Enjoyed this chat with Ayesha Hazarika and Sam Freedman about what we do Labour Together and why.

- Why the centre-left have struggled in power around the world
- Migration policy
- My Scotland comments
- How to think about the first 100 days.

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🚨OUT NOW WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODS! Sam Freedman and Ayesha Hazarika go behind the scenes with Josh Simons to look at how Labour is preparing for power and whether the party can break the curse facing centre left governments around the world. LISTEN NOW. pod.link/1685159956

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“So, I have always wanted to be put into a medically induced coma.”

Architect: “Say no more”

'Broadcaster Sarah Montague also previously confirmed she had won a £400,000 settlement and an apology from the BBC over unequal treatment. In 2021 the BBC disclosed it had spent more than £1 million on legal fees fighting equal pay and race discrimination cases brought by staff'

Scotland to ditch key climate change target bbc.in/3w79geG

🚨OUT NOW! Sam Freedman and Ayesha Hazarika go behind the scenes with Josh Simons to look at how Labour is preparing for power and whether the party can break the curse facing centre left governments around the world. Oh, and some food based chat... thepowertest.substack.com/p/power-behind…

Always lots of chatter about Labour Together and its influence shaping Labour’s path to power

On this week’s The Power Test, Sam Freedman Ayesha Hazarika lift the bonnet on the org - a driving force behind the Party’s leadership, current thinking & approach to government

Allegations against Mark Menzies raise serious Qs:

- How long have Tories been aware, why no action?
- Why was Menzies allowed to voluntarily relinquish the whip instead of having it removed?
- £000s has allegedly been taken from campaign funds for medical expenses - has it…

Conservative MP Mark Menzies is under investigation by the party over claims about the misuse of funds

#Newsnight

Spotted in a bookstore in the City of London just now…

'The bigger question is what is going on here?'

'Something is going very very wrong.'

Ayesha Hazarika says we must look much further into why an extra 700,000 people have been signed off long-term sick in the last three years.

Lin Mei | Storm Huntley | #StormHuntley

'We'll make you stigmatised and victimised.'

📞 Disabled caller Kerry says far from it being easy to be signed off, you have to be put through the wringer to claim, only to be stereotyped in the media at the end of it all.

Ayesha Hazarika | Storm Huntley | #StormHuntley

Just a reminder that an actual lettuce has done more to stand up to Liz Truss than Rishi Sunak.

NEW: Second government defeat of the day on the Rwanda Bill as Lords vote 266-227 in favour of a motion by crossbench peer Lord Hope calling for an independent monitoring committee to say whether it is a safe country, not the government.

I genuinely don't know how she manages to do it. It's extraordinary. A rare gift.

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