Dan Poulter is not standing at the next election. For any party. He will dedicate more time to his work as an NHS doctor specialising in mental health. I've already seen a dozen tweets claiming he's defected to somehow save his (23,000 majority) seat.

Nick Boles, Claire Perry O'Neill, Dan Poulter... wonder how many Tory MPs elected in 2010 will be voting Labour next time around

Former health minister defects to Labour and attacks the Conservatives as a “nationalist party of the right”. Direct Con/Lab defections like this are
quite uncommon.

We live in a supposedly free country where journalists should not just disappear, let alone journalists as great as ⁦Sangita Myska⁩. Put her back on air now, ⁦⁦LBC⁩. change.org/p/reinstate-sa…

Taking Back Control 👏🏻

Striking:

“When asked if they would consider voting tactically to secure a change of govt, 32% of Daily Mail readers, 39% of Sun readers, 40% of Express readers and 43% of Telegraph readers said that they were willing to do so”

📊 by Best for Britain
politics.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…

Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary has said he would happily transport Asylum Seeker's to Rwanda.

RT if you would never be using Ryanair again.

Not quite the government line on Rwanda policy 👀

🔥 And there you have it-

Even a majority of Leave voters support the EU’s proposal for a UK-EU Youth Mobility Scheme.

It’s overwhelming.

Both Conservative & Labour are wildly out of touch on UK-EU issues.

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The Ukraine bill passed, as I predicted this morning. $60 billion worth of heavy metal is coming the way of the Russian killing machine. If I were you, Vladimir Putin, I'd dig your bunker that bit deeper. Remember what happened to Gaddafi.

Slava Ukraini!

To be fair to David Cameron and Theresa May they both at least made an effort on mental health, even if the actions didn’t always match the words. Since then the debate and the services have gone backwards and Sunak speech today just the latest depressing chapter in an awful…

Presumably the Conservative plan is to kick this shit show down the road until it becomes Labour’s intractable problem. And by the way, Labour show no sign of having a plan to actually solve it either because they are too frightened of saying the bloody obvious, which is Brexit…

Brexiteers promised again and again that frictionless trade would continue. These expensive border checks - the inevitable consequence of leaving - have already been delayed multiple times and prove what lies were told and what an utter shambles the Government has delivered

Positive news, but why limit this to 18 - 30 year olds?

A return to real free movement for all, which was always conditional, would also open up the EU single market & end some of the Tory Brexit bureaucracy !

theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Absolutely top front page all round. 10/10 no notes.

My dad came over from Sicily & worked as a waiter at The Ritz…

He built a whole life/family here from those starting blocks

Last week,Brexit rules came in taking min visa salary threshold to £38k

Not only does this kill hospitality

It kills the dreams of people like my dad.

Nate White, a British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no…