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Italy Serie À, Bergamo at 14.45 Italy time event finals streaming May depend on your territory tv.sportface.it/collections/48…

One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.

It’s a busy day today. In Bergamo, Italy, Serie À, Angelina Melnikova will be competing for her team. In Baku, we’ll have the event finals of the junior trophy. There are gymnasts from RUS, AZE and UZB, both boys and girls. If you have links to video please share.

Fastest growing economy in the G7. NHS waiting list lowest in 3.5 years. Be very careful what you wish for. #BackLabour

Want to find out what the gymnasts from Russia have been doing this month? You can find some of the news here .. …writingrussiangymnastics.blogspot.com/2026/05/whats-… Alisa Mustafina … Alexandra Andrianova … David Belyavski … Elizaveta Us … Anna Kalmykova … Vladislava Urazova … and more

@ThrillaRilla369 Surely it depends on their income level. Retired people or pensioners aren’t all on the breadline.

Should retired people be fully exempt from tax after a lifetime of work? Yes or No?

‘What the public feel’ can’t be the right direction for government when media (social and mass) is so intent on dictating the narrative We have lost sight of the difference between politics, policy ànd government. The power of media as part of Establishment is out of proportion

Is politics a competition for who can achieve the best social media ànd mass media coverage? Or is it the work of developing policy, and transforming that policy into practice for the benefit of populations ànd the environment? It seems to me that it is difficult to do both.

NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare around £380,000 in outside interests (approx 4x MPs annual salary) incl payments for promoting gold, presenting on GB News and from his friend George Cottrell, within 28 days. Reform UK leader apologised for what he described as administrative errors by his team.

Rayner has been cleared, but the media ran 30 front pages in total, averaging 4 front pages a day during the peak of the story. Farage's £5 million gift has had two front page stories. Why would there be such a difference in reporting standards for the two?

'We need to take a deep breath.' Labour MP Hilary Benn says that he 'supports' Keir Starmer and encourages his party to 'get on with governing'.

If Starmer has really messed up the voting, Burnham won’t be elected. Especially if the alternative candidates work together, and there is tactical voting.

Wes Streeting’s head is flat and square. He looks like a cat that has been hit by an anvil in Tom and Jerry.

@NerineHalton And there is no guarantee that he will win his by election. He could lose Labour à seat

You know what really boils my piss ? Burnham dumps Manchester , creating a hugely undesirable mayoral election which Labour won’t necessarily win. Then he swans into Downing Street after Starmer’s done all the heavy lifting. 3rd rate behaviour. Enraged here. 😡

To anyone considering a leadership challenge I say - put the country first, not your own interests or those you might claim are the interests of the party. Keir Starmer has a massive democratic mandate from the public, nobody has the right to seek to depose him, nobody. Not Wes, not Ed, not Andy, not Angie. Yes Keir is unpopular in the polls, that’s current public sentiment - it’s not a mandate for getting rid of him. Opinion polls are snapshots of opinions. Local election results are always an opportunity to register a protest. Labour has a job to do, we’re not even two years in yet, things are tough - a leadership challenge would be self indulgent and illogical - in my view.

Excellent news. Better than forecast. We have a lot to do to get more cash into families’ pockets but this is superb.

@Peston ‘Wishful thinking’? By whom? As a long standing member of the Labour Party, I just want to get on with governing the country instead of shooting ourselves in the foot. Don’t assume so much. You are giving yourself away.

Those close to Streeting say he has more than 81 nominations and could trigger a leadership contest. But they believe Streeting’s announcement could be pre-empted by the PM announcing a timetable for his departure, even today. This could all be feverish wishful thinking. But I have been told by less partisan government sources that we are “in the end game”. The alleged background is that some signatories of the “I back Keir letter” are telling him privately his time is up, that assorted cabinet ministers are set to tell him the same, and that one of those who works closest to the PM has been briefing such to backbench MPs. BUT Downing Street is saying the ball is in Streeting’s court and there is no chance of the PM announcing a departure timetable today. And that if Streeting wants a leadership contest, he will have to trigger it. It is quite the game of chicken, with the future of the government at stake

NEW: Chancellor tells me in Downing Street that a leadership election would plunge Britain into chaos A preview of the argument senior ministers will be making later today if/when Streeting goes for it

There's a lot of talk about angry MPs, but on this platform there are tons of angry and very frustrated Labour members who support @Keir_Starmer. We haven't bought into any of the frenzied circus that the media has become, and we all loudly condemn the opportunists, plotters and schemers who could destroy the Labour Party. I think we're representative of a larger number of people who don't use the platform but know how to use their minds. I'm grateful to all the MP's who back Keir Starmer no matter what and who are making their presence felt here. #IStandWithStarmer

You’ll miss Keir Starmer when he’s gone spectator.com/article/youll-… excellent piece