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Rolls-Royce securing the UK’s Small Modular Reactor contract is one of the few genuinely strategic moves this country has made in years. We’re talking about homegrown nuclear capability, thousands of skilled jobs, and long term energy security, not just another short term fix. SMRs can be built faster and cheaper than traditional plants and crucially they’re scalable. The UK is finally backing its own industry instead of outsourcing everything abroad. Personally would like us to go much heavier on nuclear power but this is an important move, which will create around 8'000 jobs.

Sir Keir Starmer has set up a new cabinet committee to deal with the fallout for Iran - it's called the Middle East Response Committee The PM is chairing the first meeting of it today. Antonia Romeo, the cabinet secretary, will host regular meetings with officials Why does it matter? Because it underlines the government's central assumption that the Iran war will go long, both in terms of the conflict and the consequences The cost of living fallout - on petrol prices, holidays, energy bills, prices in shops - is already beginning. Experts suggest a cost-of-living crisis in the Autumn/ Winter is already 'baked in' because of the existing disruption caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz The new committee will 'bring together the international and domestic response' and is in addition to the regular COBR meetings

LOVIN' IT! President Trump receives the first ever DoorDash delivery to the Oval Office highlighting No Tax on Tips, which helps millions keep the money they earn. 🍔🇺🇸

The European countries should be on their fucking knees kissing Trump’s ass for getting the Strait of Hormuz reopened. Without the US, those pathetic fucks wouldn’t have shit.

⚠️Bournemouth asylum hotel dweller, Thabani Maposa, 45, who assaulted a 14YO girl and offered her cocaine, whisky & weed at a holiday park in Weymouth… has failed to turn up to court. A warrant has been issued for his arrest. Who could have possibly foreseen this?

“There is a corrosive complacency today in Britain’s political leadership. Lip service is paid to the risks, the threats, the bright red signals of danger.” An extraordinary intervention from Lord George Robertson, former Labour Defence Secretary, former Secretary General of NATO and co-author of the current Strategic Defence Review. His criticism here of Keir Starmer’s failure to expedite the increase in defence spending to match the current threats we face says much about our inability to address the gaps in our capability. Lord Robertson points towards the inability of Rachel Reeves and the Treasury to make funding available as they prevent the Defence Investment Plan from being signed off in favour of an ever-increasing welfare budget. Keir Starmer has no answers on defence.