Labour will switch on Great British Energy — clean power built by Britain, owned by Britain, to cut bills and rebuild our industrial strength ⚡🇬🇧

We'll quadruple offshore wind, create thousands of good manufacturing jobs, and give us energy independence from foreign dictators.

Outstanding from Wes Streeting MP Mental health support cannot come soon enough for those that have been suffering for so long.

Tory govt has covertly signed a contract targeting 20% cuts to new education plans for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to bring down costs.

With a SEND son, I know the pain this will cause to so many children & families
😡 theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/s…

The Tamar Road Bridge between Cornwall and England opened this day in 1962

Waiting lists are just south of 8 million.

40,000 children wait 2 years for mental health support.

Rishi Sunak has no idea what that’s like.

And no plan to deal with it.

Only Labour has a plan to get people off waiting lists and back to work.

No words…..

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More important than the other news.

The number of British civil servants has exploded since Brexit. That's because many civil service tasks were previously pooled with other EU countries, leading to enormous savings. All those tasks now have to be covered by the UK on its own – adding to costs and bureaucracy.

Tories come up with uncosted National Insurance abolition and £75bn defence commitment but it's Louise Haigh who has to show all Labour's sums on BBC Breakfast
The contrast is breathtaking.

If Labour did this the BBC would be having a nervous breakdown

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

― Albert Camus

The uncomfortable moment when you realise where all your hateful rhetoric, deceit & lies lead & the dreary pantomime of distancing yourself from them.Ben Habib a 'human' seeking public office says the quiet part out loud UK should ‘absolutely’ let migrants drown in the Channel'

One of the worst things about human life is that every 18 months you have to call Sky and pretend that you're going to leave them until they find a magical offer which halves your bill which apparently didn't exist when you first rang

My sons autism team found out my cooker was broken so they applied for a grant for me and a new one was fitted today. They did everything. I cannot say how grateful I am. Such kindness.

When reality intervenes:

Angela Rayner: 'Their ban on leasehold won't apply to the majority of people... it's like banning non-doms, but exempting Tory Prime Ministers..'

#PMQs

Too good. #r4today

Sunak has effectively gone to Poland and announced an emergency budget making 70,000 redundancies to fund defence spending without telling Parliament and while we’re in purdah for the local elections.

Desperate.