Left: Robert Jenrick says the £22 billion black hole is Rachel Reeves's and Keir Starmer's fault Right: The OBR however are investigating Jeremy Hunt for the £22 billion black hole

So … Tories knowingly overspent on departmental budgets, covered it up, called an election and ran away from the problem. Confirmed by the independent Institute for Financial Studies. bbc.com/news/articles/…

If Starmer banning smoking means that I can walk into any pub with a cast-iron guarantee that Nigel Farage won't ever be in there too... I'M IN!

Hi Tories, you do know your manifesto commitment was to ban all smoking by anyone born after 2009 and that Sunak praised this as a world-leading initiative that would ‘save more lives than any other decision we could take’. You know that, yes?

Lord Eric Pickles at the Grenfell Inquiry "I have changed my schedule to fit this in, but I"m missing important lunches to do it." He was head of fire safety when Grenfell burned, and he thinks he is too important to be bothered by an inquiry. He should be before a judge.

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And about bloody time too. theguardian.com/politics/artic…

So if a pensioner has to answer 243 questions to get pension credit payments how many questions did Michelle Mone have to answer to get over £20 million for unusable PPE?

A reminder that Nigel Farage was paid for repeated appearances on Russia Today before it was banned in the UK, and even held talks about acting as a roving reporter for the channel during the 2016 US presidential election

NEWS French Cladding company boss, who was named over 100 times in report, denies contributing to Grenfell tragedy Sickening All public sector contracts in future need additional new laws attached to them & additional contractual obligations Thoughts? bbc.com/news/articles/…

The very fact that we can’t know why Charlotte Owen is a peer means there’s every reason why we should know.

Germany is not adopting the UK's failed Rwanda plan, says its ambassador in London. Well, who knew? Anyone with more than half a brain cell. standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

Charlotte Owen, Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge, has mildly piqued my interest. Only because I want to know how a person who has achieved the full sum of f*ck all has a peerage. 😯 #ToriesAreOut #ToriesAreFinished #BorisJohnson #HouseOfLords

Excellent article on Charlotte Owen again given another job by Johnson in a start up company which he is one of the directors of. she also claims a lot of expenses in the first three months of 2024, Charlotte claimed an average in attendance fees of £5,309 a month,or £64k a year

First-class stamp to rise by another 30p as Royal Mail fails to meet delivery targets. 1st class stamp price £1.65; 2nd class 85p. When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p Benefit of privatisation - Higher prices for worst service. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

This #ToriesAreOut #StarmerIsPM64 #farrightfails #TopTierKeir

Great to meet up with Chris Vince MP and watch Harlow Town FC at home to Barkingside. A wonderful family atmosphere, good football and a comfortable 4-0 win.