To hear the 13 year old victim of this morning’s appalling attack in Ilford has died is heartbreaking.

I send my heartfelt condolences to the family.

This will be an incredibly challenging time for the local community and my thoughts remain with all those affected.

There’s no place for extremism in our country.

We’re going to stop those who want to spread hate coming to our shores.

Our new taskforce will identify hate preachers overseas, and block them from preaching their vile ideologies in the UK.

🇬🇧🇹🇷We have formally signed a historic deal for Airbus to provide 220 aircraft for Turkish Airlines.
 
This deal is worth💷billions to the UK economy and will support thousands of manufacturing jobs across the UK - a major win for the UK's aerospace sector. 🦾✈️

🚨 New Onward research🚨

Why are we struggling to be a science superpower? The answer is at the frontier.

Future Frontiers - new research from Anastasia Bektimirova & me - explains why Britain is struggling to build an edge.

Subscribe to new substack! sciencesuperpower.substack.com/p/why-britain-…

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So good to see major e-sports event ESL One in Brum - and it’s just the start 🎮

We’re using some of the £70m Commonwealth Games underspend I secured from Government to bring more big events - and visitors - to the West Midlands 🤝🏻

📸BBC News

Amazing day ⁦JCA Adventure⁩ Condover. So many skills learnt but most importantly, so much fun had #SuASEngage

⛵️ Today, The Queen hosted the ‘Maiden’ yacht crew at Clarence House to congratulate them on their unprecedented win of the Ocean Globe Race, becoming the first ever all-female crew to win an around-the-world yacht race.

Read more here: royal.uk/news-and-activ…

NEW 🗳️YouGov polling 🗳️

West Midlands Mayoral Election
Andy Street, Conservative41%
Richard Parker, Labour39%
Elaine Williams, Reform UK9%
Siobhan Harper-Nunes, Green6%
Akhmed Yakoob, Independent3%
Sunny Virk, Liberal Democrat2%
YouGov say this makes it too close to call

Tees…

Zehra has demonstrated what can be achieved by a combination of dedication and determination. I’m so pleased you have been rightly recognised my friend! Zehra Zaidi

This Thursday’s election is a critical moment for the West Midlands.

My plan for the region is ambitious, backed by financial competence, that will deliver for citizens.

Now more than ever it’s important the region has a leader that can be trusted to deliver at the right price.

A new crazy spy investigation coming out tomorrow.

Winds of Yawanawa!!!

This comment by Billy Bragg perfectly sums up what left wing women have taken from left wing men over the last few years. The problem isn’t whether Julie Bindel and I are correct on the issues, but that certain right-wingers agree with us.

If you’ve spent any time at all on the…

Sunak can at least point to other countries following his lead: Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission chief, has spoken in support of new migration reforms that would involve deporting people to third countries for asylum processing

spectator.co.uk/article/kemi-a…

A very wet morning on DofE as our year 10 students get ready for day 2 of their expedition @AlcesteAcademy

Condemning the Attacks on Civilians and Energy Infrastructure in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region 
state.gov/condemning-the…

Today is World Sculpture Day. ‘The Seventh Tree’ is a sculpture by student, Jacob Eaves, which was unveiled at KES in May last year to commemorate the seven decade reign of the Late Queen Elizabeth II.

May Sir Roger Scruton rest in peace. ❤️