Look, I can’t stand Boris Johnson, but this bit from his autobiography is objectively funny.

Spare a thought for the people of Canterbury, stuck with an opposition MP for 7 years, only for her to get into power and then, when she could actually do something for them, leave the party over an issue she didn’t even have enough courage to vote on.

“We are missing Great Britain very much on many issues in the council [of EU ministers],” the diplomat said." Guardian Very nice to read this! The UK would be welcome back in the EU within a few years if it wanted to. Don't believe those who say 'the EU wouldn't want us back' 🤡

We don’t need a weird alt history fantasy to know what Thatcher would have done with oil. Britain was a top 5 global producer and exporter in the 1980s. The Tories wasted the revenues paying for industrial devastation and dole queues as well as supporting an overvalued pound.

“Care and carers must not be forgotten and ignored any longer.” Ed Davey on why he chose to publicly tell his care story this year.

This a talker.. Maternity pay is “excessive” and people should exercise “more personal responsibility”, Kemi Badenoch has said. In an interview with Times Radio, the Conservative leadership contender and shadow communities secretary appeared to criticise statutory maternity pay

Everything in that deranged letter of hers, with the exception of the winter fuel allowance, was the case before the election: antisemitism, Diane Abbott, the two child benefit limit, even Starmer's freebies. But of course, if she'd stood as an independent, she'd have lost.

Today's Conservative Party: "Immigration is too high" "But our population is ageing, we need immigration" "Nah, women need to have more kids" "And we should encourage mums to stay at home to look after their kids" "Yeah and slash maternity pay"

There was a time when cholera was rampant and people were having more babies then as well Kemi

You can only put forward “maternity pay is too generous” as a policy if the electorate you are hoping will make you the next Tory leader contains somewhere between few and no women of childbearing age.

Not sure my neighbouring Conservative MP grasps the environmental disaster that is happening to our rivers. The utterly failed Tory experiment of privatising our water industry has led to an environmental & nature crisis as our rivers literally die. It's not just about swimmers!

It's would be a lot easier to scrutinise the Labour government if the press could stop writing stories about things that don't matter

Unpaid carers are the backbone of Britain’s social care system. Our plan is simple: Give carers the financial and emotional support they need to care for their loved ones while living their own lives to the fullest.

Every time a Conservative MP is rattled by the existence of the Lib Dems, we grow 10% stronger in their constituency and their constituency alone

Good to see that the leading Conservative leadership contender is bringing them back to the centre ground with such sensible policies as **checks notes** cutting maternity pay… 🤦🏻‍♂️

I highly encourage Tories to keep fighting culture wars - I promise, it'll pay huge dividends in their remaining Shire/Blue wall seats (Dividends for Lib Dems, that is)...

"How dare you repeat the words I actually said"

“Maternity pay varies, depending on who you work for. But statutory maternity pay is a function of tax, tax comes from people who are working. We’re taking from one group of people and giving to another. This, in my view, is excessive”. Sorry. What is the debate here. These are

How dare you quote her actual words!

You did say it though, Kemi - we all heard you.