This is a complete car crash for Kemi Badenoch . She sounds as tin eared as Corbyn and many Greens in her defence of “rehabilitated” antisemites #R4today

Is it me or does this America’s Cup chap sound a bit patronising ? “we are mandated to have a lady on the team and she’s actually a good sailor” 🤦. #R4today

I hope Kemi Badenoch listens to the brilliant Luciana Berger. It seems extraordinary that she will allow a convicted neo-Nazi membership of the Tories, but not centrists and one nation Tories like Gavin Barwell. #R4today

Reform & Restore supporters (and indeed some right wing Tories) absolutely salivating with delight this morning at Yusuf’s plan to declare war on France and drown unarmed civilians . Nasty #R4today

Mohamed Ziauddin Yusuf, Farage’s unelected “Shaddow Home Secretary” solution to the small boat problem (that his colleagues Braverman & Jenrick failed to solve), seems to be to declare war on France and order Royal Navy captains to murder unarmed civilians. These are not serious people #r4today

Sainsbury’s bought Argos for £1.4 billion, they are now flogging it for £120 million #R4today Sainsbury’s sells Argos for a ‘knock-down’ price of £120m www.thetimes.com/article/d792...

Sainsbury’s sells Argos for a ‘knock-down’ price of £120m

Britain’s second-largest supermarket offloads the troubled business to retail veterans for a fraction of the £1.4 billion it paid a decade ago

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Populist snake oil, whether of the hard left Polanski or hard right Faragist brand, mercifully seems to be in decline 👍 #R4today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Burnham bounce is eclipsing the Green surge – and Zack Polanski’s radical hope is being tested | Gaby Hinsliff

The new PM is enjoying a honeymoon period but the Greens have the freedom to say whatever Labour won’t, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Disposable BBQs are a major, yet preventable, fire risk. Other picnics are a better bet.

Wildfires: why disposable BBQs are being banned from some parks and beaches

Disposable BBQs are a major, yet preventable, fire risk. Other picnics are a better bet.

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49,000 illegal migrants crossing into Spain’s territory of Ceuta in 24 hours certainly puts our own “small boats crisis” into perspective #R4today

🚨 More accusations against Farage breaking now from the brilliant Pogrund of The Times #BBCpm

If I were a Green supporter (I’m obviously not), I’d be absolutely furious that Polanski has allowed Farage, Braverman & Yusuf to occupy the moral high ground on this . Can’t see him not having to resign . #R4today

Louise Casey is enormously impressive. Very interesting what she had to say on Welfare too . There are many disabled people who need much more financial support and many who aren’t severely disabled who should not receive support #R4today

🚨Crisis grows for Polanski and his Green Party as police investigate “incitement to murder” charge. #R4today #BBCbreakfast #Skynews www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Polanski crisis deepens as he faces probe in Farage 'incitement to murder' storm

Mounting pressure on Green leader over controversial Instagram post as Met Police ‘conduct enquiries’

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Wall to wall media coverage this am of Polanski’s guillotine post . Looks like he might have to resign, although Labour & LibDems probably prefer to keep the appalling man in post as he’s become a big liability for Greens . Interesting to see if he is arrested this week #r4today #BBCBreakfast

All very admirable that Burnham wants to fix social care, reform council tax/stamp duty, reform welfare etc etc. The priority MUST however be defence, which is going to cost billions. Real danger that he takes on too much, too soon, particularly with a general election 2/3 years away #R4today

Under Polanski, the Greens have become even more extremist than the absolute worst of the Corbyn Cult . Greens face backlash over motion against IRGC ban and Iran sanctions www.thetimes.com/article/679d...

Greens face backlash over motion against IRGC ban and Iran sanctions

A conference motion tabled by a party commentator sparks anger from Labour and Tory MPs following IRGC-linked attacks in the UK

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Wes Streeting yet again demonstrating why he is one of the brightest and best Ministers in this Government . Outstanding communicator too. #bbclaurak #TrevorPhillips

More smart politics at relatively low cost to the Treasury #R4today John Healey vows those on state pension alone will not pay income tax www.thetimes.com/article/8841...

John Healey vows those on state pension alone will not pay income tax

The chancellor committed that pensioners with no additional earnings will not be caught by frozen allowances

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I try to give Angela Rayner the benefit of the doubt and listen to what she is actually saying, rather than how she says it. She is however singularly unimpressive. Big mistake bringing her back . Woeful #R4today

Excellent ! Get on with it #R4today Andy Burnham ready to scale up oil and gas drilling in North Sea www.thetimes.com/article/b79c...

Andy Burnham ready to scale up oil and gas drilling in North Sea

Industry sources expect swift rulings on Rosebank and Jackdaw as the prime minister seeks to ease cost-of-living pressures this winter

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Jake Richards excellent on #CathyNewman #SkyNews . Ministers rightly seem to be taking a much more robust line with the media under Burnham 👊👍

Brent Crude now within touching distance of $100 #R4today

Good for business, growth and smart politics #R4today www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Business rates to be cut by 20% for England pubs, clubs and music venues

No 10 announces reprieve after Andy Burnham previously pledged to raise tax from e-commerce warehouses and channel it to cutting hospitality sector’s bills

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This is what integrity looks like . Burnham needs to stop messing about with VAT on electric bills and £2 busses and fund defence properly . If that means cutting welfare, so be it . #R4today www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Al Carns declines return to government as defence funding ‘has not been settled’

Ex-defence minister says he will keep arguing for greater resources from backbenches

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I realise that Kemi wants the Tories to appear “relevant” as Burnham forms his new Govt, but sending out bumbling old fool Mel Stride to waffle on for 5 minutes on the Today prog without actually saying anything, not doing her party any favours #R4today

The universal VAT cut on electricity will cost £850 million (as well as being unfunded) . Most of us wont even notice the 85p a week it will save us . Spend it on extra weapons for our military (& maybe a bit of help for the really poor in society), not a discount we don’t need #R4today

Darren Jones was one of the brightest and best in Keir’s Cabinet and is an outstanding communicator. Daft of Burnham to make an enemy of him #R4today

Thank goodness they have finally stopped that idiot Steve Bray from making a nuisance of himself and disrupting the PM . He started off well ten years ago but dramatically overstayed his welcome

Very notable that it’s always Kinnock, rather than Blair or Brown who is always on the BBC to praise Burnham. Unsurprising I guess when Burnham constantly trashes Blair, Brown & Starmer as part of the “40 years of failed neoliberalism” bo**ocks . #R4today

The Labour hard left can’t help themselves. Threatening a revolt against Burnham before he even becomes PM 🙄. #R4today #BBCbreakfast Andy Burnham faces left-wing revolt if Shabana Mahmood made chancellor www.thetimes.com/article/065a...

Andy Burnham faces left-wing revolt if Shabana Mahmood made chancellor

Labour is divided by the ‘bizarre’ plan to choose the home secretary over Ed Miliband as questions swirl over her views on the economy

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