Stuart Lynn

@SamCoatesSky Of course they didn’t it was a sour grapes narrative fabricated by Reform

Greater Manchester Police say they have no evidence of family voting after an extensive investigation, including speaking to Democracy Volunteers and seizing CCTV: We’ve concluded our investigation into alleged ‘family voting’ at last month’s Gorton and Denton by-election, finding no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting. Our investigation into alleged influencing of voters at a polling booth (under Section 62C Representation of the People Act 1983 (Ballot Secrecy Act 2023)) began after a criminal report from the Reform UK party following a public statement made by independent electoral observers at Democracy Volunteers. We have spoken to the four Democracy Volunteers observers present at polling stations on the day of the by-election (26 February) who have shared with us their eyewitness account. This includes some instances of more than one voter going into a booth at the same time, and instances of people looking over the shoulder of voters. The information they have provided to us estimates this may have happened on 32 occasions across 15 polling stations. The observers do not allege any verbal instruction or physical conduct that indicated one person was directing or coercing another regarding how to vote. This is a crucial part of the legislation to prove such an offence was committed. Our investigation team, led by an experienced senior investigating officer, spoke to all four volunteers from Democracy Volunteers as part of our enquiries – obtaining a copy of their observations. We also spoke to the Presiding Officers at 15 stations as well as the Acting Returning Officer, none of whom received any reports other than from Democracy Volunteers. We have received no further criminal reports. For us to investigate allegations, we require an understanding of who the potential suspects may be, and evidence that may corroborate eyewitness accounts. For an investigation to meet the criminal threshold for prosecution, we require admissible evidence of intent or action aimed at influencing the vote. We have asked Democracy Volunteers for descriptions of those alleged to be involved, and timings on when these are believed to have occurred. These details were not documented by observers or the complainant, and we have not been provided with any identities or descriptions to pursue. The absence of this information means there is no remaining reasonable line of enquiry. This also includes limitations with CCTV as an absence of descriptions, and votes not being time-stamped, meaning we are not able to identify individuals from footage. We have approached all 45 polling stations in the Gorton and Denton constituency to ask for CCTV from the day. Forty-one of those polling stations told us they did not have CCTV activated in the building as it would have compromised the secrecy of the vote during polling day, in line with advice given. We have seized and viewed CCTV from three of the remaining four polling stations. These are three polling station that Democracy Volunteers visited. We have spoken to the Presiding Officer from each one. However, these stations do not show any evidence of anyone directing or coercing another regarding how to vote – the crucial part of the legislation to prove such an offence was committed. There is no evidence to suggest any intent to influence or refrain a person from voting as stated in the Ballot Secrecy Act 2023. We have been liaising with the Electoral Commission, who we have shared our findings with. We have also shared our findings with the Returning Officer. We have updated the complainant about the work of our investigation and the conclusion we have reached.

@keelyhodgkinson Impressive leg speed … a natural 400m athlete … huge congrats on the outstanding gold medal 👏👏👏

Me running 23.4 through 200m has me gagggeedd lmao, sometimes I surprise myself!!!??!!😂😂

The golden girls 👑 Georgia Hunter Bell, Molly Caudery and Keely Hodgkinson have all won gold medals in Poland this evening 🥰 #WorldIndoorChamps

The media has convinced you that Keir Starmer is the worst Prime Minister in history. They're lying to you.

@bodman_mike It’s so obvious they’ve stopped trying to defend it !!

Really is getting embarrassing and quite frightening that a public owned media outlet is blatantly attacking the government on a daily basis, nothing about Reforms tax avoidance, Farage’s TikTok posts, Patel’s blocking of Andrew’s investigation or the Covid findings, shameful !!

@dave43law Once upon a time the independent was a decent newspaper … before it followed the rest down the slippery slope of political agendas, clickbait headlines, and made up stories.

How Starmer still hopes to save his premiership ahead of make-or-break elections - one last reshuffle to reset his government which could see Wes Streeting and Rachel Reeves out with Angela Rayner, Louise Haigh and Lucy Powell coming back in independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

@BBCNews Another weekend, another hit piece on @10DowningStreet by @bbclaurak … anyone else find it tedious and a waste of licence payers money?

As Starmer faces war overseas, his party can't find peace at home bbc.in/4rLDX00

@elonmusk Grog does ‘not’ speak the truth … it’s technology and it speaks what it has been told to say !!

Only Grok speaks the truth. Only truthful AI is safe. Only truth understands the universe.

I was on the ground in our British base in Cyprus yesterday. I saw how our British forces are working round the clock, in the face of repeated air raid sirens, to protect British lives and British interests. (1/2)

🌬️ In February, wind was GB's top electricity source at 36.3%. Gas wasn't far behind at 29.4%. A total of 25 TWh ran securely through the network, enough for 25 billion washing machine cycles. 🏠 We used 66% of our gas in homes and businesses. See more 👉 bit.ly/407zSZN

This is genuinely extraordinary: x.com/MicloutT/statu… Speaking is General Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO's former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe. He says that the UK "should not, in any way, shape or form be involved with the Americans because they are being led by a couple of gung-ho nutters like Trump and Hegseth without a proper strategy and without serious thought about what the end state for this war is." He goes on: "Yet again we have an American president who has gone to war, a war of choice, a war of hubris frankly, without ANY [the emphasis is his] clear idea of how the war ends and without any clear strategy." He predicts that "this thing is going to go south very, very quickly." He highlights in particular just how foolish it was to kill Ayatollah Khamenei: "The idea of assassinating the Ayatollah Khamenei who was not just Iran's head of state but he was the religious symbol for Shiites worldwide. Assassinating him during the month of Ramadan is about as subtle as murdering the Pope on the steps of St Peter's in Holy Week. It will inflame the Shiite world and what you're doing by doing that is probably pushing large numbers of Iranians who might have been reconcilable, who might have thought about rising up, back into the fold of the irreconcilable."

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-em…

Murton (Durham) Council By-Election Result: 🌹 LAB: 50.6% (+17.6) ➡️ RFM: 39.6% (-4.5) 🌍 GRN: 4.8% (New) 🌳 CON: 3.1% (-2.0) 🔶 LDM: 1.9% (-2.3) No Ind (-13.6) as previous. Labour GAIN from Reform. Changes w/ 2025.

We are continuing to take action to protect lives. We are strengthening our defensive operations in the Middle East by sending four additional Typhoon jets to join our squadron in Qatar, and Wildcat Helicopters with anti-drone capabilities are arriving in Cyprus tomorrow. Protecting lives and delivering in the national interest.

@lewis_goodall You can’t believe anything you read in the Telegraph !!

Labour sources furious with NSC leak: "would once have been a national scandal."

@Loriagne2 The BBC will of course deny but it would seem hard to argue against these data from Grok 👇

BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End 'Wall to Wall' Farage Coverage – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/bbc…

@LukeDonald Congrats Luke 👏

Truly a privilege to go again. With Adare Manor hosting and the 100th Anniversary of the Ryder Cup, it is going to be a very special week Let’s go! 🇪🇺🇮🇪

@BethRigby Starmer takes the high ground Badenoch goes even lower .. almost reaching the bottom of the barrel !

Well, with country in a state of high anxiety over the war in Iran, Badenoch chooses to go on the attack. She piles into Starmer asking why UK is not carrying out defensive bond raids on Iran, pivots to defence spending and calls him 'pathetic and weak'. Starmer is absolutely excoriating in return as he takes the high ground: "I spent the week protecting British lives and our national interests. Moments like this define a leader of the opposition. They can either step up, act in the national interest and show that they're fit to be Prime Minister, or they can expose their utter irrelevance. She has chosen the second."

@SkyNews Why does @KemiBadenoch and @Nigel_Farage so desperately want to take the UK into a war that we didn’t start, right now has no end, and the people of the UK don’t support? This is a very serious time for the UK, not simply an opportunity for posturing and points scoring !

"The whole country is worried about the potential for escalation." Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says he wasn't prepared to join the war in Iran unless there was a lawful basis. trib.al/55jVjd9 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

@clashreport I like this guy !!

BREAKING: Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez to Trump: We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values and interests, simply because of the fear of reprisals from some. We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional and I would also say moral strength of our country.