🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

The crossover you never knew you needed - LGBT+ Labour and Labour YIMBY hosted a brilliant fundraiser tonight for akt - speeches from Joe Dharampal-Hornby Abdi Duale Tom Wilson 🇺🇦

We raised over £11k for the Albert Kennedy Trust tonight, a great evening with friends for a really important cause.

Our pubs, restaurants & live music venues are the beating heart of our cultural life, so it’s vital they’re given every chance to survive and thrive. That’s why new trial powers for London will back the capital’s pubs and clubs–boosting the nighttime economy and driving growth.

This government is backing our pubs, clubs and restaurants. Less red tape, more partnership with business, more jobs and more money in people's pockets.

Long overdue, looking forward to this expanding to all cities.

What happens when we just get stuff built, example 1,001: "The council thinks 250,000 journeys will have been made by Easter, against initial expectations of 50,000." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

‼️MAJOR NEWS‼️ Government amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill will scrap consultation requirements on major infrastructure projects, significantly speeding up their completion Beat the blockers, back Labour: gov.uk/government/new…

Labour source in The Sunday Times on party’s narrative compared to Reform:

City Hall’s new position will be to actively explore the release of parts of London’s green belt for development. We'll be working with councils and others to secure as many new homes as we can on brownfield sites, but this alone will not be enough to meet our needs.

Incredibly welcome news from Sadiq. The Mayor’s ambition and honesty about the scale of London’s housing crisis is hugely welcome. His decision to utilise appropriate Green Belt land in London is a bold and necessary step to tackle the housing crisis.

The Economist estimates that the annual costs of Reform UK’s manifesto would be around £200bn and savings around £100bn. The gap would amount to a colossal fiscal shock, blowing up the deficit and straining the gilt market to its limit econ.st/4jGgTfP

Plans for 12 new towns in England to cost up to £48bn, report says on.ft.com/4kqYvaK

In an attempt to boost UK housing numbers; WPI Strategy are identifying potential sites for new towns - top of their forthcoming list are: - Milton Keynes - Leeds - South Gloucestershire - Central Bedfordshire - Wiltshire - Huntingdonshire Each site will cost approximately £3.5bn

New towns: Where should they be and how should they be funded? WPI Strategy report out today identifies 12 “trailblazer” locations which meet a range of economic criteria and where public support is higher than elsewhere. on.ft.com/4k040NJ

Very glad to see our report recommending 12 sites for the first wave of New Towns published today, assessed using economic criteria and crucially local popular support. Looking forward to talking further about it on Thursday at a launch in Parliament.

The first privatised train was too. Maybe not surprising on a bank holiday.

This from Badenoch would be a resignation matter under usual circumstances.

Thinking of everyone in Liverpool. Horrific.

To keep our country secure at home and strong abroad the Labour Government has earmarked more than £1bn for battlefield tech. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Long overdue and very welcome.