Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are planning to push a bill to ban non-US-citizens from voting.

Something which is already illegal.
independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

Also, 🔥Liz Truss’s autobiography extracts have just dropped … and it’s clear it’s going to be an absolute banger

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

In this tiny extract the Queen dies - and Truss is moved to ask “Why me?”

Why most people now regret Brexit, my take from the two Richmonds:
economist.com/britain/2024/0… from The Economist

NEW: Angela Rayner remains insistent she has done nothing wrong.

In a statement issued this evening she says she would stand down if she had done anything criminal.

She accuses the Conservatives of political games and only reporting her to police for electoral gain.

Tens of thousands of doctors are hoping to quit the NHS and move abroad this year in search of better pay, the GMC has warned.

1 in 3 doctors cited the government’s handling of the NHS and response to junior doctors’ strikes as a key “trigger moment” in wanting to move abroad.

Yeah. This would all be more convincing if you hadn't unlawfully suspended parliament. There's a cost to that sort of thing. And it's being able to play the elder statesman when you've left office.

That an MP with a majority of 20k feels the need to do this is pretty telling.

a reminder that Thames Water’s debts have grown from *zero* to over £18bn since privatisation - with billions sucked out in dividends

A few people’ve asked about the impact of the Daily Mail’s wokesconegate, on sales of National Trust scones. The ‘scone per visitor’ trends in the 10 days following the news were:

Cheese (non-vegan) = no change
Fruit = no change
Plain = 15% increase

Victory to woke scones 🫡

'This creeping corruption has got to stop. It’s another item on Labour’s lengthy to-do list: reassert the integrity and independence of Britain’s cultural institutions.' Charlotte Higgins
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Weirdly it saved my life and still does to this day

Telegraph journalist Sophia Money-Coutts, of the Coutts dynasty, says young people have it too good.

Paul Nowak isn't having it.

Begging political Twitter to internalise that MRP models are hyper sensitive to polling shifts and inputted assumptions and that confidence intervals on individual seats are usually pretty big 🙏

Useful yes but uncertainty important to understand

Our latest polling shows 1 in 4 people in Scotland are unaware of the need for photo ID at the next general election - compared to 1 in 5 in Wales and 14% in England.
scotsman.com/news/politics/…

'Compassionate Conservatism' is dead.

🎨 Ben Jennings

Unbelievable. The UK's Covid-19 Inquiry refuses to acknowledge the mental health impact of the pandemic. 1/4

Some GOOD news for your Friday feed 👇 her quote is amazing.

A secret recording obtained by ITV News has revealed Angela Van Den Bogerd, former Head of Partnerships at the Post Office, was told in January 2015 that the organisation had “materially misled” the courts in prosecuting Carl Page - a sub-postmaster from Staffordshire,…

Wow.

🚨The Government paid The Phoenix Partnership, owned by Tory Donor Frank Hester another £3.6million in January.

According to data recently published by DHSC.

Follows similar sums in December 2023 ⬇️