Basit Mahmood (@basitmahmood91) 's Twitter Profile
Basit Mahmood

@basitmahmood91

Labour Party Councillor for Challney Ward, Luton. Editor of @leftfootfwd. Passionate about tackling poverty and inequality and promoting social mobility.

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Great to join you all for the launch of #CarersWeek2025! Lots of great events happening throughout this week, more info here - m.luton.gov.uk/Page/Show/news…

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Self-proclaimed 'man of the people' Nigel Farage rules out taxes on the wealthy and claims that wealthy entrepreneurs are leaving the UK as a result of taxes. The reality? Tax Justice Network have found that just 0.3% of the UK's millionaires left the UK in 2024.

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The right-wing press have tried to whip up a moral panic over a 'millionaire exodus' from the UK due to tax policies. After reviewing the evidence, the Tax Justice Network finds that millionaire migration rates consistently stood at near-0% for every year.

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Reeves takes aim at Farage: ā€œThe member for Clacton may be playing the friend of the workers now but some of us are old enough to remember when he described the disastrous Liz Truss budget as the best Conservative budget since the 1980sā€ #spendingreview

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🚨 A brilliant announcement from our Labour government today, which is investing in Britain’s renewal. Ensuring people in Luton North and Luton South and South Bedfordshire and across the country have an affordable and secure home.

🚨 A brilliant announcement from our Labour government today, which is investing in Britain’s renewal.

Ensuring people in Luton North and Luton South and South Bedfordshire and across the country have an affordable and secure home.
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šŸ  Ā£39bn for social and affordable housing šŸ”‹ Ā£14.2bn Sizewell investment šŸ§‘ā€šŸ­ Ā£2.5bn for small modular reactors šŸ’· 2.6% of GDP on defence šŸ„ Ā£29bn extra for the NHS šŸ‘® Extra funding for police, prisons and probation Different choices from this Government šŸ™Œ #SpendingReview

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Out on the Labour doorstep during this National Campaign Weekend in Challney Ward and Saints Ward, talking to residents about the spending review and local concerns.

Out on the Labour doorstep during this National Campaign Weekend in Challney Ward and Saints Ward, talking to residents about the spending review and local concerns.
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The irony of Tories trying to lecture the Labour government on law and order when the last Tory government came to be defined for breaking the law and showing complete contempt for rules that they expected everyone else to follow.

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It’s not a ā€˜lack of aspiration’ that’s holding back young people from working class and underrepresented backgrounds. My own experience has taught me that young people who have experienced hardship are fiercely ambitious. It’s a lack of opportunity that’s the problem.

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Casey's report is a devastating indictment of our collective failure to protect children from group-based exploitation. Her recommendations for change are welcome and necessary, including robust charging of perpetrators, and better data collection and information sharing (1/2)

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Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips speaks on how misogyny is at the 'heart' of the grooming gang scandal. trib.al/kdXA2Dr šŸ“ŗ Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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An important fact on this Labour government’s record that shouldn’t be ignored. Real wages have grown more in the first 10 months of this Labour government than during the first ten years of Tory governments since 2010.

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With workers in Reform controlled councils worried about their jobs, pay and conditions, the UK’s largest trade union saw its membership jump by 200% in the 10 local authorities won by Nigel Farage’s party at last month’s local elections. leftfootforward.org/2025/06/uks-la…