“The far right have forgotten what it means to be English”. Spot on David Lammy.

🗣️ "At the root cause of the gap that we've seen between poorer and richer young people and how well they do in exams is poverty. You're not going to do as well in school if you're going in hungry." Becky Montacute discusses today's results on The World at One 📻 #ResultsDay2024

In the past year local councils spent a record £1bn on temporary accommodation for homeless families, thanks to the housing crisis left by the Tories. We need to build more permanent homes, instead of spending huge sums on expensive short term solutions. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Poverty is a public health issue. Great to see the government lean into preventing poor health, but they need to make tackling poverty central to their plans if they are to succeed. Short 🧵 theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Local authorities spent £2.1 billion this year on private school places for children with special needs plans. Up 15% on the year before. Just aren't anywhere near enough special school places in the state sector.

Bleak statistics today explain why temporary accommodation is probably the biggest immediate problem faced by Labour... New govt figures show that the number of households facing homelessness has exceeded (320,000) between 2023-2024, the highest on record.

As with children's social care, see also temporary accommodation. The new government needs to get moving on local government finance.

It is brilliant to see the Employment Bill include two of our recommendations: for all employees to receive sick pay and from the first say that they are ill. One thing is missing "strengthening sick pay" by increasing the rate of Statutory Sick Pay. No one can live on £116 pw

To put Russia on the back foot and keep it backpedaling, we need to undermine the Kremlin on the battlefield and in its war economy- but the domestic information space is important too. Here’s how to approach it foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/putins…

Last night, Palestinians were burned to death in tents at the Al-Aqsa Hospital courtyard. The destroyed hospital could not treat those who survived the bombs Airstrikes at Nuseirat school, due to be used for vaccinations, killed 15 This is Israel's war-of-extermination in Gaza

🚨The special needs system is on the brink of collapse. The government's spending watchdog will publish its own likely damning investigation this week But we’ve been chronicling the collapse for years. And I just want to set out how seriously bad things are … (mega 🧵)

No safe routes for Gaza's civilians - The UK government continues to let Palestinians down -a must read. The Bindmans immigration team at the very front of every important legal battle. Thank you for your very hard work Liz, Elisabeth and Jenni. solicitorsjournal.com/sjarticle/why-…

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk says that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is at its darkest moment yet and warns of potential crimes against humanity: "Unimaginably, the situation is getting worse by the day. The Israeli Government’s policies and practices in northern Gaza

Lowering the maximum level of debt deductions from Universal Credit payments is a positive move. It needs to be part of a wider package of changes to guarantee that households cannot fall below a level of income they need to meet their essential costs theguardian.com/society/2024/o…

This is fascinating.

This is deeply disappointing. The only moral way to reduce housing benefit costs over time is to build homes that people on low incomes can actually afford to rent. Until that happens, benefits are all that stand between thousands of people & homelessness bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The ONLY way to stop people taking dangerous journeys is to let them take safe ones. Most people fleeing for their lives have no safe way to claim asylum in the UK - that's why people are arriving by small boats. Reinstate safe routes NOW! 1/2 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

🚨 Reinstate maintenance grants🚨 Since maintenance grants were abolished, students from less affluent homes have since been leaving university with more debt than their wealthier peers. We are calling on the Government to reintroduce grants for lower income students.

How to prevent a Trump-style rise here? Good early thoughts from UCL Policy Lab: 💷 Relentless focus on the everyday economy 🔧 Bottom-up redesign of public services + social safety net 🤝 Only in our shared connection and humanity can we build a hopeful politics for the future

The number of people in temporary accommodation has now reached the highest on record: