“The Lib Dems beat you!”

Trevor Phillips accuses the Conservatives of “squatting” in No10

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This article by Trevor Phillips is bang on 👇

Our metro regions will be best served by 'place first' mayors free from party micromanagement. That will come with highs and lows but Westminster needs to keep its hands off, and we'll get a better calibre of politician for it.

You are right Trevor Phillips that we should celebrate regional identities in politics. Britain's over-centralised system largely ignores that. Where we have devolution to the regions, it is a random patchwork quilt

“Metro mayors are morphing into the most dynamic layer of our political life. They are going to cause trouble, no matter who occupies No 10 after the election. The more disruption and diversity of leadership in our sleepy, shabby public realm the better”
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What I'd like to ask Michael Thrasher is this. Does he honestly believe that based on the totality of data points - NEV, polls, by-elections, geographical spread of results - Labour will fail to secure a majority at the next election. Never mind what NEV says is isolation. What…

'The polls are not correct. There's everything to fight for.'

Transport Secretary Mark Harper says that despite 'disappointing' results for the Tories, 'Keir Starmer hasn't sealed the deal'.

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'The Liberal Democrats beat you!' - Trevor Phillips

'No they didn't...' - Mark Harper

The transport secretary rejects claims that the Tories are 'squatting' in No 10, after winning fewer council seats than the Lib Dems.

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'The PM wants to continue delivering on his priorities before we go to the country.'

Transport Secretary Mark Harper says while the government has made 'a lot of progress' on its five pledges, 'there's more to do'.

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Labour's lead over the Tories is down to just 7%, according to an updated National Equivalent Vote estimate.

Sky Elections Analyst Prof Michael Thrasher says Labour's lead needs to be double that to secure a majority.

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'Three reasons for finally waking up and smelling the coffee.'

Former Downing Street Communications Director Guto Harri says the Tories need to focus on governing competently and 'stop this psychodrama'.

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'I think he's been excessively cautious.'

Former Financial Times editor Lionel Barber says he'd score Labour a 'B minus', because it's not very clear what they stand for.

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'I don't think it matters who the SNP leader is now. It doesn't make much difference.'

Labour's Pat McFadden rules out planning pacts with other parties to win the general election.

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'The Tories are experiencing some southern discomfort right now.'

Labour's national campaigns coordinator Pat McFadden says it's a 'lazy assumption' that Labour can't contend in the Blue Wall.

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'Every day we spend in an internal contest, which I think we probably know the outcome of, we delay the SNP's rebuilding.'

John Swinney MSP addresses rumours he may face a challenger in his bid to be Scotland's First Minister.

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'A Labour government will be better than a Conservative government.'

SNP leadership contender John Swinney accuses the Tories of being 'unreservedly hostile' to Scotland.

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Former Tory minister Andrea Jenkyns MP 🇬🇧 wants Boris Johnson to return to frontline politics, and see Tories 'unite and take this fight to Labour'.

'I do not want to see Starmer and his fake patriotism get into No 10', she adds.

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'Eurovision is not a competition between nations or governments.'

European Broadcasting Union's deputy director general Jean Philip DE TENDER explains why Israel has been allowed to compete in Malmo at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.

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'Independence is off the agenda - that's the clear message from John Swinney.'

Former FT editor Lionel Barber and former Lib Dem adviser Miranda Green react to the SNP leadership candidate's interview with Trevor Phillips.

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'Excluding Kan [Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation] from Eurovision would have been a political decision'.

Organiser Jean Philip DE TENDER says the contest is about values, and is 'fully in line' with major sporting events.

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