Settlement must then be earned. The time to qualify for Indefinite Leave to Remain will double from five to ten years.

Early today Tom moaned about the chancellor using an American pronunciation. Yet, here, he expresses no irritation with the importation of American terminology nor political systems by an opposition party leader

On the holiest day of the year we are attacked at a Manchester synagogue. Our children walk to school behind barbed wire protected by guns. Yet some still answer this atrocity with “what about…” This is my country, the sanctuary my grandfather found after surviving the

Most non Jews don’t know how securitised Jewish spaces now are. Guards (often armed), metal detectors, security doors. I’ve spoken at mosques & churches: No other faith has this, is targeted as frequently, nor is subject to as much/any whataboutism when threatened or scared.

I am horrified by the antisemitic terrorist attack at a synagogue on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. The government has stepped up security at synagogues across the whole of the country, and we will do whatever is required to keep our Jewish community safe. To those

This is simply ahistorical. People born in the late 20s (Routledge was born Feb 29) grew up with mass unemployment, an exhausted State struggling to cope with 'total wars', the Empire on the doorstep (Ireland) had gone, and the US was very obviously the preeminent power

The increase in the rate of growth of GDP per capita correlates with the Indian supreme courts ruling on the Right to Food which significantly expanded state intervention

Javier Milei next to Thatcher is a strange choice

Yeah it’s definitely the workers protection and not the fact Europe prevents significant state intervention in the industrial economy that is causing this problem

But you also don’t have to pass a budget, there’s no requirement to bring money bills

Because that worked out so well over the last 14 years

It is okay to just admit you just don't understand Westminster system of government Tom Would probably save a lot of time

The British public have voted for reduced immigration at every election for 20 years. They will eventually get what they voted for, it can either be delivered by a Labour government or a Reform one

£3bn of “headroom” appeared overnight. If that can change in weeks what faith can anyone have in the next set of fiscal numbers for 5 yrs' time? These aren’t solid forecasts –they’re moving targets. We should show a range of headroom figures not pretend there’s one precise answer

This was a Conservative 2019 manifesto policy but obviously we’ve got to bash civil servants instead

Tom campaigned for the party that had this policy in its manifesto

Our industrial heritage is the story of the ordinary, extraordinary people who built this country in places like Ironbridge Today, Lisa Nandy MP announced a £9 million government grant for National Trust to protect museums in the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution

Mamdani’s sentence below is a small masterpiece of sophistry: a polished, deceptive fragment that takes four times as many words to unravel. To counter it, one must first reject the false claim that Israel has a hierarchical legal system based on race or religion. It does not.

Andy Haldane is absolutely right. The fiscal straitjacket is restricting growth and crucial investment ft.com/content/16472c…

"The last few weeks have been incredibly tough on my family with my personal life so much in the public eye... it is the price we pay for the privilege of service" Angela Rayner gives personal statement after her resignation from government last month bbc.in/42P0e3l