Lord Houchen told Sky News he was not wearing a blue Conservative rosette because “I didn’t have one and I forgot it”

'I’ve got my blue socks on and my blue tie on and we’ve had Rishi up during the election.'

#LocalElections2024
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Lee Anderson on Sky News: “I think the public’s already made their mind up.

'I think Rishi Sunak could fly over the UK tonight in a helicopter and drop a million pounds down every chimney and they would still vote him out come October' #LocalElections2024

Guessing this one doesn't qualify for #dogsatpollingstations but it has the same energy

Unusual set up for Cambridge voters briefly this morning

Andy Street has called on the owner of Cadbury to quit doing business in Russia, as he urged bosses to reflect on the confectionery brand’s Quaker roots (via Daniel Woolfson )
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Yvette Cooper a week ago: 'We are not going to do the Rwanda scheme'

Excl: Sadiq Khan has for the first time not included a commitment to oppose building on London's green belt land in his manifesto

In his 2016 and 2021, the manifesto pledge was alongside his promises to make London a greener city
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Rishi Sunak joined James Cleverly in his challenge to do 100 press-ups a day for charity – but only managed to do 20

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Rosie Duffield was right to say that only women have a cervix, Sir Keir Starmer says

This is the first time he has spoken about trans issues since the publication of the Cass Review into NHS gender care
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🧨🧨🧨

Humza Yousaf is expected to announce his resignation as Scotland’s First Minister ***later today***.
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Difference between Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak as PM

Former Defence Sec Ben Wallace (who served under both PMs):

'Boris and I would do the announcement and have the fight with the treasury afterwards. Rishi does business by making sure he has done the analysis before'

LBC

'Rude countdown' newsreader is so back

The Elizabeth Tower clock appeared to stop for about an hour, before showing the correct time again at about 10:15am.

Big Ben’s bongs sounded 11am at 10:06am despite the hands of at least two of the clock faces showing 9am.
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Rather large horsebox directed out of Westminster with at least two horses inside with a significant police presence

JK Rowling responds to my story from last night that Shabana Mahmood, Labour shadow justice secretary, said she agrees with the author that 'biological sex is real and is immutable'

NEW: Labour shadow justice secretary Shabana Mahmood has said she agrees with JK Rowling that “biological sex is real and is immutable”.

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NEW: Labour shadow justice secretary Shabana Mahmood has said she agrees with JK Rowling that “biological sex is real and is immutable”.

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Excl: Andy Street has said that Rishi Sunak allows 'too much noise' from the Right wing of the party

Speaking to The Telegraph, the West Midlands mayor also said he would 'do very good work with a Labour government' if he were to win again next month (1/2)
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