🚨 NEW: Health Secretary Wes Streeting will tomorrow announce that lattes and milkshakes will be hit with a sugar tax in a bid to tackle obesity [The Times and The Sunday Times]

Today’s Budget was a total humiliation for Rachel Reeves. She will go down as the worst Chancellor this country has ever had. Her position is now untenable and she knows it👇

Hull East MP ⁦Karl Turner MP⁩ told the Commons why he was voting against the Labour Party for the first time in 16 years over “ludicrous” plans to cut jury trials #bbcpn

It’s not a secret LBC — I literally broke the news two weeks ago live on @GBNews. I was contacted by someone connected to his team, backed up by a Labour source. Alex Armstrong

Hull East by-election, anyone? Karl Turner MP pushes for a re-think on proposed jury reforms.

Interview earlier today on ⁦Talk⁩ with ⁦⁦Peter Cardwell⁩ #SaveourJuries

If The Labour Party MPs are fed up of all this marching up hills only to be marched back down again? Speak out. Don’t shy away by the threats we get. Don’t be fearful of those unnamed unelected individuals that badly advise our Prime Minister. Stand up and fight. Do right, fear no one!

Ministers have confirmed those already awaiting trial may lose their right to have their case heard by a jury, putting them on an even more explosive collision course with Labour rebels concerned about the plans. Sam Coates Sky reports ⬇️ trib.al/4yPn7D2

I have sacked Robert Jenrick from the Shadow Cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership with immediate effect. I was presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect in a way designed to be as damaging as possible to his

me watching my timeline every minute up to the 5pm NEC deadline

I have today written to the Chair of Labour’s National Executive Committee seeking permission to enter the selection process for a candidate for the forthcoming Gorton and Denton by-election. Read my letter here.👇🏻

🚨 BREAKING: Labour has blocked Andy Burnham from standing in the Gorton and Denton by-election

🚨 UPDATE: Deputy Labour Leader Lucy Powell was the only National Executive Committee member to vote for allowing Andy Burnham to stand

Why was Andy Burnham blocked? Lets take at face value for a moment the risk to the Manchester metro mayorship - with its budget of billions and control of the police. So could Labour really have lost where Burnham was re-elected by a landslide. In 2024 it looked like this:

PS - The fact that the media was informed of the NEC decision before I was tells you everything you need to know about the way the Labour Party is being run these days. You would think that over 30 years of service would count for something but sadly not. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This totally won’t backfire at all like any of their other decisions

BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer will be forced to give files relating to Peter Mandelson's appointment as the UK's ambassador to the US over to parliament's intelligence committee after a rebellion by Labour MPs Follow our live blog for more: trib.al/9m6B8iq

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So an MP or staff took the time to actually time the applause so they could leak it. 😬

1999: Tony Blair visits Hull and pledges a New Deal to re-build the Preston Road estate. 2026: Tony Blair visits Donald Trump and pledges a New Deal to re-build Gaza.