So this shambles of a govt are charging for Brexit checks but are waving freight through to keep freight moving.

All they had to do was dynamically align to EU standards, but instead decided to ensure thousands of businesses go bust and more people to fall into destitution.

Brexit appears to have finally broken the Daily Mail. They've published an honest headline about the subject for once.

Have they tried switching the newspaper off and on again?

Oh.

ITV News has learned that imports of food and plants from the EU are being waved through customs even if they have incorrect paperwork

Joel Hills reports on the new Post-Brexit border checks which came into force this morning

“Houchen has given away hundreds of millions with no explanation' - Steve Gibson, owner of Middlesbrough Football Club.

My first action as Tees Valley Mayor would be to open up the office of Mayor to proper scrutiny, open the books on Teesworks and rebuild the trust that has

When the ultimate Jedi comes out fighting your corner, you know you’re doing something right
Mark Hamill getting behind Sadiq Khan’s campaign… May the 2nd be with you 👌

I LOVE London! Lived there for years while filming & our 1st child was born there, in St. John's Wood. I wholeheartedly support Sadiq Khan for Mayor on May 2. He’s been a driving force in cleaning up London’s air & choosing #HopeOverFear

For a fairer, safer & greener London,

📊 Labour lead at 18pts
Westminster voting intention

LAB: 44% (+1)
CON: 26% (-1)
LDEM: 10% (+1)
REF: 10% (-)
GRN: 3% (-1)

via Savanta UK, 26 Apr
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Tory council splashed £54,000 on Mayoral chauffeur in same month it declared bankruptcy mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

London Mayoral Voting Intention:

Khan (LAB): 47% (+1)
Hall (CON): 25% (-2)
Garbett (GRN): 7% (-2)
Blackie (LDM): 6% (-2)
Cox (RFM): 6% (=)
Others: 8% (+4)

Via YouGov, 24-30 Apr.
Changes w/ 9-17 Apr.

Susan Hall Campaigns with Tommy Robinson Supporting Anti-ULEZ Activist Who 'Applauds' Vandals and Believes Islamists are in Charge of Britain – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/04/30/sus…

Here's Greg Hands Conservative MP and minister for London using the death of a child to draw fire on Sadiq Khan. Absolutely despicable.

Cruel Little Britain.. Aren’t we better than this hypocrite?

Steve Coogan explains why he is backing Andy Burnham for Mayor of Greater Manchester.

Tory MP Richard Holden: “Austerity wasn’t a choice that we made. It was something imposed on us by a reckless Labour government”

Jo Coburn: “To be clear, Labour didn’t cause the financial crash”

Tory MP Richard Holden: “No, no they didn’t”

#PoliticsLive

Prof Joseph Stiglitz(Economist): 'I think this scheme you have, in the UK, of deporting people to Rwanda is really weird, it's as bad as Trump's deterrent of separating children from their parents... '

#PoliticsLive

Re-reading one of the great post-war British plays - The Long and the Short and the Tall by the brilliant Willis Hall. #WillisHall

Something almost sweet about the Tories trying to pretend these are the key votes on Thursday. Check out Kenneth Baker Westminster Wandsworth strategy back in the 90s. These spin operations only work if the media let them. Ps if Houchen holds on keeps the Teesworks corruption in

The developers have put in nothing.

You can’t trust a word he says.

A secret, unpublished memo from Margaret Thatcher’s tax-cutting chancellor Nigel Lawson - whose portrait Rishi Sunak hung above Treasury desk - warned against merging NI & income tax b/c it would “create many losers” incl pensioners 👀
Jessica Elgot theguardian.com/money/2024/apr…