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Jon Tonge retweeted
Despite her senior colleagues downplaying the chances of Carla Lockhart leaving, she appears to be preparing to walk over Drumcree. Almost a decade ago, her party had 10 MPs. It now has half that number. And if 5 becomes 4, the DUP enters the danger zone.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comme…
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NEW headline voting intention from Ipsos
📊Labour on 32% with a lead of +8 – the largest Labour lead Ipsos have recorded this parliament
📊Conservatives take second place the first time since June 2025
📊Reform UK down 3 points and Greens down 5
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DUP MP Carla Lockhart has quit her position as a party officer. The Upper Bann politician’s resignation could be the start of a chain of events leading to her resignation from the DUP.
✍️: @SuzyJourno
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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We've added new shadings for each party in all our maps, here you can see where our Nowcast thinks the NI parties will get their votes in May.
SF, DUP, AP, UUP
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‼️ Labour HOLD Holborn and St Pancras
Labour: 45.0% (-3.9)
Green: 32.7% (+22.3)
Conservative: 7.0% (-0.2)
Reform: 5.9% (-0.2)
Liberal Democrats: 3.4% (-2.4)
Restore: 2.5% (+2.5)
Workers: 1.1% (+1.1)
Jon Tonge retweeted
Pledges from Kemi Badenoch:
* Halve NICs for under 25s to help young people get work
*Half of spending cuts will go on cutting deficit
*Defence spending - including Britannia Shield
*50,000 new prison places
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🚨 WATCH: Kemi Badenoch accuses Reform UK of debating "whether my mixed race children are English"
"I don't want to explain to my son when we're watching our brilliant English team play football that some people don't think that black players are English"
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For election reform needs; how different uk electoral systems would transform party competition. theguardian.com/politics/ng-…
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🚨 Westminster Voting Intention:
🌹 LAB: 29% (+2)
➡️ REF: 23% (-1)
🌳 CON: 19% (-2)
🔶️ LDEM: 9% (-2)
🟢 GRN: 9% (+2)
🟣 RSB: 2% (=)
From @Survation
From 29th September
Changes with 23rd September
Jon Tonge retweeted
Burnham's speech was delivered by a leader who believes in himself - and more importantly, the rest of us too, writes Andrew Marr lbc.co.uk/article/burnhams-s…
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Quite struck by the lack of reference to "the Tories" or "Nigel Farage" in this conference speech by Andy Burnham
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% who think each of the following should be run in the public sector
Police: 89%
Armed forces: 86%
NHS: 86%
Schools: 83%
Water companies: 82%
Railway companies: 76%
Royal Mail: 76%
Energy companies: 70%
Bus companies: 67%
Universities: 63%
BBC: 62%
Internet/phone providers: 38%
Banks: 31%
Airlines: 20%
Jon Tonge retweeted
Burnham's speech has gone down very well among MPs in the Socialist Campaign Group.
Its chair, Rebecca Long-Bailey, joked at a rally this evening: "What a day it's been. We're even considering disbanding the SCG. [We] got a lot of socialism in Andy's speech."
Jon Tonge retweeted
Just watched the speech in full. One of the best, and most powerfully delivered, by a British politician in a very long time. If he can deliver on his passion and promises, Burnham could be a transformative Prime Minister. But it’s a big ‘if’ …
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I'm often very critical of leaders' speeches at coconferences. But that was superb by Burnham - full of ideas & policy, inspirational & very emotional, honest & risky. Bold on social care, electoral reform & EU. Yet hard to see sums adding up. Memorable & maybe historic.
Jon Tonge retweeted
He doesn’t have all the means to bring it about, but so far this speech is the most comprehensive case for social and economic democracy we’ve heard from a Labour PM in the last 40 years. It’s significant because Burnham is the first Labour PM to entirely and avowedly say he wants to break with the Thatcher settlement.
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Burnham promises a new politics. He does not want any party to govern with less than 30% of the vote. So he announces a new national commission on electoral reform. He secures another standing ovation
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UK PM Andy Burnham says he will adjust triple lock pension from April 2030 to help fund new social care service bbc.in/4rIXT5m
Jon Tonge retweeted
Enough is enough.
For years, people have been expected to put up with Avanti’s cancellations, delays, overcrowding, and a service that has failed them time and time again.
So my Labour government is bringing Avanti West Coast into public ownership at the earliest opportunity in March next year.
That means passengers, not shareholders, will come first.
More investment, fewer delays, and a renewed focus on getting the basics right.
We're putting essential services back in public hands and building a railway that actually works for the people who use it.