In defence of the ECHR. It’s there to protect OUR rights. It’s a precious institution that Britain - and Churchill - helped to set up and it helps ensure that we are part of an international rules based order. Let’s not join Belarus and Putin’s Russia on the outside.

A new YouGov poll has the Tories on less than 20% of the vote. This has become existential.

In defence of the ECHR. It’s there to protect OUR rights. It’s a precious institution that Britain - and Churchill - helped to set up and it helps ensure that we are part of an international rules based order. Let’s not join Belarus and Putin’s Russia on the outside.

I go head to head with Reform’s Lee Anderson this evening at 7pm.

No quarter was given and none asked for.

And yes, I asked him to apologise to Sadiq Khan for his Islamophobic slur.

Plus I hit back against the populist drive to leave the ECHR.

“Starmer is courting Tory voters so hard it’s almost as though he wants to lose his own | Frances Ryan | The Guardian” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

For all the London haters on here, this is a little thread of some of the blossom and flowers I came across on my walk today.

Beginning with this gorgeous double-coloured pink and white Japanese flowering cherry

Very good by ⁦Matthew Syed⁩ thetimes.co.uk/article/like-a…

EXCL: UK taxpayers have paid out more than £34,000 to cover cost of science minister Michelle Donelan’s libel case - more than double the sum the government previously admitted.
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Broadcaster and commentator Matthew Stadlen says 'toxicity' needs to be removed from the debate on trans issues.

'I would not call a trans woman a man because I think it's offensive.'

Matthew Stadlen

Matthew Stadlen In fairness, there are so many former British PMs now it’s hard not to bump into them.