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@annemcelvoy She looks good though

My purely Miranda Priestly take on this is: you cannot prevent Tory leaders from wearing those crossover bodycon dresses. I think they come with job via Fold/Libby - see Liz Truss passim.

@danbloom1 But first, coffee

Today’s socks

@Conservatives @KemiBadenoch A thing of beauty 🤌🏼

This is @KemiBadenoch’s chamber, you’re just sitting in it.

@KemiBadenoch Absolutely fantastic speech. They hated hearing those uncomfortable truths, which are entirely of their own making. Well done, Kemi 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Labour MPs are so arrogant. They want to lead our country but they can’t even lead a coup.

@EthanCroft98 @meganekenyon Clearly a deliberate, visible act of protest against Starmer's leadership. I would have a degree of respect for his actions, except he wants hard-left Corbyn economics @BarryGardiner

Barry Gardiner is sitting behind the prime minister in the Commons with a copy of The Fraud by Paul Holden, the excoriating book about Labour Together, Morgan McSweeney and Keir Starmer’s leadership of the Labour Party 👀

@KateEMcCann Because he knows everything she said is correct

John Healey, Defence Secretary, has his head in one hand as he listens to Kemi Badenoch in the Commons.

@MerriamWebster Who on earth is saying "deep-SEEDED" ?!

Is it 'deep-SEATED resentment' or 'deep-SEEDED resentment'? 'Deep-seated' means "firmly established," and is the term you want to use. We do recognize that some gardeners might have some 'deep-seeded' resentment on occasion.

@DPJHodges Could Starmer sack him today before he resigns tomorrow?

It’s on.

@Madz_Grant @andrew_lilico @timothy_stanley x.com/i/status/20545…

@andrew_lilico @timothy_stanley Ha! Tbf I think this one is more "Tim and me" than a lobby-wide thing

Is this like when people complain that MPs are all automatically tweeting out the same press release, @Madz_Grant @timothy_stanley ?

@NicDakin55 We're all hostages to your incompetent Government today

Off to the Palace to be the hostage while the King comes to Parliament to deliver his Speech. All part of Great British Pageantry

@SEANLWOODCOCK And yet you don't see the irony in how thoroughly unprofessional this tweet is

@hzeffman Is Starmer so bereft of ideas that his first move is to bring back Brown and Harman?!

Early days, but the Brown-Harman strategy hasn't landed particularly well so far. One normally loyal minister just said to me: "It’s a joke. There is no question to which bringing these two back is the answer."

@xcy1392577 @LukeTryl Not forgetting Slaithwaite, Meltham, and Holmfirth as well!

@xcy1392577 @LukeTryl Kirklees deeply rooted in textile and wool industry. Most of the towns have strong mill town heritage. Hudds world-famous for it's Worsted cloth. Spen Valley's Cleckheaton, Heckmondwike, and Gomersal were all wool mill towns. Dewsbury and Batley specialised in recycling wool.

Labour lost *every single seat* on Kirkless, where the party holds 4/5 MPs. We are seeing some of the most fragmented results in councils that combine a white working class vote with a large ethnic minority population - e.g. with Mill Towns like Kirkless/Burnley.

@MortyMark Pure rush of true schadenfreude 👍🏼

Scrolling through here and just laughing at the carnage that is unfolding for labour 😂

@Jon_of_Albion How old are you ?! 🙄

Vote cast

@akuareindorf Barn swallow? Looks similar to the birds we get nesting in the farm buildings near me

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@danbloom1 Honestly, what will it take for him to get the message that he is largely detested, and just go?

NEW: No10 is already drawing up plans for a big speech by Keir Starmer in days following the results Talk is of a moment for the PM to grab the mic about policy and overall direction of the govt, separate to the security speech that was dropped due to Golders Green But …

@MJAL27157258 @Tom_Slater_ And it gets worse

@Tom_Slater_ There isn't a single case of someone's calling Jews 'cockroaches'.

The anti-Semitism debate in Britain is blood-boiling… Normal people: it is despicable to call Jews ‘cockroaches’ and ‘baby-killers’ Pally lefties: what, you’re saying we can’t criticise Israel? Rinse and repeat

@FayeEsq @thetimes Behave! This is down to Labour's borrowing to pay for increased welfare spending, without a credible plan for growth

@thetimes Because of 14 years of Tory mismanagement. Brexit and the pandemic.

UK borrowing costs hit 18-year year on Starmer leadership challenge #Echobox=1777982117" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/business/econo…