Will Farage get a job with Trump? Why can’t the water companies go bankrupt?

🎙️ Podcast: Will Dunn, Hannah Barnes & Freddie Hayward
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NEW: I can reveal Labour’s investigation into suspended MP Diane Abbott’s racism comments finished 5 months ago

A source says she was given a ‘formal warning’ in Dec ‘23

Ms Abbott was required to do an online ‘anti semitism course’ - which she did in Feb

Yet source says she

This is the scoop by Victoria Derbyshire on Diane Abbott MP I was talking about on BBC Radio 4 Today this morning. More on BBC Newsnight at 10.30pm bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I think this is the social care solution whoever wins power will eventually go for. However, it will still require substantial public funding input as most people who need social care do not have £100,000 in assets to set against it.

BREAKING:

Michael Gove becomes the 77th Tory MP to announce that he is standing down ahead of the general election and the second cabinet minister

The number quitting has easily eclipsed the 72 who stood down in the run up to 1997 with more to come

Gove decided this morning

“Let’s get this show on the road!”

🎙️ Podcast: Hannah Barnes, George Eaton, Rachel Cunliffe and Freddie Hayward kick of our election coverage!
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V strong interesting thread - hugely informative on the details of the Johnson government and Covid handling 👇

'Cruel', 'heartbreaking', 'a terrible idea', 'a shitshow'.

This is excellent from Rachel Cunliffe on why so many Tories are furious with Rishi Sunak. newstatesman.com/politics/conse…

God bless Peter Snow (and Kirsty Wark and all those who made Newsnight so indispensable over the years) for saying on BBC Radio 4 Media Show that the BBC cutting key news shows and reducing reporting resource - as the world falls apart and election is called - is madness

Not the election launch any PM would wish for, really.

Rain on your suit.
'Things Can Only Get Better' blaring away in the background.

Here we go...

Here we go... 4th July it is. General Election campaign is ON

“Fighting kleptocracy will be a focus of the next Labour Foreign Office”, Lammy told the New Statesman, “because money laundering and corruption fuels dictators while driving crime on British streets.”

🖊️ Will Dunn
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'For every healthcare scandal, there’s at least one whistle-blower. Rather than be taken seriously, they are often vilified and hounded out of their jobs.'
Must-read by Hannah Barnes on how institutions have been complicit in medical scandals:
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'[Sometimes] this House genuinely comes together as one and we do so today to pay tribute to your courage and determination'

Labour's Keir Starmer pays tribute to Tory MP Craig Mackinlay after his life-threatening episode of sepsis

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