Here's what's gone wrong for the Conservative party.

They didn't adopt austerity in 2010 because the economy needed it. They adopted it because it allowed them to do an ideological shrinkage of the state, while blaming Labour. Austerity wasn't economics, it was pure politics.

One of the late stages of political madness is delusion. You’re not lying. You believe what you’re saying. You’ve persuaded yourself everyone else is wrong. But your beliefs don’t factor in reality.

Labour’s progress in the south of England. The amount of the blue wall turning red is an under noticed and underwritten story.

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Projected National Vote is misinformation at this point.

People have always voted differently locally, even moreso in recent years. Hull won't go LD. Castle point won't go localist, Stroud won't go GRN. + We're supposed to believe 'others' are on 2x the vote of peak UKIP?

The Labour Party made history in the West Midlands today.

We are ready to serve you.

We are ready to get Britain’s future back.

What a lovely bunch of The Labour Party Mayors!

Many congratulations to our returned Mayors: Sadiq Khan Andy Burnham Steve Rotheram Tracy For Mayor 🌹 Oliver Coppard

And to our brilliant new Mayors: Kim McGuinness David Skaith Claire Ward Richard Parker for West Mids Mayor 🌹!

Next step: General Election.

Labour GAIN from the Conservatives: Congratulations to Richard Parker for West Mids Mayor 🌹, the new Labour Mayor for West Midlands🌹

It’s time to turn the page on Tory decline and usher in a decade of national renewal with Labour.

Labour WIN: Congratulations to David Skaith the new Labour Mayor for York and North Yorkshire🌹

Here Gary explains why the projections of Labour’s national vote share from the local elections are lower than the general election opinion polls suggest. It is a bit nonsensical to talk about Labour being on course to fall short of a majority because these projections are based…

This time yesterday Labour had 800 of these seats and the Tories had 802.

Somehow Sunak is saying Labour are out of touch.

Ermm....

Blackpool South parliamentary by-election, result:

LAB: 58.9% (+20.6)
CON: 17.5% (-32.1)
REF: 16.9% (+10.7)
LDEM: 2.1% (-1.0)
GRN: 2.0% (+0.3)

Labour GAIN from Conservative.

Stella Creasey rips into the new border checks

'This govt has delayed bringing in checks 5 times... they could've negotiated an SPS deal in that time.. this will add £8 a month to the average food shop.. our constituents can't eat the paperwork this will create.. time to cancel'

No one should have to wait years for mental health support. 

My Labour government will give people the support they need by recruiting thousands of mental health staff and putting support into schools and communities right across the country.

news.sky.com/story/sir-keir…

⚖️ The Safety of Rwanda Bill will soon become law, but we believe it remains a defective, constitutionally improper piece of legislation. (1/4)

Ed Conway: Do you have an apology for the people whose mortgages went up so much during your time in office?

Liz Truss: 'It's wrong to suggest that I'm responsible for British people paying higher mortgages... ' 👀

#TrevorPhillips #bbclaurak

It’s almost as if he didn’t understand what he was voting for …..

THREAD🧵: With so many leadership changes and policy u-turns, it is hard to keep track of the promises on which the Conservatives were elected to gov't in 2019.

I have had a detailed look back at their 2019 manifesto. ~AA 1/

As if we needed any further proof, this past week has shown us what a total and utter con the government’s so-called ‘Levelling Up’ agenda really is

A little Sunday 🧵 for you