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Katılım Mart 2011
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Sam Ashworth-Hayes
Sam Ashworth-Hayes@SAshworthHayes·
The UK immigration system in action: migrants earning the lowest wages are the most likely to remain in the UK long term, while there is some evidence that those with the highest salaries are the most likely income group to leave.
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Peter Hague
Peter Hague@peterrhague·
The Labour Party plotters have decided not to try and take Number 10, and have been offered safe passage by Alexander Lukashenko if they stand down.
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Steven Swinford
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford·
EXCLUSIVE: Ed Miliband has told Cabinet ministers that he is prepared to run for the Labour leadership if Wes Streeting triggers an imminent contest, The Times has been told The former Labour leader is understood to back Andy Burnham as Keir Starmer's successor if he is forced out of Number 10 in the wake of a mass revolt by Labour MP Miliband has previously told friends that he does not want the Labour leadership and is viewed as a potential "Kingmaker" for a Burnham premiership However the speed of the revolt by Labour MPs - more than 90 backbenchers, government aides and ministers have now gone public - has changed that assessment Two senior government sources said Miliband told cabinet colleagues he would be prepared to stand as the soft-left's candidate to stop Streeting from getting into Number 10 The claim was categorically denied by Miliband. A source close to the energy secretary said: "This is mischief making- it is categorically untrue that Ed told Cabinet colleagues that he was preparing to stand in case of a contest." thetimes.com/article/8bac9d…
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Tom Harwood
Tom Harwood@tomhfh·
Wes is waiting until after the King’s speech.
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Daniel Hannan
Daniel Hannan@DanielJHannan·
We are about to have our seventh prime minister in a decade. Has Britain become the new Italy? What is going on? The truth is that we are in denial about what we have done to our economy. We have become poorer through excessive taxation, spending, borrowing, regulation and money-printing. But we don’t like to admit it. A recent survey by @IEALondon found that we think of ourselves as a wealthy country, comparable to Singapore or Switzerland. In fact, Singaporeans and Swiss are roughly twice as rich as us, and we are about to be overtaken by Poland and Slovenia. How did it happen? There is no mystery. Under Tony Blair, the state was spending one pound in three; now it is closer to one in two. We say we want growth, but we don’t want it if it means cutting welfare, allowing more private healthcare, reducing taxes for entrepreneurs, liberalising employment law, raising the state pension age, sacking government employees, admitting skilled immigrants, ending the triple lock or allowing new houses near us. In other words, we don’t really want growth at all. Rather that acknowledging that contradiction, we blame our politicians. But as long as we make it politically impossible to cut spending (see the attached story as just the most recent example, one of a hundred I might have picked), we condemn ourselves to penury. It will carry on until we have leaders prepared to deliver growth, as opposed to intoning the word. And that will happen only when we accept that we were living beyond our means even before the lockdown, that we have become utterly bloated since and that, like an obese person who wants to become fit, we face some short-term pain. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Alex Wickham
Alex Wickham@alexwickham·
BREAKING: An ally of Wes Streeting - who came out publicly to call for Starmer to go - says Streeting has “blown it.” They say he has lost support today from MPs who might have backed him and that they now don’t think he has the numbers to get on the ballot.
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***NEW: State of play this evening*** Keir Starmer has defied all expectations, surviving the day despite some 90 Labour MPs calling for his head and four junior ministerial resignations. A minister tells Bloomberg they are astonished Starmer has managed to get through it without being forced to announce a timetable for his departure, saying the day went better for him than anyone can have imagined. Starmer’s stance at cabinet effectively dared his rivals to come out and publicly challenge him. As of this evening, no one has. Streeting is speaking with Starmer tomorrow morning, as per @steven_swinford, after the PM blanked him post-cabinet. The health secretary’s allies say he won’t say anything to distract from the king’s speech. Labour MPs and aides think Streeting is conducting what one calls a campaign of attrition against Starmer by drip-feeding his supporters’ calls for the PM to go. His camp deny he is orchestrating a plot. Streeting’s supporters say they are divided about his strategy. Some are disappointed he has not yet gone over the top, fearing he could be seen as losing his nerve and being labelled a bottle job. However, others caution that pressure has to grow organically on Starmer before Streeting is able to challenge him, otherwise the soft-left will accuse him of a cynical move to force a contest before Andy Burnham is ready. One Streeting supporter says they fear his chances of becoming PM are decreasing. They say they’re struggling to see how he has a path to No10 because if he runs the soft-left will put someone up against him who is likely to be favoured by members. They say they’re coming to terms with what they see as the likelihood that Burnham will succeed Starmer. However so far Burnham is also still silent. He’s in London meeting MPs and discussing his options. His camp insist he has a plan to make it to parliament, but so far they’ve stopped short of announcing it. Labour is in a state of paralysis tonight. David Lammy says no one has come forward and no one seems to have the numbers against Starmer. Most in Labour don’t expect that to hold. They still think the PM will be forced to announce a timetable in the coming days if Streeting, Burnham and the cabinet move. But as of right now, he clings on. Story with great colleagues @EllenAMilligan @Joe_Mayes >>> bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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CJ
CJ@UnderSneege·
The British government has somehow created a command economy it doesn’t have command of, for an economy that doesn’t exist.
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Political Polls
Political Polls@PpollingNumbers·
New - 2028 president poll 🔵 AOC 26% 🔵 Buttigieg 22% 🔵 Newsom 21% 🔵 Harris 13% 🔵 Beshear 4% 🔵 Booker 4% Atlasintel #A - 5/7
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Guido Fawkes
Guido Fawkes@GuidoFawkes·
JESS PHILLIPS - SAFEGUARDING MINISTER - RESIGNS
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Julia Lopez MP
Julia Lopez MP@JuliaLopezMP·
The Labour Party is about to have a popularity contest over who can spend more of your money, badly. It’s terrifying.
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Alex Wickham
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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Steely jacks
Steely jacks@dj6979·
@EuroBriefing And why would someone want a political union with a partner that cheated in this way?
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Wolfgang Munchau
Wolfgang Munchau@EuroBriefing·
The German media are reporting that €10bn of the recovery fund money earmarked for Spain ended up in the country’s pension system. This is how the good idea of a eurobond gets killed. Mistrust is not only present. It is justified. This example also goes to show that a eurobond can only work as a sovereign debt instrument of a unified state. If you really care about a eurobond to fortify a capital markets union and the euro as a global currency, you should talk about political union first. Don’t make this a technical discussion. eurointelligence.com
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Mike Bird
Mike Bird@Birdyword·
I don't think the problem of dissipating talent in politics is unique to the Labour Party, but you do have to marvel at the fact that they've got 403 MPs and find themselves in this situation
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot

Thoughts from a Labour MP: “We have to face up to the fact every single one of them is fucking useless. Andy’s strategy has been a disaster. Angela bottled it. Ed clearly a hiding to nothing. Wes AWOL. God knows what Catherine West is doing. Not quite sure how we ended up here.”

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Election Maps UK
Election Maps UK@ElectionMapsUK·
Wakefield Council Election Result #LE2026: RFM: 58 (+58) LDM: 2 (-1) CON: 1 (-2) GRN: 1 (+1) LAB: 1 (-56) Reform GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2022/23/24.
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Andrew Wilson
Andrew Wilson@AndrewWilsonLM·
@dj6979 @DanielJHannan Being a traditional conservative sort of fellow such innovations strike me as rather odd. Though I must confess I do find it strange that you call us “down under” but never refer to yourselves as “up over.”
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Anon Opin.
Anon Opin.@anon_opin·
Civil servant here. If Farage wins the next GE, he'll call us all back to the office 5 days a week. The CS will then be on the verge of collapse, as thousands of people will either retire immediately or quit, due to the removal of WFH. Cheap optics will meet reality.
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