2 days left until applications close for a Trustee role with Student Publication Association ⏰

It's a great way to give back and support the next generation of journalists!

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Planning a mini Eurotrip - travelling by train from Rome to Seville at the end of May.

Going through Milan, Monaco, Nice, Barcelona and Madrid.

All recommendations appreciated!

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Exc: Grant Shapps advises Tory candidates - promote yourselves over the party.

Defence sec has rebooted his 'big swingers' research for a private presentation about how to buck the national polls.

thetimes.co.uk/article/promot…

BREAKING 🚨 Pensions minister Paul Maynard found guilty of expenses breaches after inquiry by IPSA following Sunday Times investigation

Blackpool North MP Maynard:

1) used taxpayer funds to 'produce overly political materials promoting the [Conservative] party and his

FWIW, a Tory MP told me today a lot more people in parliament than usual are wearing rainbow lanyards in a show of solidarity...

New schools guidance in full with Aubrey Allegretti

* Schools must not teach children about gender identity

* No ‘explicit’ conversations about sex until children are 13 - including contraception, STIs and abortion

* No sex education for children until age of 9 in primary

Natalie Elphicke is among those MPs to vote for amending the risk based exclusion policy to apply at arrest, not charge.

The motion passed by one vote.

The risk based exclusion policy for MPs has been approved with this important change.

Exc: Tory donor who's firm gave the party money under Rishi Sunak hits out at 'stagnant' economic growth and vows to switch support to Labour.

This caused particular embarassment in govt circles as Puneet Gupta was invited to a Downing Street reception last month.

It was at

Excl: First parliamentary report into birth trauma from Theo Clarke MP finds pregnant women and new mothers being failed by maternity services where good care is “the exception rather than the rule”.

thetimes.co.uk/article/birth-…

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Planning a mini Eurotrip - travelling by train from Rome to Seville at the end of May.

Going through Milan, Monaco, Nice, Barcelona and Madrid.

All recommendations appreciated!

🇮🇹🇲🇨🇫🇷🇪🇸

Serious anger in CCHQ at Elphicke's defection given she was an 80:20 MP granted extra campaign funding/ support to help retain a key Tory-held seat.

A Tory source says it's disappointing that 'generous donations of party member's and supporters have been used for someone that's