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Temperatures at Heathrow have recently reached 33.5°C, provisionally beating the all-time May record

Reform UK wants to abolish income tax on overtime. It sounds like a tax cut for hard work. Actually a tax cut for the word “overtime”. So little GDP impact & huge cost - we reckon £14bn not Reform's £5bn If you want to spent £5bn on tax cuts, we have ten better ways: 🧵

🚨 NEW: It has been revealed that Orla Minihane, Restore Britain’s spokeswoman for the Safety of Women and Children, privately messaged Robert Jenrick in February asking for his help to become an MP. She sent the final message just days before defecting:

🚨Restore’s spokeswoman for the Safety of Women and Children privately messaged Robert Jenrick in February asking for his help to become an MP and praising his economic speech. She sent the final message just days before defecting. The DMs between Jenrick and Orla Minihane:

🚔 “There was a lady under the train and she was still alive. So we’ve got to get on to that and deal with it.” That was the mindset of four South Yorkshire Police firearms officers faced with a scene most people would never forget. A busy platform at Doncaster Station. Commuters in shock. A woman trapped underneath a train with catastrophic injuries. PC Christopher Bell, PC Ben Hawley, PC Carl Holden and PC Tanveer Akhtar didn’t stand back and wait. They climbed down onto the tracks with their first aid kits and crawled underneath the train. “One foot clearance above our heads.” Just picture that for a moment. Darkness. Metal. Noise. Confusion. And four officers trying to keep somebody alive underneath a train carriage. PC Bell recalled: “I had to take my stab vest off to get under the train.” PC Hawley said: “We ran past ambulance and fire services on the platform. I just shouted: ‘This line off? Are we safe to get down?’” Then came the moment they discovered the woman was still conscious. “It was surprising that she was conscious and talking. She could tell us her name, but was massively in shock.” The officers applied tourniquets to her legs, treated serious head injuries, and manoeuvred her inch by inch underneath the carriage so they could support her head and keep her alive. And this is something a lot of people outside policing probably don’t realise… Firearms officers receive advanced trauma and first aid training because they may have to deal with catastrophic injuries in some of the most dangerous situations imaginable. That training mattered here. The ability to stay calm. The ability to use tourniquets correctly. The ability to assess trauma injuries under immense pressure. The ability to work together in an environment where one wrong move could have had devastating consequences. Later, NHS surgeons contacted police to say that without the officers’ intervention, the woman’s life “would have been lost.” That is extraordinary policing. Not for applause. Not for recognition. Just courage, professionalism, teamwork, and four officers refusing to give up on another human being. For anyone thinking about police recruitment or wanting to join the police… This is the reality of the job at its very best. Highly trained officers making life-or-death decisions in seconds and using those skills to save somebody’s daughter, friend, partner or mum. Completely deserved recipients of the South Yorkshire Police Federation Bravery Awards. 👏 Talk soon, Brendan