Proud to be voting again in House of Lords to amend the Rwanda Bill. Government defeated again!

Wow, look at Gideon Falter's facial expression at the end when he's been caught out 👀 #C4News

'Today Channel 4 News has seen new exchanges with different officers in different locations'

Police officer, 'I've been told you keep running into the protestors'

Gideon Falter,

“You’ll say I’m a moaning remainer, but of course I am' says Asda chairman and Conservative peer Lord Rose.

'If you look at the stats nobody has convinced anybody that coming out of the EU was the right thing to do.”

The next vote will be after midnight which advantages Tories, many of whom live in London or have second homes in London. Those living elsewhere will need to catch the last train home and miss the vote.

Terror tactics by the govt to subvert parliament.

I don't know how far we peers will push things today. But I hope we simply stop the Bill.

Stephen Kinnock: 'Just let those court documents sink in... the Prime Minister, of the United Kingdom, explicitly instructed the Ministry of Defence & the Home Office to stop assisting Afghans who put their lives on the line for our country... what a betrayal of British values..'

UK gave £12bn support to Ukraine.

£72bn for wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.

In the last decade over £75bn handed to rail companies. Billions more to other companies.

Remind me why 300,000 a year are dying waiting for hospital appointment.
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Morning! The Rwanda Bill is back in Parliament today.

A reminder that no matter what Parliament votes for, we will continue to stand with people seeking safety and we will continue to say STOP THE PLANES.

'We are reasonable people trying to do a reasonable thing,' says Rishi Sunak, who plans to override international law and a decision by the UK's own Supreme Court, in order to deport refugees and victims of modern slavery to a brutal dictatorship

Really Suella Braverman MP you haven’t seen the whole video. It’s just not good enough to say ‘I’ve seen enough’. You can’t just close your eyes to the full facts.

Mishal Husain: You've called for the Met police chief(Mark Rowley) to go... have you seen the whole video involving Gideon Falter?

Suella Braverman: No

MH: I suggest you watch the whole video... as you're basing what you're saying on incomplete information

#r4today

We are all one accident, one illness, one trauma away from being unable to work.

Not everyone has millions in the bank or is married into billions.

If benefits stop after a year people will die.

Dozens of Conservative MPs voted against the smoking ban yesterday, saying that it impinged on our 'freedoms'

What some of them didn't publicly declare, however, is the thousands of pounds worth of hospitality provided to them in advance by Big Tobacco

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Sadiq Khan announces he will make universal free primary school meals permanent if he is re-elected as London mayor.

His Conservative opponent Susan Hall has pledged to scrap the scheme, saying 'there is no such thing as a free meal. People have to pay for it.'

Grant Shapps, whose party has spent weeks suggesting Angela Rayner is a tax-dodging criminal, now says we shouldn't rush to judgement about suspended Conservative MP Mark Menzies

'Just because an accusation is made, or something is written, doesn't mean it is necessarily proven'

A Conservative donor, who paid for private jet flights for Rishi Sunak, has £14 million of his assets frozen due to fraud allegations ft.com/content/c857fc…

So after delaying Brexit-related border checks five times in a row, the government decides to simply... delay turning them on again.

It's almost like being outside the EU isn't quite the fantastic boost to our international trade they told us it would be. ft.com/content/ba1974…

Asked why he failed to take any action on the allegations against Conservative MP Mark Menzies, despite them being reported to his party months before they ever appeared in the press, Rishi Sunk says there's an investigation now underway so he 'can't really comment'.

So to summarise, at the same time as the Conservative party was loudly demanding a police investigation into the sale of Angela Rayner's council house, they were deliberately sitting on serious allegations of fraud against one of their own MPs

According to the merchant banker PM, people cannot be 3 times sicker than they were a decade ago.

A decade which included austerity, a pandemic, a cost of living crisis and an aging population.

However, our doctors say people are 3 times sicker.

Hmmm, who to believe...