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🚨🚨🚨Wow, outgoing CJS Chair Milley hits Trump at retirement ceremony: "We don't take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator ...we take an oath to the Constitution ... and we're willing to die to protect it".

Shocker exit poll in Slovakia: Progressive Slovakia expected to come first in the election, overtaking Robert Fico’s Smer! Fico’s prospective ally, the nationalist SNS, predicted not to enter parliament, at 4.4%

🚨🧵Absolutely delighted by today’s UK Government announcement to ban cigarettes for the next generation by gradually increasing the smoking age. This is a very welcome move that will protect generations to come from developing lung conditions caused by this deadly addiction.

13 years of Tory chaos. Jonathan Ashworth nails it.

Exclusive: Rishi Sunak has not seen a “conference bounce” in polls despite unveiling a string of high-profile policies Yougov poll for Times finds Labour retains a 21 point lead Ban on cigarette sales very popular; opinion mixed on HS2 & A-levels thetimes.co.uk/article/954a51…

What a result! Congratulations to Labour’s newest MP- @MGShanks. He will be a great servant of his community. To everyone who helped make this happen- the Labour family & the families of Rutherglen & Hamilton W- thank you! We will deliver the change our country so deeply needs.

As Donald Dewar said at Glasgow Garscadden in 1978: "This changes the whole psychological mood of Scottish politics."

The new provost of Eton College in today’s The Telegraph He says most of his friends are Old Etonians - and if he meets somebody who did not go there “I do admit…that it counts against them slightly.” Was there not a candidate with a more open mind?

Poll predicts landslide Labour election victory with 12 cabinet ministers losing their seats theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

SNP Health Secretary ⁦Michael Matheson MSP⁩ ran up nearly £11k in roaming fees from his parliamentary iPad during a week-long family holiday to Morocco - but did not pay the money back from his own pocket 1/3 telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/0…

Rishi Sunak in July 2022 during the leadership campaign... Dominic Cummings "will have absolutely nothing to do with any government that I'm privileged to lead". Months later, after Sunak became PM, Cummings says the two were speaking.

Grim

Heidi Alexander’s appointment as transport secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history - great stat from George Eaton

Breaking news: Jimmy Carter, a no-frills and steel-willed Southern governor who was elected president in 1976, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, according to his son. He was 100 and the oldest living U.S. president of all time. wapo.st/3ZU3Q1M

The current polls really aren’t that bad for Labour. They’re still on top after 7 months, and the right is split in an electoral system that punishes division. No predictions and so much time for things to change, but my view is that as of now Labour is on course for reelection.

Action, not just words. Britain stands with Ukraine, today and always 🇬🇧🇺🇦

London. A meaningful and warm meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer. During our talks, we discussed the challenges facing Ukraine and all of Europe, coordination with partners, concrete steps to strengthen Ukraine’s position, and ending the war with a just peace, along with

Great journalism. So many at fault here. There needs to be accountability. “Walk-in degrees, sham students and a giant university fraud scandal” thetimes.com/article/2ea143…

Absolutely incredible. The Trump admin accidentally adds the editor of the Atlantic to a Signal group. Then Pete Hegseth sends him details of the US strikes on Yemen hours ahead of time incl. "precise information about weapons packages, targets & timing" theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Those arguing that a lower US tariff on UK than EU vindicates Brexit should recall that the costs of Brexit to UK trade and economy are much greater than the value of the US tariff differential.