Introduce Scandi-style conscription to save Britain’s youth ✍️👇
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Henry Lloyd
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Henry Lloyd
@henryjlloyd
Data & investigations writer https://t.co/pk2MkebArh + @lborouniversity alum Send tips to henry.j.lloyd at https://t.co/A2nFDcViTP
London/Suffolk Katılım Mayıs 2017
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One solution that no one seems to be talking about:
The return of compulsory national service for young brits, and how it would begin to solve the impending crisis of economic inactivity in 20-somethings.
Read me below 👇
Rishi Sunak@RishiSunak
Unemployment is now 5% and only half of under-25s are in paid employment. Every Labour leadership contender should have a coherent answer to how we can reverse these trends and avoid creating a lost generation of young people. Today's @thetimes column👇 thetimes.com/comment/column…
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Ninety minutes apart, and a partial word-for-word copy, @vonderleyen's comms lead was clearly lacking in any original inspiration this morning when crafting the below
Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen
I welcome the progress towards an agreement between the US and Iran. We need a deal that truly de-escalates the conflict, reopens the Strait of Hormuz and guarantees toll free full freedom of navigation. Iran must not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon. It must also end its destabilising actions in the region, directly or through proxies, as well as its unjustified and repeated attacks on its neighbours. Europe will continue working with international partners to seize this moment for a lasting diplomatic solution. And to contain the spillover of this conflict, notably on supply chains and energy prices.
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With the advent of a heatwave in London and the bank holiday, I’ve escaped to Suffolk with my long-overdue copy of Kingmaker, and to the sound of songbirds
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Biggest question of the day: What harmless thing has Edwina Currie left in Baroness Foster's pigeonhole?
Edwina Currie@Edwina_Currie
@jfoster2019 Hi Jackie take a look in your Lords letterbox. Something nice (harmless!) waiting for you there xx
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@jessalinecaine Will be fascinating to see how CCHQ move on this, optics not good for them
Assume it will be a largely Tory-run administration with a Green figurehead and a Lib Dem Cabinet member or two
Will be a proper test of cross party compromise as to whether they can all get on properly
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@henryjlloyd This is fair on the arithmetic, but Reform still won the highest vote share and the most seats.
The Conservatives then chose to help install a Green-led alternative
Procedurally possible AND politically groteqsue
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Worcestershire voted for Reform to run the council.
Like it or not, that was the MANDATE.
As a Conservative, I cannot imagine jumping into bed with the Greens just to block them
This is exactly why people are done with the Tory Party
I am disgusted with their conduct
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Henry Lloyd retweetledi
Here lies Starmer’s problem: why not have sacked Streeting before he resigned? Ministerial position was untenable. Resignation was likely.
Reads as indecision, a hallmark of Starmer’s premiership
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@kazzie246 @jessalinecaine The flaws in FPTP are being seen out across the country in the multipolar system we now find ourselves in
Part of the reason why the government have been so unpopular, governing a massive majority while only carrying 33.7% of the vote at the last GE
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@henryjlloyd @jessalinecaine So is that the same analogy of the number of seats the lib dems got compared to the amount of votes? In comparison to Reform in the GE?
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The only way this would be remotely accurate would be if you began the bar chart all the way down there and spread it out beyond reasonable proportions.
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Another day, another dodgy bar chat, this time from Reform
How it looks vs how it should look
Reform UK@reformparty_uk
The first poll after the local elections puts us on a record lead with YouGov. ✅
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Miatta Fahnbulleh resigns as a government junior minister,
'we have not acted with the vision, pace and ambition that our mandate for change demands of us.'
Miatta Fahnbulleh@Miatsf
This morning I sent my letter of resignation to the Prime Minister. I urge the Prime Minister to do the right thing for the country and the Party and set a timetable for an orderly transition.
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Gordon Brown appointed as the PM’s Special Envoy for Global Finance
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