2024: Rishi Sunak spent £2m on focus groups for 'eat out to help out' scheme

2023: Patrick Vallance, 'We didn't know about eat out to help out until it was announced'

What kind of person will spend £2 million on a scheme in a pandemic, without even asking government scientists…

You’re not the only one wondering where all the buses have gone…

Labour will give every community the power to take back control of their buses.

NEW: Labour's plan for high streets:

✅ 13,000 more neighbourhood police & PCSOs
✅ Face-to-face banking in every community
✅ Replace business rates
✅ Stamp out late payments
✅ Revamp empty shops, pubs & community spaces

Really excellent plans from The Labour Party to breathe life back into our high streets, making them safer, thriving places to be.

We are all propping up the private operators in this broken system. Public money makes up 40% of bus company revenue, but the public has no control. #Stagecoach made more than £50m in profit last year yet still we see services cut across #Cambridgeshire

Good jobs are being put at risk because of Conservative chaos and their lack of strategy.

Hitachi is a massive asset to the North East economy. The government must recognise that and act now.
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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.
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Naga Munchetty: You said the waiting lists have been reduced... & you say some parts of the country are doing well... where?

Victoria Atkins: Some trusts are meeting & exceeding the 80% target..

NM: Could you name them?

VA: No

#BBCBreakfast

Tackling shoplifting is a key part of Labour’s plan to breathe life back into our high streets, and rightly so.

In March, I visited a Co-op store to talk about abuse of shop workers and retail crime. You can read my post about it here: anna4labour.com/blog/retail-cr…

Why has it taken the Tories so long to listen to retailers, unions, Co-operative Party, & The Labour Party?

As Yvette Cooper says, Labour has been calling for tougher action against those who assault shop workers for over 10 years, calls the Tories previously opposed. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Labour's plan for better buses:

1.💰Empower local transport authorities and reform funding
2.🎮Allow every community to take back control of their buses
3.⏲Accelerate the bus franchising process
4.⛔Step in to safeguard local bus networks
5.🚍Reverse the ban on public ownership

Britain's bus services are in crisis.

Labour has a plan to Take Back Control 👇

🚌 *Better Buses*

Thank you for all your local support for our buses announcement regarding the No 9 - Littleport - Ely - Cambridge

In meantime Louise Haigh is highlighting national policy plans -good to be supported

Please share this video from Louise

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Today, I'm setting out Labour's plan for better buses.

Labour's plan will give every community a say over their buses.

Our plan means vital routes created and saved across the country, and better bus services wherever you live 🚍🌹

Fantastic news with Cambridgeshire being the first area mentioned! This could make a massive difference to bus users in Waterbeach who no longer have a service to Ely. So many residents completed a petition to say they are desperate to get it back. change.org/p/reinstate-a-…

The Cass Review must be a watershed moment for the NHS’s gender identity services.

My response for The Labour Party underlining our support for the Cass Review’s evidence-led recommendations and our determination to put children’s health and wellbeing above the political fray 👇🏻

The voter ID thing is designed to stop young people voting.

Sign up here to get your VOTER ID before the upcoming local elections.

electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-ele…

A lot of people annoyed at the tweet below because it 'Peddles myths' about voter ID.
And others annoyed because 'what's the point in voting?'
I'm merely suggesting making sure you have a suitable ID might be something you want to check before polling day. (HINT: If you're…

The deliberate and cynical destruction of Sure Start stands out - against stiff competition - as one of the worst long-term policy decisions taken by a British government in recent decades.

Labour vows to fund NHS pledges by tackling tax dodgers bbc.in/4aH5TK4