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‘Only 4% of Labour voters and 5% of the wider electorate in Makerfield backed Starmer in such a contest.’
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Makerfield voters want Burnham over Starmer in Number 10, poll finds labourlist.org/2026/06/burnh…
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It's illegal to say I support Palestine Action A thoughtcrime that can lead to your arrest and imprisonment for up to 14 years.
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Hang on. People have been telling me all day that the only property for sale was 'behind the Green Line'/'within Israel's 1967 borders'. Are you saying that isn't true?
Homes in illegal Israeli settlements promoted at London property show trib.al/7zZD1uK
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Sky News has verified 152 of those killed when a US missile struck a primary school in Minab on the first day of the war. Using a range of information sources, the faces of all the 120 students - aged 6 to 13 - and 26 teachers have been identified ⬇️
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This is absolutely insane. The suffragettes used far more extreme tactics than Palestine Action. They planted bombs, burned down private homes and smashed up art galleries. They killed five people! Her outrageous judgement is based on absurd historical ignorance.
The Lady Chief Justice: Palestine Action was not a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, but used violence to destroy property The suffragettes burned down country houses & train stations, bombed churches & sent letter bombs to politicians.
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Since when was AI Carns the Labour leadership "frontrunner"?
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A move in the right direction - but we need Labour to be more ambitious and reinstate the planned route of HS2 in full.
Andy Burnham: I’ll resurrect HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester trib.al/75pxqXU
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The resignations of John Healey and Al Carns are a cynical attempt to make higher military spending the defining priority of Britain’s next government — whatever the cost to welfare, public services and living standards. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/06/bui…
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A decade-long project to bring water and energy into public control will lie at the heart of Andy Burnham’s agenda should he become prime minister, according to sources close to the Greater Manchester mayor. Exc from @kiranstacey theguardian.com/politics/202…
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One thing is clear from this poll and our focus groups were it not for Burnham’s personal vote this race wouldn’t even be close. Starmer’s approval is -48 in the seat, Burnham’s is 7, an extraordinary gap and that Burnham is positive at all in this anti politics era is something
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New: Morgan McSweeney is back advising the Prime Minister – four months after he resigned over his role in the Mandelson scandal. The former No 10 chief of staff is advising Sir Keir Starmer in his moment of greatest peril, multiple government and Whitehall sources told The i Paper. McSweeney is helping the Prime Minister and has “never really gone away”, one minister said. “He has been on the end of the phone 24/7,” one source said. “He has been wargaming a leadership contest and believes Keir still has a chance if there are three or more [challengers] in the contest. He has been working out how the votes could go. It’s mad.” Exclusive with Richard Vaughn
Morgan McSweeney is back advising the Prime Minister – four months after he resigned over his role in the Mandelson scandal 🔴 Exclusive from @cazjwheeler & Richard Vaughan Read more: inews.co.uk/news/politics/mo…
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RT @siennamarla: Andrew Marr reports that Peter Kyle has asked whether he'd be able to stay in post while supporting another leadership can…
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"He is the Prime Minister that is fit FOR THE MOMENT" Straight out of The Thick of It!
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The senior defence source doesn’t explain where the huge amount of additional spending they seek will come from.. or why a country that cannot build a high speed railway should be top of the NATO spenders on defence..an area where much money has been spent wastefully in the past
💥A senior military source tells @thetimes that Starmer's defence funding offer will “undermine our ability to lead in any alliance from Nato to the JEF [Joint Expeditionary Force]”. The source said of the chaos over defence spending: “It does considerable damage. We are now one of the lowest defence spenders in Nato, a 180 [degree-turn] from the historic trend to the UK being the highest per capita European defence spender. The influence we once had with nations looking to us as the example is over.” thetimes.com/uk/defence/arti…
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"Feargal Sharkey brands '£100billion' cost of nationalising water 'nonsense'." And that is because it is nonsense, pure unadulterated, made up nonsense. mirror.co.uk/news/feargal-sh…
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Bills are going up - so are bank profits. Increasing the bank surcharge tax would pay for a cut to energy bills up to £559 a year. It's time to redistribute wealth.
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RT @unisontheunion: 📢🏛️ "Care workers look after our loved ones every day. Taking care of carers means taking care of everyone." Outside N…
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Crucial reporting from Anoosh If you want to understand the breakdown of Britain’s political status quo, look at housing
Inside the HMO crisis The towns and villages of Wigan and Makerfield are the epicentre of Serco Britain, with multiple HMO hotspots. Wigan had some of the first asylum hotels, and now hundreds of HMOs. And the issue is coming up "all the time" for the Labour Party on the campaign trail, Anoosh Chakelian has been told Don't miss her cover story for this week's @NewStatesman newstatesman.com/cover-story…
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“What you’re seeing is a race based pogrom, we are seeing men going door to door asking to 'get the foreigners out' based exclusively on the colour of their skin.” SDLP leader Claire Hannah criticises the unrest taking place in Belfast. #Newsnight
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.@Taj_Ali1 "I spoke to a Muslim woman last night who lives in Belfast who said that she knows of a dozen families, mostly Muslim, whose homes had been targeted.. its very important to make clear that this is planned violence, targeted violence against ethnic minority communities"
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