburb, Preston, Wigan & Blackburn aren't suburbs of Manchester

Manchester's economic success is a bit of a myth. Essentially Manchester and Salford City centres have cannibalised all the surrounding centres. All very shiny but making Manchester rich by making Preston and Blackburn poor is not economic success.

🇬🇧 Most British schoolchildren are taught about Magna Carta. They are taught it was sealed in twelve fifteen at Runnymede. They are taught it is the foundation of English liberty. They are taught it is one of the most important documents in human history. They are not taught what came next. They are not taught about the eighty years between twelve fifteen and twelve ninety-five when ordinary Englishmen forced three successive kings to write down, for the first time in any kingdom in medieval Europe, what English law was, what English liberty was, and how an English king must govern. They are not taught about the Charter of the Forest, which restored the right to graze, gather firewood, and live on common land, and which remained in force for seven hundred and fifty-four years. They are not taught about the Provisions of Oxford in twelve fifty-eight, often called England's first written constitution, which placed the king under a council of fifteen and required Parliament to meet three times a year. They are not taught about the Provisions of Westminster in twelve fifty-nine, which subjected the barons themselves to the same law they had forced upon the king. They are not taught about Simon de Montfort, an earl born in France who died for England, who summoned the first Parliament in English history to include ordinary commoners alongside the great lords. They are not taught about the Statute of Marlborough in twelve sixty-seven, which is the oldest piece of statute law in the United Kingdom still in force today. ⚖️ Seven hundred and fifty-nine years old. If you've ever taken a debt to court in England, you've used it. 🏠 If you've ever rented a home, you've been protected by it. 👑 If a creditor can't lawfully drag your possessions into the street to settle what you owe, that's because of a law signed seven hundred and fifty-nine years ago. They are not taught about the Model Parliament of twelve ninety-five, summoned by Edward the First, which became the shape of every English Parliament since. Eighty years. Three successive kings. The first written constitution in any kingdom in medieval Europe. It was not given to them. It was not handed down from God or king or Pope. ✍️ It was written. By Englishmen. For England. 🇬🇧 The British write their own history. They always have. This one needed more than a thread. The full story is in our video, watch it below 👇 Help us remember who we are. Help us remember every British achievement. 👇🙏 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

@billwells_1 @RECNeil Thank you!

@RWignall You might also like to see this thread. @RECNeil

@billwells_1 @RobNoLastName Re self employed, is this the long term impact of IR35 and MTD? Plus, pure speculation, is/was self employment skewed to an age group now able to retire? A generational shift?

@RobNoLastName And do believe should look across all measures. Not just focus on RTI/PAYE. Don't use it as a leading indicator as much more prone to revisions than other sources. Also, more important is that it only measures employees. And to me the more important Q if why is self-emp falling.

Tories: 1 month of negative growth in 4 years. Labour: 12 months of negative growth in 18 months. Not making a political point. Stating a fact. Chart: The Spectator (2WibQ) Source: ONS Payrolled employee counts from PAYE RTI UK, all industries, seasonally adjusted (21 Apr)

🦴 A skeleton in a cave. Nine thousand years old. They tested his DNA. 🧬 And matched it to a man living half a mile away. 🇬🇧 In 1903, workers were digging a drainage channel inside a gorge in Somerset. They hit bone. A body. Curled up. Deep inside the rock. He'd been there since before Stonehenge. Before the pyramids. They called him Cheddar Man. 🧀 He hunted deer through forests that covered this island. He fished rivers that still run through the same valley today. And then he died. Alone. In a cave. For a century, he sat behind glass. A museum piece. A curiosity. A name on a plaque. Then in 1997, a scientist from Oxford had an idea. He took DNA from one of Cheddar Man's teeth. Then he went into the village. Walked into the local school. Swabbed the cheeks of twenty residents. And ran the tests. 🧬 One matched. Adrian Targett. History teacher. Living half a mile from the cave. Three hundred generations. Same family. Same valley. Nine thousand years. And the line never left. He didn't know. The longest unbroken connection between a living person and an ancient ancestor. Anywhere in the world. Same hills. Same river. Same village. Half a mile from the cave. You are the reason we can tell these stories. proudofus.co.uk/support Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@Jordan420y20245 @MoosesFelix @SusieM414141 In England, Heifer is an under 2 year old cow that hasn't yet given birth. It still works - in a different way.

@MoosesFelix @SusieM414141 Great clip, but heifer means bitch. Lmao

Oh, this is not going to end well. Trust me 🇺🇸 Messing with a Southern Gal and she says "L.A. heifers". Heifer is code word trouble coming And it did. With a smile on her face. To the bone Game, set and match.....☺️

🇬🇧 He called her the Enchantress of Number. 🧮 In 1843 a British woman wrote the world’s first computer programme. For a computer that didn’t exist yet. 💻 Her name was Ada Lovelace. Her father was Lord Byron. Her mother feared she would inherit his madness so she was taught mathematics instead. 📐 In 1833 she met Charles Babbage. He was building a machine that could calculate. Everyone else saw a calculator. Ada saw something a century ahead of its time. That a machine could process not just numbers but anything expressed as symbols. Music. Language. Logic. Everything. ⚙️ She translated a French article about his engine into English. Then added her own notes. Three times as long as the original. ✍️ Note G. The world’s first computer programme. Written in 1843. For a machine that would not be built for another hundred years. 📜 Published under her initials only. A.A.L. Because she was a woman in 1843 and her name was not permitted on the page. 🔏 The computer was finally built a century later. Alan Turing referenced her work in his 1950 computing paper. The US Department of Defense named a programming language after her. 🖥️ Every computer programme ever written traces back to a note written by a British woman in a Victorian study by candlelight. 🕯️🇬🇧 Did they teach you her name? If you want to see more stories like this, find us at proudofus.co.uk If you want to help us keep them alive: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@mwt2008 @DonaldPond6 Hi, are there a unit cost and industrial make up graphs too? Or assumptions about new technology that is required to enable businesses to continue operating during the transition? Thanks.

That 20% figure is true today. It’s not a limit, it’s the starting point. We electrify the other 80%. Heat → heat pumps Transport → EVs Industry → electrification + hydrogen where needed Electric tech is far more efficient: • Heat pumps: ~3 to 4× efficient vs gas • EVs: ~3× more efficient than ICE So total energy demand falls as we electrify. That 80% doesn’t stay 80%. It shrinks. And there are renewable options for the rest: • Sustainable biomass • Green hydrogen for hard to electrify sectors • Synthetic fuels for aviation The real system is: More electricity Less total energy Lower costs Lower emissions This isn’t a gap in the plan. It is the plan.

Only 20% of energy usage in the UK is electricity. When conditions are right we can produce most electricity through renewables. That's what people focus on. But 80% of our energy needs are not electric and there is no renewable option. Nobody mentions this.

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@Joanna__Hardy @Jebadoo2 @PaulFosterMP the real life potential impacts of the removal of right to jury trial - the impact on right to representation under Legal Aid too - a change littered with unintended consequences!

Hello, there 👋 Have you heard David Lammy MP and Sarah Sackman MP talking about people stealing bottles of whisky and swiping mobile telephones as examples of people who should not get jury trials? Well. I’d like to tell you a story. 🪡 🧵

Again, Dave. It isn’t the defendant that decides how a case progresses. The Magistrates decides the issue and sends. If the Magistrate decides to keep it down then the accused, with legal advice, can then elect. Venue is decided by the Judge. Stop misleading the public.

Why am I doing “Farmer Luke’s Potatoes?” Well basic the trade has crashed, there no demand for them, so I was was Sitting on a literal shed of Potatoes, with no other income stream with all the money I’ve invested in them, other bills mounting up, rent day around the corner it honestly wasn’t good, it was heading to be a disaster. So I thought I had to do something to get any money in so “Farmer Luke’s Potatoes” was born! That’s why I’m so great full to everyone that’s brought a bag, it’s keeping me going and farming 🥔🚜

@chorltia @vincristine @DrSteveTaylor Thank you

@RWignall @vincristine @DrSteveTaylor This is a reflection of both increased visits from the 2004 GP contract, with more proactive preventative care and more health seeking behaviour for new problems.

The ‘murky’ world of GP finance This is an example of a 10,000 Patient practice The average patient will have 7 GP practice appts/year, 1 A&E attendance every 3 years, 2 hospital appts/year £169/patient/year goes GP £3079 goes to hospitals £40pa would solve GP crisis

@chorltia @vincristine @DrSteveTaylor Hi, out of interest, is this visits to a practice or to GP? If I went for a blood sample and then results - two visits (neitherinvolvinga Dr)? Interested if preventative care is in part driving this volume increase. Thanks.

@vincristine @DrSteveTaylor And that has increased dramatically. When I started as a GP in 1997 the number of GP visits a year was less than 3

@viral_youtubes @amshilparaghu The legacy of Leyland bus lives on - Leyland Motors made tanks in WW2 - clearly passed on a few tricks!!

That Ashok Leyland bus taking the hit on Dubai roads and barely flinching is straight Indian engineering. These things are built with high-tensile steel frames and reinforced chassis that get torture-tested daily on overloaded, pothole-riddled highways. Some have quietly crossed 1 million+ km without a major rebuild. Missile debris or not, the bus said “nice try”

Missile hits Ashok Leyland bus in Dubai Roads. Build quality of Ashok Leyland bus 👌

@TheCriminalBar @LincolnHouse @RedLionChambers @BarristerSecret @BaristaBarrist1 @KarlTurnerMP @DrNShastriHurst @HelenGrantMP @RobertBuckland @CourtsIdle @SocLabLaw @@PaulFosterMP is this just magical thinking? Surely not a way to deliver justice to victim or defendent - never mind the effect on the Magistrates themselves!

Just like magic, the work will disappear! The Impact Assessment for the Courts Bill 2026 claims that the Magistrates' Courts will be able to complete cases THREE TIMES FASTER than the Crown Court. It assumes that work which is currently taking 24,000 sitting days in the Crown Court, staffed by professional judges, will be completed within 8,500 sitting days in the Magistrates' Court, staffed by volunteer magistrates. How can that be so? Well, the IA goes on to say that it is assumed that magistrates will be able to complete the more serious and complex trials which would now been allocated to them within an average of 4 hours. Guilty pleas will take 30 minutes. So under this new system a defendant will have 4 hours to challenge the case against them (including time for resolving applications such as disclosure, bad character, hearsay, s.41 etc), when facing a prison sentence of 18 months or 2 years. Either this is going to be rough justice, or the assumptions in the IA are deeply flawed.

@TheCriminalBar @Jebadoo2 @KarlTurnerMP @timespolitics @DrNShastriHurst @aliciakearns @HackneyAbbott @morton_wendy @KimJohnsonMP @HelenGrantMP @CourtsIdle @BarristerSecret @PaulFosterMP the potential unintended consequences of a rushed through change. Basic principles of justice abandoned!! This can't be the right approach when other options aren't yet exhausted.

“This is an affront to justice.” Andrew Thomas KC, vice-chair of the Criminal Bar Association, said the bill would mean “ordinary people will be priced out of justice”. He said trials with unrepresented defendants could actually take longer, adding: “So much for swift justice.” Today’s @thetimes by Sunday Times special correspondent @emilydugan He said: “This is an affront to justice. It risks miscarriages of justice for middle-income people from hardworking families who earn too much to qualify for legal aid but not enough to afford to pay a lawyer to represent them in a three or four-day trial. It also means that complainants will face being cross-examined by the very people who they allege abused or assaulted them.”

#ConsumerRightsAct #Currys #KnowYourRights A rant for @currys, who are currently breaking the law. Normally I'd let it go, but your customer service is a shitshow and your desire to wash your hands of the faulty items you sell is illegal. On 10 October 2025, I walked into your Exeter shop and bought a PCSpecialist computer. This was the birthday present for my 12-year-old. A present they'd been dropping hints about for months with the subtlety of a child who remains terrible at poker. They'd saved their own pocket money towards it. I topped it up. It was, genuinely, a lovely moment. For four months, it was perfect. Homework. Games. The full experience of being 12 in 2025. On 22 February 2026, four months and 12 days after purchase, it stopped working. No final farewell. It just… stopped. My child sat there pressing the power button with increasing desperation, and nothing happened. The machine that had cost a significant amount of adult money, and a not-insignificant amount of 12-year-old pocket money, was dead. Fine, I thought. This is what a receipt is for. I'll call Currys (the shop I bought it from, with my money, as a birthday present for my child) and they'll sort it. Your staff told me that my contract wasn't with Currys, and that I should contact the manufacturer. They also told me to go in-store with the machine to have it looked at. I went in-store. The in-store staff told me to call the number I had just called. I called again. I was given the phone number for PCSpecialist. Phone → store → same phone → manufacturer. A perfect circle of not helping. A masterpiece of redirection. If it weren't happening to me, I'd almost admire it. Now let's talk about the law, because I think someone at Currys may have forgotten it exists. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 is not a suggestion. It is extremely clear on this point: when you buy something from a retailer, your legal contract is with that retailer. Not the brand on the box. Not the manufacturer. Not some third party you've never met. The shop. The one that took your money and handed you a receipt. Within the first six months of purchase, the law presumes the fault existed at the point of sale. I don't have to prove the computer was faulty when I bought it. Currys has to prove it wasn't. The burden of proof sits entirely with them. During this window, I am legally entitled to a repair or a replacement, and if either of those fails, a full refund. We are currently inside that six-month window. I bought it on 10 October 2025. I complained on 22 February 2026. I am four and a half months in. The law is not ambiguous about what happens here. What makes this particularly spectacular is that Currys' own published policy acknowledges the six-month framework. It is written down on their website. They know the rules. They have typed them up and put them on the internet. They are simply hoping that their customers are too tired from the runaround to actually enforce them. PCSpecialist are entirely blameless in this story. They manufactured a machine. Currys sold that machine to me. My dispute is with Currys. Directing me to PCSpecialist is the retail equivalent of Tesco selling you a gone-off chicken, and when you try to return it, handing you the farmer's phone number. The farmer didn't sell you the chicken. You don't have to knock on the farmer's door. You go back to the supermarket. This is not a controversial legal position. It is just how shops work. My 12-year-old has been without their birthday present for a few days now. They have been, I have to say, considerably more gracious about this than I have. They haven't complained. They've been patient. They are, in this situation, the bigger person — which is a sentence I never expected to write about a primary school leaver, but here we are. They shouldn't have to be patient. They should just have a working computer. So this is where we are, @currys. I know my rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015. But before I go down the small claims court route, and start contacting every journalist in my network on a slow news day, I am giving you the opportunity to do the right thing, in the hope that public accountability is more efficient than your customer service helpline. A child saved their pocket money for this. Sort it out.

@ClarksonsFarm1 Paul's Farm Shop, Dunkirk Lane, Leyland. Great pies and cheese selection too!

What is the name of your local farm shop, butchers, or produce store? A great way to advertise freely for these local legends!🙌🏼