David Willetts: How to have an honest debate about overseas students and migration conservativehome.com/2024/05/07/dav… via @conhome

been called up as a last minute substitution to chair this top event Institute for Government tomorrow on election comms - sign up here instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/general-…

🗣️ 'Brexit has expanded the size of the British state'.

🇬🇧🇪🇺 Over the weekend Jill Rutter spoke with BBC World Service about our Brexit and the State report.

👉 Download it here ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/brexit…

Best of luck for the future Tony.

So sad that you wasted so much time opposing vital cycle lanes that could help save lives.

I look forward to working with your successor to make the streets in West London safer.

The dynamics between a Starmer government and this lot are going to be fascinating.

Lot of confusion circulating regarding BBC's projected national share. It is not an estimate of parties' GE prospects. It is not a poll either. It is an attempt to estimate how locals result wld look if everyone in GB voted.

Great guide here from Steve Fisher and…

V interesting take on how much specificity its reasonable to expect in climate change plans

.Rishi Sunak harping on about Tees Valley being the key test in his pool clip... well he would, wouldn't he - but mayors bucking national trends is an important indicator of the strength of the mayoral model..

Mayoral accountability hangs on divorcing local vote from national trends

It will be a sign of maturity of the mayoral model if voters decide on local records not national trends, argues Jill Rutter instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/mayora…

Four of the ten metro mayor election results are due today, in four of the more competitive contests. Here's why these matter and what to expect🧵

Matthew Fright Mark D'Arcy Jill Rutter Council Leader I worked for years ago said he wouldn't mind losing an election so much if it meant voters had noticed what he was doing and didn't like it! IIRC in fact he lost because election coincided with scandal stories about senior Cabinet Minister.

🗨️ 'In the short term, however, tensions are likely to escalate between Ireland and the UK.'

Does the UK’s Rwanda policy risk the UK-Ireland relationship?

🚨 Dr Joelle Grogan examines the recent migration row between the UK and Ireland.

ukandeu.ac.uk/does-the-uks-r…

🚨 'The ideas, this time round, felt very similar.'

🗣️ NEW: Georgina Wright analyses Macron's speech on Europe at the Sorbonne last week, arguing that it provided few ideas that weren't in his first Sorbonne speech in 2017.

ukandeu.ac.uk/sorbonne-2-0-m…

Mark D'Arcy Jill Rutter Hopefully the nascent brand recognition (of what is still a quite new tier of govt) means we will see this in many seats. Work by centre for cities showed 74% of people surveyed could name their mayor compared to 43% who could name their MP