Recent study finds that over 50% of children in Rwanda are victims of sexual, physical or emotional violence shar.es/ags2ct

Remember you told us at the end of March that Jeffrey Donaldson would be in court today?
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And today he is.
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The right-wing papers are getting very excited about Sunak's completely unfunded defence spending pledge.

All he's pledging, however, is restoring defence spending back to the level it was in 2010, when the Tories got their hands on the defence budget. Awesome 🤦.

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Interested to see how #r4today covers Jeffrey Donaldson this morning, in court charged with rape and other sexual offences. More or less coverage than Angela Rayner?

Your chosen newspapers might not remember this. . .

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'New funding secured'

If you were shadow minister, Mr Shapps, and Labour told you they'd secured £75bn over six years without a defence review, without a spending review, without a budget, without an explanation, how would your advisers tell you to protest about it?

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So nothing on Donaldson, nothing on the far right riots in London, nothing on Braverman's actions against Windrush being found to be unlawful. #r4today
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Fair comment.

Abolishing the entire civil service would not pay for this increase in defence spending

Ofcom's CEO said last month that they should hold GB News to 'different' impartiality standards to the BBC, because the Beeb's higher viewing figures mean 'we expect different things and I think that’s appropriate.”

Ofcom have now admitted this was wrong

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2.5% is not a 'war footing' - nor is it even a serious pledge: the MOD cannot budget for spending £87bn in 2030 until it's in a budget document ... it's a welcome shift, triggered by ⁦Keir Starmer⁩ pledge, with the rest stolen from Labour progressivebritain.org/2little2late/

.The Labour Party should simply point out that (1) Boris Johnson made exactly the same promise, and (2) there is no MoD budget for 2025 and zero chance that Sunak will have to live up to this pledge.

This policy really is bringing out the most obscene garbage from its proponents. You can almost see it rot the moral centre of the brain.

The Independent digital front: Think again, Prime Minister #TomorrowsPapersToday

Sunak has allocated 2200 detention spaces, 200 caseworkers, 25 courtrooms, 150 judges and 5000 sitting days for Rwanda

At a time when rape victims have to wait almost 2 years for a trial the PM has suddenly found the cash and capacity to get what he wants
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Mike Tomlinson gives a masterclass in how not to do a media interview

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Tax cuts…tax cuts… increase defence spending by £75 billion…tax cuts..tax cuts…tax cuts.

Braverman n Anderson followers - horrific

Incredible. Conservative London mayoral candidate Susan Hall now tells LBC she's backed universal free school meals for primary school children all along 'and that can be documented'.

Here she is just earlier this month calling them 'wrong' and twice saying she'd scrap them

Extraordinary development in the Tees Valley mayoral election race tonight

Boro chairman Steve Gibson has come out and endorsed Labour's Chris McEwan and launched a scathing attack on Ben Houchen and Teesworks

✍️ Exclusive Chris Lloyd

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