There is a persistent pattern of CCHQ/government investigations burying very serious issues (including credible allegations of criminality) until they act rapidly, after exposure in the media, months after knowing the content

Hi James Daly MP get your police letter writing pen.

Values

“You’ll say I’m a moaning remainer, but of course I am' says Asda chairman and Conservative peer Lord Rose.

'If you look at the stats nobody has convinced anybody that coming out of the EU was the right thing to do.”

#PoliticsHub trib.al/ftpea6d

📺 Sky 501

If Truss is looking for a rehabilitation in the Conservative Party then judging by the Mail serialisation, extensive GBN coverage and Truss-goggled reviews in Telegraph and Express (“a prophet who is largely ignored in her time”) this week has not been a disaster

Ping pong continues on Rwanda. They will need to decide next week whether to force the issue with 'double insistence'.

Given lack of capacity of the Rwanda scheme (<300) compared to those 'eligible' for it (50,000), I think the government could have committed (in the bill, or maybe outside of it) not to remove those who worked with the armed forces. Not a central issue re the scheme as a whole

The irony of Labour's constant attempts to link Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak is that the single thing that comes through from her book most clearly is that she really, really dislikes Rishi Sunak.

This Rwanda stand-off is much more the government's problem than the opposition's problem.

I don't really see the logic of the opposition parties needing to concede without several more rounds, having offered the government a reasonable and popular resolution to the stand-off.

Feargal Sharkey Thames Water 💧 Environment Agency bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/24258914.… Thank you for sharing our frustrations, Mr Sharkey ( Feargal Sharkey and Maureen McLean 🍃💚🍃)
·- residents and businesses in Chalfont St Peter have been treated abysmally. As one resident shouted, what century are we living in!

Tory MPs just voted to insist that Afghan interpreters who served British armed forces can be sent to Rwanda.

A scheme which costs £2m per asylum seeker. A £500m+ scheme for less than 1% of asylum seekers. Which now includes those who worked with our troops

Shameful & shambolic

Climate change

Perfect summary

Sunak should distance himself from
Truss far more often – one of his problems is that he has prioritised party unity over political coherence.

Despite the current drier spell, April is also going to be much wetter than average for many.

Rainfall has shifted further north and parts of NW England have already seen twice average monthly rainfall.

Full water report here assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6616811d…

Ends

It has been the wettest 6 months across the whole of England since records began in 1871.

The wettest 12 months across 18 English catchments

And the wettest 18 month period for England on record.

You may have noticed.

March was very wet.

Here’s some numbers around the wetness.

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England saw around one and a half times normal rainfall, following a February which had over twice average amounts of rain.

It was the 9th successive wet month.

Key thread

Call off the chase...just realised this message was on Instagram! But it really encapsulates the advice Sociable Dog gave us

Most people don't agree with Isabel. Most people think parliament should only declare Rwanda as safe if it is safe, with a process to check treaty implemented + to monitor future change too

Most people agree with Isabel that policy an expensive farce & probably won't ever happen