Remember. Rishi does 10km in 47”. Fastest PM ever.

Awful!

I wrote about the repressive Iran regime last Saturday. Now reported that Toomaj Salehi, a famous hip hop star with over 2 million followers, has been sentenced to death for backing the Mahsa Amini protests in 2022. Executed for supporting women’s rights. They truly are barbaric.

👏Fantastic turnout yesterday evening for our event with expert speakers Delyth Morgan, Lord Bethell and Anita Charlesworth, who debated the question: how can we finally deliver the #prevention revolution?

If you missed it, here's some highlights⬇️

Lord Bethell making the case that there is public anger at worsening national health, and support for regulation (sugar tax, smoking ban) to improve long term health of the nation. Good! Demos

This is very good.

I agree. When we say “we need to change the environment for our kids”, this is what we mean.

Good to see Mel Stride and Victoria Atkins working together on making a healthy 🇬🇧 people so we can have a prosperous 🇬🇧 economy.
Two key departments. One important mission.
Though… preventing disease in the first place also important.
We’re too sick. We need to pivot to…

Jon,

Please explain, using numbers, why you think the Conservatives have a majority in the House of Lords.

Thoughtful stuff from Ben Wealthy.

Public health first.

A policy platform for change.

labourlist.org/2023/05/labour…

What a legend!

Let’s stop pretending that paying for sex is anything but abuse thetimes.co.uk/article/stop-p…

Great effort by Jeremy Hunt. And clearly embracing the fun and the amazing people at this wonderful national event. We are very lucky to have such a Chancellor.

You’d think that we’d’ve learnt our lesson on promptly galvanising funky new infectious disease. But i fear we’ve gone backwards not forwards on pandemic preparedness. Peter Horby makes a powerful point.

Here’s a positive story about Britain’s politicians today.

There are lots of them (from all parties) running the London Marathon for a range of worthy causes, including research on cancer, to migraines and dyslexia.