Food & drink exports down, car exports down & too many SMEs having simply stopped exporting to Europe, yet another Trade SoS @kemibadenoch is refusing to try & tackle the barriers to trading with European markets which her party’s poor trade deal with the EU has caused.

This is brilliant & incredibly relevant to the now. On a much less serious note, I wonder whether a few modern day racist bigots with newspaper columns & TV slots have been deliberately aping Enoch Powell's appearance...

As we face the biggest attack on living standards in decades - all while the rich get richer - the Tories are up to their usual trick of scapegoating migrants to deflect the blame from the mess they've created.

Our response must be: No to scapegoating. No to cuts. Tax the rich.

My mother and father invaded Britain to save lives in the NHS as a Surgeon and GP in 1985 🤷🏽‍♀️

BoE gov Andrew Bailey tells Channel 4 News “I don't really think that is the case” that markets meltdown was due to global factors.
 
“Certainly, global markets have had shocks this year, we've had common shocks, Ukraine would be an example, but this was a particularly UK issue.”

NEW: Interest rates rise to 3%.

Families now face higher mortgages and more anxiety after months of economic chaos.

Today’s recession warning lays bare how 12 years of the Tories have weakened our economy, left us exposed to shocks, with falling living standards & low growth.

The Home Secretary arriving by military helicopter in war-torn <checks notes> Kent.

67 miles from London. Takes 1h11m to get there by train, at a cost of £11.30.

And here it comes…neglect the health service and then call the private sector in to “save it”.

Firstly, it’s not the NHS that needs saving. It’s people! People are dying and suffering.

Secondly, the NHS is not failing, it’s being failed.

We need saving from this government!

Despite a critical shortage of doctors, onerous visa rules are acting as an unnecessary barrier to many GP trainees working in the UK.

Thanks to Matt Warman MP for raising our concerns in Parliament yesterday

The really grim news is that the Bank of England expects the UK to be in recession from mid this year all the way through to mid 2024. Dire. And then it expects growth to pick up only to an annualized anaemic rate if 0.75%. Really dire. And like to be made worse by Hunt’s…

EXCL: A gay man in Qatar reveals he was lured to a hotel room through a dating app, and when he arrived Qatari officials were there waiting for him. They raped him one by one, arrested him and deported him. And he’s not alone. LGBT people are being hunted. inews.co.uk/news/qatar-off…

Are NHS England now joint data controller for GP Records: a 🧵 1/6

What does the ICO - Information Commissioner's Office have to say about this?
Disappointed that again, GPs just have to take the consequences of a poorly thought out and possibly illegal move from NHSE, putting everything at risk.
Huge opportunity for General Practice to prove their worth no?