One day the Church will wonder how it managed to get it so wrong on same sex love and marriage.

Charging for GP appointments or admissions to A&E would exclude millions of people from the NHS.

I can rule out a Labour government ever bringing in charging.

Why can’t the Conservatives?

Yep. Self inflicted

Remarkable stat from Mark Carney here: “Put it this way, in 2016 the British economy was 90 per cent the size of Germany’s. Now it is less than 70 per cent. And that calculation was made before today.”

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Why on earth do ministers agree to do interviews to defend someone or something when they haven’t established the facts beforehand? Do they prefer to sound ignorant or complacent? They end up complicit.

This is all far too slow.

This is all good stuff from ⁦⁦David Lammy⁩

Labour will reconnect ‘tarnished UK’ with European allies, says Lammy theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

So far in 91 days under Sunak:
📌Braverman reappointed after multiple breaches of ministerial code
📌Williamson sacked
📌Raab under investigation
📌Zahawi under investigation
📌Sunak fined
It’s all going very well.

Excellent

'It's hard enough to convince people around the world that the BBC is an independent broadcaster, not a state broadcaster.'

Former Chair Diane Coyle on the Tory government giving BBC jobs to 'mates'.

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emily m | Jon Sopel | Lewis Goodall

If this is true it is the most shocking revelation of the year so far

Tonight at 8 pm, BBC One will air “BBC Wales Investigates: Welsh Rugby Under the Spotlight” investigating claims of sexism, bullying and sexual harassment at the Welsh Rugby Union.

Here is my statement ahead of tonight’s programme.

'The list [of ministers' interests] is 243 days old. It's not even an accurate list of ministers. Not even of the last set of ministers, or the set before that. The public ought to know, within a week of a minister being appointed, their financial interests.' ~AA Chris Bryant

Andrew Bridgen is making a personal statement, apologising to the House and the former commissioner for standards for his breaches of the code of conduct

Yet more evidence of ministers uttering untruths - and of how the uk economy has struggled under the Tories

Good point by Chris Bryant: For a country to move beyond a torrid period - war, inflation, NHS, energy, cost of living crises - gov't needs a country's trust. All these scandals mean not only that gov't isn't focussed on what matters, but that public trust is squandered. ~AA

Yep. 11 million pensioners. That’s the problem with this country. It really is. Too many people living too long having paid in all their years. (NB I’m being sarcastic)

Tory government shenanigans continue!

Angry John of Bradford Chris Bryant It's when I saw the stats for back seat passengers without belts killing the person in the front seat that I decided to belt up !