@SteveReedMP This isn't going away. If he genuinely cared about the economic damage, he would set out a timetable for his resignation, rather than drag this out.
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This is not a game. This instability has consequences for people’s lives. The people who will be hurt most will be those that elected us less than two years ago. We must unite behind the Prime Minister.
Paul Johnson@PJTheEconomist
Starmer and Reeves are not kidding when they say this political uncertainty causes economic damage. The only “reset” being achieved at the moment is higher borrowing costs. Result? We’re all worse off. So deeply depressing.
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81 MPs is not a magic threshold that forces a ballot, unless all the MPs are backing one candidate.
However, when the number gets over 80, a couple of important things change. Here’s what will happen:
1. Leadership contenders will be able to say to the Prime Minister that the numbers exist to force a contest.
This is especially important for contenders who don’t want to feel like they have fired the starting gun.
Catherine West fired the starting gun, and after 80* MPs say Starmer must go, leadership hopefuls could step into the fray absolved of casting the first stone.
2. Starmer loses his Commons majority. By coincidence the number of MPs it takes to nominate a leadership challenger (81) is almost aligned with the number to kill the government’s majority (83).
This is constitutionally significant as the Prime Minister is only Prime Minister if he carries the confidence of Parliament as a whole. 83 Labour MPs saying they don’t have confidence in him is enough to switch the view of the House.
That, again, is an additional argument for a challenger to say they were pushed into the position of declaring their candidacy.
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@tomhfh Tom, what's the count of MPs up to now ..?
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Two days before the Kings Speech setting out the Govt’s future legislative programme is not the time for this sort of destabilisation Only our opponents want to see it so let’s have some disciple & support the elected leader
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It is 676 days since the 2024 General Election. And it’s over for Keir Starmer after a Prime Ministership defined by its fundamental lack of purpose - and instead by sleaze, hypocrisy and misgovernment.
Will we now see Labour MPs repeating their demands for a General Election?
Sophie Huskisson@soph_husk
NEW: Mood in No10 described as "sombre and emotional" after the PM suffered two resignations in the junior ranks of government Insiders say the atmosphere in Downing Street is "pretty dire" - and that momentum currently feels like it's against Mr Starmer They added that there was “too much” pressure on this morning’s speech, adding: “There were so many people who were saying that this speech is going to show a big change. There was too much pressure on it and we should have focused on the record in government.” More here: mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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@PhilipProudfoot When you get hammered in an election you don't ask what were they thinking, you ask what were we doing...
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@BethRigby He does seem to take responsibility an awful lot, but with no consequences for himself and no change in behaviour going forward.
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A senior Labour figure texts about PM: “He doesn’t get it. He takes responsibility like my kids take responsibility for leaving towels on the floor of the bathroom, they say sorry then do the same thing the next day”
Beth Rigby@BethRigby
PM interview. How was Starmer? Pretty resolute and unbending - When asked if 1/ He was Labour's problem, 2/ Is taking responsibility resigning, 3/Is he handing the country to Reform by staying as PM, he had one consistent answer: "I am not going to walk away and plunge the country into chaos". This I read as a clear, and rather defiant message, to those who are privately saying he has to go, basically he's saying come and try it and then see what comes next. There was a bloody minded steeliness in him today - And as for succession. He also clear he is NOT setting out any timetable to stand down: I will fight the next general election. - How did he seem? Clearly wanted to show he was putting up fight & listening to activists. He told them it was tough and essentially said he had to better. But in tone during the interview, he also seemed quite tense and was batting away the Qs with his message to MPs and the party, with little acknowledgement of the predicament he's in. I imagine some MPs will be frustrated and think he doesn't get it - he's going to be doing more in coming days to convince them he does
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@Helen_Whately £65k a year doesn't give take home pay of £50k PA. It's much less than that.
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Thousands of households claim £50,000+ in benefits every year.
You have to earn £65k for that income through work.
It’s not fair and we can’t afford it.
The next step in my plan to grip welfare and get Britain working 👇
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@DPJHodges A lot of people would be intimidated seeing a group of youths in hoodies in a dark, quiet alley for example.
You can't outlaw common behaviour because it makes people uncomfortable, without going down a very authoritarian path.
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One thing on the pro-Palestine marches. If you accept they directly intimidate the Jewish community (which they do) then you must also acknowledge the Unite the Kingdom rallies have precisely the same effect on Muslim and other minority communities. We ban both, or neither.
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@v_j_freeman I thought it was antisemitic to conflate Israel with British Jews, but that seems to be what you're doing in your post?
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I may be wrong but I think Greens choosing this stunt about what is also an obvious stunt to all but committed pro Palestine activists in the immediate wake a murderous terrorist attack on British Jews will look *at the very least* extremely distasteful to some potential voters
The Green Party@TheGreenParty
The UK government must ACT NOW and: • Condemn the Israeli Navy’s illegal actions against the Flotilla • Demand the safety and release of all British Citizens involved in this mission • Stop all arms exports to Israel immediately • Do everything in its power to end this ongoing genocide
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@Peston @NTForwardFocus A pretty callous comment, also ignores the fact the ones he sacked were very senior.
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He also said, when asked by Cathy Newman whether it was a problem that he had sacked so many of his top advisers and senior civil servants, “there are hundreds of thousands of civil servants.”
Robert Peston@Peston
There was one very funny moment (for me at least) in the PM’s interview with @cathynewman. He said of his cabinet ministers: “I’ve spoken to very many of them in recent weeks.”
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BREAKING
Sir Keir Starmer appears to confirm that Labour MPs will be whipped to oppose the motion to refer him to a parliamentary sleaze inquiry
He told Labour MPs that the vote is 'pure politics and we need to stand against it'
“I have responsibility for being totally transparent with you, with Parliament and the British public. I take that very seriously as well.
"But this is not about a lack of transparency. This is a political stunt by our opponents who want to bring us down, obscure our message, stop us getting on with our work. And the timing tells you everything nine days before local elections.”
“Tomorrow is pure politics and we need to stand together against it.”
He added: “It’s important to see the bigger picture here. They want to stop this Labour Government. And we know why.
“Because we are the first government for generations to take key parts of the public realm back into public ownership. They don’t like that, but we’re doing it.
“The first government for generations to give rights and power to workers, to renters, to the less fortunate.
“The first government for generations prepared to stand against wealth interests, to raise money and put that into public services and fighting child poverty. They don’t like it, they said they’d reverse it.
“We have a mandate to do all of those things. And they are not going to stop us.”
He concluded: “When we stick together and fight together we are so much stronger.”
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@SophyRidgeSky Doesn't that imply the answer is yes? If it was no, then the information was all in the public domain anyway, so no conflict in stating that.
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Was there anything in the Mandelson vetting that wasn't in public domain?
Robbins: "I don't think I can open that box. The system depends on candidates for vetting knowing the information they share is confidential"
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@BethRigby The bit everyone knows and no-one's saying out loud is that all the traits that Starmer claims to be outraged by were actually seen as qualifications to appoint Mandelson in the first place.
Even now he's lying about that, because it shows he's no better than his predecessors.
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WATCH: This was a PM that promised to be different, but being forced to the Commons to explain away the Mandelson vetting scandal has thrown his government into crisis and raised real red flags over his own judgement.
This scandal has hollowed out his No 10, set his government against Whitehall and left his already disillusioned MPs in quiet despair.
There may not be a smoking gun today or appetite to move against him from MPs so close to critical elections, but it leaves an already embattled PM weaker still
Film by @IzzyLosseff @JoshGafson1
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Israel has already selected the next war the US will fight for them.
Ofer Binshtok - Kafir - עופר בינשטוק@Ofer_binshtok
Turkey poses an existential danger to Europe.
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@H00d0r @DPJHodges You're moving the goalposts. The point is the journalist queried it with no.10 at the time the article was written in September and they will also be aware of what's reported in the news. If they ignored it, that's incompetent or shows they didn't care. The buck stops at the top.
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@max_on_x @DPJHodges Where does it state that the PM or any minister was aware that had happened?
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As I said. The claim No.10 did not know until Tuesday was a straight up lie.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: The Independent's Political Editor, David Maddox, has published messages showing No 10 was told last September that Peter Mandelson may have failed security vetting
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@H00d0r @DPJHodges "Sources have told The Independent that MI6 failed to clear the Labour peer largely because of concerns over his business links to China."
It was already established by the sources that he had failed the vetting. Literally 2nd paragraph of the article.
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@max_on_x @DPJHodges Incorrect. The serious concerns from the article in September were before we knew that vetting had failed.
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@H00d0r @DPJHodges The 'serious concerns' were about the pm allegedly pushing through the appointment after the vetting had been failed.
The fact of the vetting having been failed wasn't in question.
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@max_on_x @DPJHodges The words "serious concerns" is doing a lot of heavy lifting
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