Stuart Lynn GBR

@BBCNews And the band played Believe It If You Like. 🤥

Farage paid for £1.4m house with I'm a Celebrity cash, says Reform bbc.in/4udSPGx

@SamiraAhmedUK @newswatchbbc @BBCBreakfast I’m sorry to say it Samira but as long as the BBC are allowed to mark their own homework, programmes like Newswatch feel more like tick box exercises than genuine accountability … rarely, if ever, leading to any meaningful action.

Latest @newswatchbbc is on viewers' concerns that BBC News didn't just report, but encouraged this week's drama over the Labour leadership. From midnight Fri on link/Sat 745am BBC1 @BBCBreakfast bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

@LBC @NatashaC I can’t help feel you’re getting ready for the Oscar’s but the screenplay hasn’t yet been written!

'Andy Burnham’s by-election gamble will decide Labour’s future' ✍️ @NatashaC for LBC Opinion lbc.co.uk/article/andy-b…

@LeeHodler @SangitaMyska Right, left, and everything in between is largely a matter of perspective. If your own views lean to the right, you may see him as a centrist rather than far right. Others, myself included, take a very different view of where he sits politically.

@SangitaMyska I’m struggling to understand why he’s always called far right when he seems quite centrist in his views? Enlighten me pls!

‘English Patriot’ Tommy Robinson says he’s “spreading the word about the failed state of Britain” while on tour in America. The far right activist is also boasting about an invite to the State Department; Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, helped make it happen. Time to remind ourselves how & why their toxic bromance began: Why is Elon Musk backing Tommy Robinson? | WATCH Long Story Short: youtu.be/O_AbofNISqw?si… via @YouTube

@ChronicleLive Migration is dropping. Economy is recovering. UK foreign policy is effectively navigating a historically risky world. But some seemingly unconsciously incompetent @UKLabour MPs are intent on throwing it all away by undermining the PM and Party 🤦‍♂️

North East Labour MP says King's Speech failed to deliver 'bold moves' amid PM speculation chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas…

He has a point !!

@BBCNews Another Prime Minister faced a sustained barrage of propaganda from external actors, alongside relentless pressure from within his own party. Thankfully, he did not cut and run, outlasted those who sought to undermine, and changed the course of history. #WinstonChurchill

Andy Burnham to make bid to return to Commons as pressure mounts on Starmer bbc.in/4un0T7N

@SangitaMyska To be fair, they both seem to have a long standing and rather opportunistic relationship with the truth. 🤥

1/🚨Elon Musk has just accused Nigel Farage of “lying”. The world’s richest man posted on X in response to the Reform’s leader saying, “He [Musk] wanted to give us a load of money if I said certain things publicly and I refused.”

@SangitaMyska Normal practice !

Brutal.

@SkyNews @skysarahjane Another Prime Minister faced a sustained barrage of propaganda from external actors, alongside relentless pressure from within his own party. Thankfully, he did not cut and run, outlasted those who sought to undermine, and changed the course of history. #WinstonChurchill

"He has no choice but to step down" Diane Abbott tells @skysarahjane that Sir Keir Starmer 'cannot hang on in these circumstances'

@SkyNews Wind back the clock to a time when another Prime Minister was subject to a sustained barrage of propaganda from external actors and pressure from his own party. Thankfully, that PM did not cut and run, and instead outlasted those who sought to undermine him. #WinstonChurchill

Jess Phillips says Starmer 'lacks drive to get anything done' in first interview since resigning trib.al/XTPaxpQ

@BBCBreaking @BBCNews Alternative reality: - Burnham loses Makerfield - Lab lose Manchester Mayor - Lab still left infighting - Opposition push for election on grounds Labour incapable of forming cohesive govt ? - Lab wiped out at election All self inflicted and avoidable with common sense.

UK PM Keir Starmer will not seek to block Andy Burnham from becoming the Labour candidate in Makerfield, BBC understands bbc.in/4uJ0MDd

Labour MP Josh Simons says he will stand down to allow Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham the chance to run for Parliament Follow live: bbc.in/42TTd0V

@SangitaMyska @thenerve_news @michaeljswalker Alternatively: - Burnham loses Makerfield - Lab lose Manchester Mayor - Lab still left infighting - Opposition push for election on grounds Labour incapable of forming cohesive govt ? - Lab wiped out at election All self inflicted and avoidable with common sense.

@thenerve_news @michaeljswalker 6/ Farage is, as ever, full of bluster. The fact remains, if anyone can beat Reform in Makerfield, it’s Andy Burnham:

🧵NEW: Josh Simons, MP for Makerfield, has resigned his seat to allow Andy Burnham, Manchester Mayor, to stand in a by-election. Simons is the controversial head of Labour Together, that hired a PR firm which spied on journalists - including Paul Holden. He wrote the book @StarmertheFraud which was highly critical of Starmer’s rise - accusing him, Morgan McSweeny, Mandelson etc of brutally smearing Corbyn and other MPs. 1/

@hzeffman @BBCPolitics Wow the risks with this: - Burnham loses Makerfield - Lab lose Manchester Mayor - Lab still left infighting - Opposition push for election on grounds Labour incapable of forming cohesive govt ? - Lab wiped out at election All self inflicted and could have been avoided !

EXCLUSIVE Sir Keir Starmer will not seek to block Andy Burnham from becoming the Labour candidate in Makerfield, the BBC understands. An ally of Keir Starmer said: “Keir is focused on bringing the party together so it can tackle the issues facing working families.”

@lewis_goodall Yup a lot to be said for not counting chickens !!

Prepare to hear a lot more about Patrick Gordon Walker

@AndyBurnhamGM History will judge you on whether this was “saving the party” … or simply pressing the self-destruct button for the Labour party and your own political career.

I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election. I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics. Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic. Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures. However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people. Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place. I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that. Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again. ENDS

@joshsimonsmp History will judge you on whether this was “saving the party” … or simply pressing the self-destruct button.

For decades, Westminster has overseen the managed decline of towns like mine. We have talked big, then acted small, stuck in a politics of incrementalism that cannot meet the moment. We have lost the trust of those our party was built to serve. It is my unwavering belief that nothing short of urgent, radical, courageous reform will make a difference. That must start with a change in leadership. Today, I am putting the people I represent and the country I love first and will be resigning as MP for Makerfield. I am standing aside so that Andy Burnham can return to his home, fight to re-enter Parliament, and if elected, drive the change our country is crying out for. This has not been an easy decision. This is my family’s home, where only a few weeks ago, doctors and nurses at Wigan Infirmary saved our newborn son’s life. But we all must make choices and in recent days I found myself with a difficult one: defend the status quo or step forward and act. I have made my choice. I am in politics because politics is how you change lives for the better. My party has one last chance to do that: deliver for the people and places I represent, drive economic growth, secure our borders, reform our state and politics, and change a status quo that is not working. That is the fight. I believe Andy is the one to lead it.

@BethRigby The wise move is always to take the moral high ground!!

PM letter to Streeting: I’m am truly sorry you will not longer be sat in the cabinet

@BBCPolitics As the proverb goes: ‘When you point a finger at someone, three fingers point back at yourself.’ Streeting, like the rest of the Cabinet, cannot be absolved of responsibility if there really has been such a vacuum and drift.

Wes Streeting resigns as health secretary, citing government's "drift" and lack of "vision" bbc.in/4dndMr3

@ITVNewsPolitics As the proverb goes: ‘When you point a finger at someone, three fingers point back at yourself.’ Streeting, like the rest of the Cabinet, cannot be absolved of responsibility if there really has been such a vacuum and drift.

'Where we need vision, we have a vacuum. Where we need direction, we have drift' Health Secretary Wes Streeting resigns from government In a letter, Streeting called for Starmer's resignation, criticising Starmer's leadership and the direction of the Labour Party