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UK on Friday: I worry about heating my home this winter UK on Wednesday: I worry about having a home this winter

2 huge stories tonight - Kwarteng went for victory drinks with hedge fund managers after his budget, promising to “double down” - Truss has banned Charles from speaking on climate change, & he’s briefing against her. Relations between them have broken down after just 2 weeks

Suella Braverman is remarkably self assured for someone who is widely regarded as the worst Attorney General in history.

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A word of advice to Tories: if you don’t want people to detest your party then stop being detestable. Parents are starving themselves to feed their kids on your watch. Suella Braverman ‘dreams’ of sending refugees to Rwanda. You stand for cruelty and sadism. That. Is. Detestable.

Imagine winning the Brexit vote, having a Conservative Govt, ousting your leader (May) and any opposing Tory ministers, winning an 80 seat majority & utterly blowing it, taking the UK’s reputation & credibility down with you. They should be run out of town for a decade.

Grant Shapps, who used a fake name in order to pose as a "millionaire web marketer" running a get-rich-quick scheme, and then lied about it for three years, is now in charge of law, order and security in the UK.

Starmer: “The only time he ran in a competitve election he got trounced by the former Prime Minister, who herself got beaten by a lettuce.”

For context, if Hunt and Sunak doubled the energy profits levy, that would raise an additional $1.4bn or £1.2bn from BP alone, on an annualised pro forma basis. No small sum. And it is only 56% of what BP returned to shareholders in a buyback for just the last three months

“We remain extremely concerned about our patients and their safety and for the welfare of staff who are struggling”, RCEM says VP_Scotland_RCEM Full statement here: rcem.ac.uk/we-remain-extr…

First newspapers call for cut to licence fee. Then same papers report shock at redundancies, closures or repeats. Later papers say licence fee now not value for money because of … BTW This is a routine offer of voluntary redundancy which no-one named here is likely to take up

"I want this government at the next election to only come in with 80 seats maximum. "I want them not to be able to even form the opposition." Carol Vorderman explains why she is a proponent of tactical voting.

“You were told that it would be pain-free. You were told that it would all be upsides, no downsides” Former No 10 Press Secretary Alastair Campbell claims the British public were “lied to” and calls for Boris Johnson to be held accountable #bbcqt bit.ly/3Xk0OSC

It simply beggars belief that Sunak has spent the last few days saying he's doing the unpopular thing on public sector pay because he needs to curb government spending when he's also doing this which won't work and is just for headlines. Billions for headlines.

What the actual fuck?

Suella Braverman broke law by denying asylum seekers £3 a week, judge rules | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian …. DISGUSTING. And, as with everything bad about this government, unlikely to be getting the coverage it should. theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j…

Petition: Review aftercare provided by the NHS for everyone affected by a Cardiac Arrest petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6392…

If Sunday Times is correct that Sunak wants to abolish inheritance tax, this quote in its scoop from a government insider is just priceless, by way of justification for the tax cull: “a lot of people don’t know that they won’t pay it”. The point, which this government adviser

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