Mental health can affect any one of us and asking for help is often the hardest part. No one should have to wait for support when they need it most. This is why I’m working with @telegraph to improve access to counselling. Article 👇#NoTimeToWait telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02…

Fascinating thread one 1) how mainstream media orgs end up picking up fake news pumped out on social media 2) highlighting the need for same orgs to fact check social media stories prior to publication 👇

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You can vote and decide the government but you can’t decide when to look at an app on your phone, what a time to be alive.

The problem with attracting people to stand as MPs who have principles and integrity is that they become MPs with principles and integrity.

The World Cup starts tonight! ⚽️ But by the end of the first match, we’ll be one man down. Someone dies by suicide in our country every 90 minutes. Three-quarters of these are men. I spoke with Luke the co-founder of @andysmanclubuk about male suicide, mental health and the help that is out there. 👇 Andy's Man Club is an incredible organisation that helps men across Britain open up, talk about what is going on in their lives, and help one another. I have been to sessions in my constituency and was overwhelmed by the support they can offer men dealing with all sorts of problems in their lives - small or large. In each session, a football is passed around the group to share thoughts, challenges, and successes. Simple, but effective and liberating! As a government, we take mental heath - and men's mental health - seriously. We published England’s first Men's Health Strategy last year, which committed further funding for suicide prevention programmes, recognising that suicide is one of the biggest killer of men under 50. We are investing £3.6 million in community based suicide prevention projects - and supporting the @premierleague Together Against Suicide initiative with @samaritans. And this is a challenge for all of us, not just government. As a society we can do more to encourage men to open up, get the weight off their shoulders. That is a key part of our Men and Boys work led by @DavidLammy - amplifying the issues, assuring folk there is help out there. Enjoy the football, look out for one another, and know there is support out there!

I’m not sure why this is framed as anti Jewish when it would surely impact those of the Muslim faith too

Seems more likely he was arguing for cuts in net zero… Or is HMT saying that’s untouchable but schools / hospitals were on the table?

You could fire this one out pretty much weekly now…

After a lot of favourable media briefings the Home Secretary appears almost entirely absent from recent events. Hard to see how this continue given the level of dissident and debate around policing.

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We’re in a world where the Leader of the Labour Party is openly briefing against the Labour by-election candidate, and Labour mayor of Great Manchester.

Labour Growth Group had some truly excellent people who were ready, early on, to be quite radical. In the early days of LFG, they were the first political group to come on side and endorse the LFG Bill. Chris Curtis and Mark McVitie in particular stuck their necks out for what they believed in. They took a chance on LFG - a new group starting from nowhere, when the easier path would be to do nothing. That takes guts and I hope they have big plans for the future - because very clearly, there is a lot to do.

This is very dishonest, I’m surprised at Reform. This isn’t doing politics differently, it’s what I’d expect from the Labour Party.

Kemi is right to call for a less divisive tone of language around this case. There are also serious questions to answer - and it’s the case that if we’re to maintain policing by consent those questions must be seen to be answered.

Burnham is now in the Theresa May trap. If Burnham becomes PM he either blows on and ends Rishi style with a monumental defeat, spending his time as PM managing unmanageable backbenchers. OR u turns like May did and the electorate then see you as a greedy opportunist.

Latest episode out now 🔊 @GullisJonathan talks about the reality on the ground in Makerfield after a recent visit and we ask ‘is Wes Streeting now yesterdays man?’

This is appalling. Imagine being treated this way after being stabbed and informing the police of that as they arrest you, drag you and handcuff you. Shocking.