"There's nothing wrong with friends saying 'are there any jobs around?'"
Labour peer Baroness Hodge responds to reports that Downing Street considered giving a diplomatic role to the prime minister's then-director of communications Matthew Doyle.
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Deep in the Government’s new integrated transport strategy is a truth at odds with the rhetoric: driving a car has gotten cheaper in real terms, and public transport has gotten more expensive.
The Government is also clear that this will mean more traffic and more congestion.
The Government has cut five of its proposed new towns but continues to plan for the remaining seven.
The cut ones are Adlington (Cheshire), Heyford Park (Oxford satellite), Marlcombe (near Exeter), Plymouth (Devon) and Wychavon Town (Worcestershire).
The retained ones are
This Elections Bill is progress.
But we cannot restore trust in politics while crypto donations - direct or indirect - remain legal. If we are serious about taking the dark money out of British politics, we must bolt that door.
Regulators like the Electoral Commission & National Crime Agency are very clear. As it stands today, crypto donations are un-policeable. That leaves us open to bad actors and bad nations.
I’m optimistic ministers will act after the Ryecroft Review.
But we’re readying amendments to help make the case.
The selections for Labour candidates needs to be more democratic and we should end NEC impositions of candidates. Local Party members should select their candidates for every election.
Somewhat of a random fact: the last time Denmark sold an island to the US was in 1917. That island was Little Saint James, more commonly known today as “Epstein Island.”
By long a long way this should be the most important story of the day & possibly of the year. A minister lied to the house to obscure the fact that the Labour go’t deliberately collapsed a treason trial in order not to offend China, which had been caught red-handed spying on us.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Labour secretly sabotaged the trial of two alleged spies after refusing to brand China an “enemy”, The Telegraph can disclose.
Read the full story 👇
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…
* Keir Starmer compares Andy Burnham to Liz Truss, suggesting that he would 'inflict harm' on working people
* The prime minister says that Donald Trump's claim that Sadiq Khan is leading London into Sharia law is 'ridiculous' and 'nonsense'
* Says 'categorically' that he will
🚨Latest Opinium @ObserverUK polling 🚨
Over half the public (53%) now want Keir Starmer to resign as PM.
This is higher than the 45% who wanted Rishi Sunak to quit in April 2024.
@SolHughesWriter@patrickkmaguire He did also privatise personally more hospitals than any Tory health minister before him when in that role, strange he turned on the policy’s he personally sought to implement afterwards.
Remember when the Tories changed PM five times without a General Election? Did you say this then? Of course not you utter hypocrite. Stop treating the British public with contempt.
What happens if Keir Starmer goes? I believe our constitution has evolved to the point where a general election should be called.
Read more here: letters.jacobreesmogg.com/p/a-new-prime-…
So govt finally coughs it up, the whole "it'll cost £100 billion to nationalise the water industry" is totally bogus, complete and utter made up nonsense.
As we always knew, no matter what ministers claimed, @Defra today has finally published their methodology confirming that their calculation does indeed use @Ofwat's factious, made up, notional value for the water industry, their regulatory capital value, you know, the one that claims that @thameswater is worth a staggering £21,008,425,000. What a complete and utter shambles.
No doubt ministers will be keen to apologies for wilfully misleading the public.
“I'm not going to focus on ideology."
It would cost £100bn to nationalise water companies and the government would have to take that money from the NHS and education, Environment Secretary Steve Reed tells @krishgm
🖊️ We’ve signed a new agreement with the BBC – securing its biggest West Midlands expansion in over a decade.
📺 TV production spend will almost double from £24m to £40m a year by 2027.
🙌 A huge boost for local creatives, jobs and our regional economy.
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