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The Barbados government has halted plans to buy a £3m former plantation from a Tory MP whose family profited from slavery.

Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, owns land that was operated as a sugar plantation by his ancestors in the 17th century.
independent.co.uk/world/barbados…

🚨🚨'In today's let me continue to be incredibly stupid': The flag is also Council of Europe's flag of which the UK is a member. The flag is also the Council of Europe's flag of which the UK is a member. The flag is also the Council of Europe's flag of which the UK is a member.👇

Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary says he would “happily” offer Rwanda deportation flights from the UK if he had the available aircraft bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @bbgequality

The Rwanda policy will not work.

And it's set to cost more than half a billion pounds.

Absolutely disgusting comments from Reform UK deputy leader Ben Habib
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Susan Hall is trending today. But not for a good reason.

Last year we exposed Susan Hall for liking posts supporting infamous, racist politician Enoch Powell on social media.

Awful news coming out of Ammanford. Our thoughts are with all the students, teachers and staff affected.

Labour's Sarah Jones points out Tory London mayoral candidate Susan Hall has promoted Islamophobic tropes, endorsed the beliefs of Enoch Powell, and claimed the Black community has a problem with crime.

Oliver Dowden says she's misrepresenting Hall's views.

Here's the evidence.

Oliver Dowden says claims by Labour's Sarah Jones that Tory Mayoral candidate Susan Hall said the black community has a problem with crime do not 'correctly represent' her views.

Anyway, here's that quote from Susan Hall expressing exactly those views:

🔥In the West Midlands, mayor Andy Street has used his multimillion-pound housing budget to build just 46 social homes in 8 years.

'That's almost as many as the Chancellor's property portfolio.'

Angela Rayner 🌹 at #PMQs 👇

Fiery exchange between Rayner & Dowden at #PMQs .

Nearly a MILLION families are at risk of homelessness due to the Tories' failure to ban this cruel practice.

'Instead of obsessing over my house, when will he get a grip & show the same obsession with ending no-fault evictions?'

Two-thirds of British voters say the country is on the wrong track.

NHS waiting list targets haven’t been met since 2016.

Prisons are at or over capacity, depending on who’s counting.

Trend growth has nearly halved since the 2008 crash.

RT if you want a #GeneralElectionNow

It's only a '£75 billion increase' over 6 years if you assume that spending would otherwise have been frozen in cash terms for 6 years - i.e. only if the government was, until today, planning to breach its NATO commitments. This is such an unhelpful way to present the figures.

Seeing as Ofcom’s in the news, let’s revisit this fantastic reply given by Lord Smith of Clifton about the regulators 👇 (our Naomi Smith’s dad)

My father died exactly three years ago. With the chatter about Ofcom today I'm reminded of this GLORIOUS reply he made in 2015 about the regulators hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2015-03-… #hansard

Refugee Farsad on the Today programme says even if the Rwanda plan does deter a few hundred asylum seekers, it's not the way to treat people in such a desperate position.

'If we treat them with kindness, that's the British spirit... that's the way I've been treated.'

This is the reality for many asylum seekers. They're lied to by smugglers and only forced onto small boats at the last moment.

Listen to Farsad's story from this morning's Today programme 👇

10/10 new front cover from Private Eye Magazine 👏

David Cameron blames the Rwanda plan on Brexit.

Says a returns agreement with France is 'not available at the moment'. 🤦‍♂️

Anushka Asthana Peston

So, Nigel Farage - one of the founders & owners of Reform UK - can present an “impartial” programme on a TV “news” channel during the general election according to the broadcasting regulator @ofcom. The leader of the party Richard Tice 🇬🇧 & its only MP Lee Anderson MP can