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PhD, policy, strategy wonk. This is my personal account. Views expressed not affiliated to any organisation. RT≠ endorsement. Not influencer, Fatfingers & typos

Anonymity has a reason Katılım Nisan 2009
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Education Not Taxation
Education Not Taxation@EducationNotTax·
The @Conservatives published their Plan for Britain today. In it, they committed to "repealing the Education Tax supporting parents who invest in their children’s future." On behalf of thousands of parents across the country, we thank you, @KemiBadenoch & @LauraTrottMP. We look forward to not only repealing this tax, but helping the next Government create an education system that promotes learning, innovation and aspiration among our schools -- and holds schools accountable to meeting students' needs. We ALL want great schools. Let's build schools up, not tear them down. conservatives.com/our-plan-for-b…
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@NicDakin55 Do they feed you while you are held hostage?
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Nic Dakin MP
Nic Dakin MP@NicDakin55·
Off to Buckingham Palace to be the “hostage” ensuring HM The King’s safe return when he opens Parliament - a tradition dating back to Charles I. Not sure I’m looking forward to it, but glad to play my part!
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@darrenpjones Iran is now affecting us, it is holding the world hostage and breaking agreed conventions and rules. By all means don’t join USA but can you get other countries together and demonstrate that this is not acceptable and will not be allowed.
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Darren Jones MP
Darren Jones MP@darrenpjones·
Just out of Cabinet and then the Middle East Response Committee. The impact of the conflict in Iran will be felt here at home at a time when we know the cost of living has been difficult for many. This Labour government is working hard to protect families and businesses from the economic shocks as much as we can. Serious times call for serious leadership, which is exactly what the Prime Minister is providing.
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Alan Smith
Alan Smith@AlanJLSmith·
New guidance on Inheritance Tax on Pensions: - Family members (beneficiaries) and personal representatives are jointly and severally liable for paying IHT from pension fund. - They have 6 months to pay. - Interest and late payment fees apply after that. - Property held in pensions will often have to be sold to pay the IHT. - The short timeline is likely to create ‘fire sale’ reduced valuations. - Yet IHT is payable on the gross property value pre death/property sale. - Pension providers, trustees, administrators, solicitors, personal representatives and family - all have to liaise and work through the admin - a logistical nightmare. - In a tight window whilst the family is grieving. - And then family beneficiaries pay income tax on income from the net fund - after deduction of inheritance tax. Double tax. - All this to possibly raise £1.5 billion - or about 48 hours of annual NHS spending. Thanks Rachel.
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Lee Nallalingham@LNallalingham

🚨 A message to ALL politicians: Grow up. Here’s what people actually want: ✅ To not be taxed to death ✅ Safe streets and safe communities ✅ Access to healthcare when needed ✅ A good education for our children ✅ Affordable housing ✅ The ability to retire with dignity ✅ A safety net if we fall on hard times ✅ The chance to build a better life through hard work People do not care about your endless ideological debates, petty point scoring and political theatre. They just want a country that works for the citizens of it. If you want our votes… …just do your jobs properly and deliver for the country. Sincerely, Every sane British Citizen.

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Lisa Mckenzie
Lisa Mckenzie@redrumlisa·
Doesn't matter where you are in this debate everyone should be able to understand that a Trade Union exists to protect workers rights against capital and not to exist to campaign & hijack a movement for a very small number of an activist class pushing their single issue agenda through the Trade Union movement they work for. The identity politic bourgeois activist class who have marched into the institutions are a real problem & threat to the working class
Darlington Nursing Union@DarlingtonUnion

The Trans flag flies over the Royal College of Nursing HQ in London @theRCN

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Sharron Davies HoL MBE
Sharron Davies HoL MBE@sharrond62·
I do not feel sorry for any of them. I feel sorry for the pensioners who lost their winter fuel payments, the waspi women, the farmers inc those who committed suicide rather than not be able to pass their family farms on, the 1000s & 1000s of people who have lost their jobs as companies fold, the children removed from their schools & friends… non of it raising money for Britain, just tasty student envy politics & economic illiteracy
Julian Jessop@julianHjessop

"Rachel Reeves can't escape blame for this mess" FYI, I have a piece in the Daily Telegraph on the economic fallout from the chaos at the heart of government... 🤔 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/1…

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@SamJRushworth No change to how it is now then. People selling off because they cannot afford and cannot rent in the interim. Stop playing your political games when people are still struggling and hurting.
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Sam Rushworth MP
Sam Rushworth MP@SamJRushworth·
I met someone in my surgery this weekend who had to sell their home because they could not afford the huge increase in their mortgage when their fixed rate came to an end during Truss' self-made crisis. Stop trying to re-write history.
James Cleverly🇬🇧@JamesCleverly

Side note. To the Labour MPs who shout “Liz Truss” whenever the economy is discussed, should note that the UK 10yr bond yield under Truss peaked at 4.7% This morning, because of Reeves’ and Starmer’s ineptitude the 10yr bond yield is 5.02% Labour crashed the economy.

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Steve Loftus
Steve Loftus@LoftusSteve·
I strongly dislike reporters shouting at Ministers as they enter Downing Street. It's performative nonsense. Not once in history has one of them replied. It's childish and unprofessional.
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@KayBurley No matter how good the communication it is the lack of vision & actions that hurts. Breakfast in sch, 2 child cap, renters reforms, VAT on education, farm tax etc might be good to have for Lab members but none of them shd have been top priority. It should have been jobs& growth
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Kay Burley
Kay Burley@KayBurley·
He may well be a good man. What we need is a prime minister with the ability to sell his message and take the country with him
John Rushforth@JohnRushforth1

@KayBurley Yes, I think you are fair, but you are a member and participant of the forces that were and are determined to destroy a good man.

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@JuliaHB1 Not again..it will stop making any sense to work
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Julia Hartley-Brewer
Julia Hartley-Brewer@JuliaHB1·
Do you hear that sound? That was the sound of your taxes going up.
Alex Wickham@alexwickham

BREAKING: Labour’s influential Tribune group of more than 100 MPs has called for less “caution” on fiscal policy in a new pamphlet that demands a change of direction to the left Louise Haigh, the Labour MP who chairs the group, says the current structure of the UK Treasury’s role in fiscal policy “resolved in favour of caution” She says Britain’s “fiscal and institutional framework” is “unfit for purpose” She also calls for major tax rises on wealth With extraordinary timing, Tribune has published this pamphlet at the exact same time as the bond market opens this morning

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@ChristianJMay Absolutely till that happens they should shelve all their ideological projects as they just create distractions with little gain.
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Christian May
Christian May@ChristianJMay·
Governing today should be about one thing and one thing only: economic growth. Not as a nice to have, not as proof that you’re doing a good job, but as the vital underpinning requirement for everything. This government has never understood that. Chances are no new Labour PM will, either.
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Matthew Syed
Matthew Syed@matthewsyed·
The ministers urging Starmer to go are feeding the hysteria. The next leader will be subject to instant leadership speculation and the next, and the next, whether Labour, Reform or Tory. Britain is becoming ungovernable. And the media fixation on this tittle tattle is not helping
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@KayBurley Not fair. Which policies are the best? None of his policies were balanced which is bad policy making. I know his job is tough and respect him for taking it on but I feel Cons, Labour both suffer because they are not single ideology parties but they focused on policies that were.
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Kay Burley
Kay Burley@KayBurley·
I have never been a fan of Keir Starmer as Prime Minister. Top politicians need to realise it’s not just the message, but how you sell it that cuts through to the public psyche. His policies may well have been among the best for the country and some undoubtedly were but Sir Keir never seemed able to land them with the public. Voters rarely reward policies they don’t emotionally connect with. Yesterday’s reset speech didn’t help. What exactly was he trying to tell us. Now, in what could be the death throes of his tenancy in No 10 after less than two years at the top, I do find myself feeling for him. He pulled himself up by his bootstraps and reached not one but two of the highest offices in the land. So, as the wannabes circle the Cabinet table this morning, positioning for what may come next, spare a thought for a man who genuinely wanted to make a difference, but never quite mastered the art of making his case. Fair?
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Matthew Stadlen
Matthew Stadlen@MatthewStadlen·
If Labour MPs don’t step back from the brink, they will plunge the country as well as their party into chaos.
Alex Wickham@alexwickham

***BREAKING: Labour’s soft-left condemns Wes Streeting’s bid for No10 and vows to oust him from Downing Street if he becomes PM*** A senior soft-left source blasts Team Streeting for their public statements calling for a “swift” and “rapid” contest before Andy Burnham can get in. The source says: “If Wes thinks he can pull off some kind of stitch up to avoid a fair process that he will have no legitimacy even if he briefly ends up in office. There would be no support for the government in the Commons and we would challenge him at the first opportunity. He’d be lucky to outlast a lettuce.” It means the Labour Party is in civil war tonight Streeting appears to be trying to force a contest before Burnham is eligible It is causing meltdown among soft-left and left MPs Senior figures on the left of the party are threatening to oust Streeting from No10 if he succeeds in his bid to be PM

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@linmeitalks In the GE Labour were voted in because people did not want Tories, few were paying attention to policies and believed they were electing pragmatic govt. If Angela or Burnham or Ed come because they are far left, that is not what people voted for, they should seek another mandate
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Lin Mei
Lin Mei@linmeitalks·
Please for the love of everything …. Please not Ed Miliband or Angela Rayner…let’s be a serious country.
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@DeborahMeaden I don’t support many of Labour policies, one sided and unintended consequences hurts but I cannot understand this call for leadership change. What will that achieve. Our politics is devoid of ideas that makes a difference. Labour knew they’d get a dubbing so why this noise now?
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@tomhfh We are ungovernable and we are broke. Till we are broke, we will be ungovernable and because we will be ungovernable we will continue to be broke. Politicians and the electorate both are in their grand delusions
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Tom Harwood
Tom Harwood@tomhfh·
Until someone bites the bullet, slashes spending, and does the difficult pro-growth reforms this country desperately needs, we will continue to have a ridiculous carousel of Prime Minsters. The truth is the Prime Minister could have survived the Mandelson scandal if people felt better off in their pockets. While there’s no growth, there’s no longevity of political tenure. Blair survived plenty of scandal, and plenty of Mandelson, ultimately because everything in life’s wider context didn’t feel so desperately shit. Until we have a political class brave enough to end the overspending, liberalise the labour market, and *actually* overhaul the planning system - we’re going to be stuck in this same psychodrama of doom.
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Lin Mei
Lin Mei@linmeitalks·
People are starting to not care if they are called racist anymore. Black and brown people may need to get used to this. People repeatedly called this country racist and pushed more and more for policy which assisted minority groups over the natives and now this will be the backlash. We will possibly see people look you dead in the eye and say yes I am racist and what ? Just like they do in Bulgaria. It’s gone mainstream.
Felix@hfc_felix

When did everyone suddenly decide it was ok to be openly racist??

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