Westminster Voting Intention:

LAB: 45% (+2)
CON: 19% (-1)
RFM: 15% (-1)
LDM: 8% (=)
GRN: 7% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via YouGov, 10-11 Apr.
Changes w/ 2-3 Apr.

I have signed this letter on behalf of St Petrock's calling on the Home Secretary to reconsider parts of the #CriminalJusticeBill that would lead to the criminalisation of #RoughSleepers

Crisis Ben Bradshaw Steve Race for Exeter💙💛 Simon Jupp MP

Proof (if ever we need it) that Rishi Sunak was never to be trusted on protecting #LGBT people & delivering on a 6 year old promise to #banconversiontherapy

This rollback on rights is exactly what I predicted when I resigned from Govt #LGBT Advisory Panel
order-order.com/2024/04/09/exc…

Great campaign sessions in Priory, St David’s, & St Thomas wards over the last couple of days in #Exeter .

We have great local candidates in the local elections, standing on a programme that continues to make Exeter a better place to live, work, and bring up a family. #votelabour

Russian propagandists are telling us what they are planning to do: create a massive European crisis by making Ukraine uninhabitable. This can be achieved either through continued bombing, or through brutal occupation, or both.
Listen to them. Take them seriously.

Mrs Thatcher suspended arms sales to Israel in 1982, Tony Blair did so in 2002. Shameful that Sunak hasn’t in 2024. theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Johnsonian levels of shamelessness

Starmer's announcement yesterday for floating wind showed how place-based investment will get regional (and national) economies growing.

Steve Race for Exeter💙💛, PPC for Exeter, showed how this can be done across the UK in his excellent essay from earlier this year:
lcef.co.uk/publications/p…

Public satisfaction with the #NHS lowest ever after 14 years of Conservative Government. When Labour left office in 2010, it was at its highest ever. The Tories have wrecked our NHS &, for this alone, deserve to be ejected from office. bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

Really worthwhile opportunities coming up to take part in this free online training and learn how to support those impacted by domestic abuse - tomorrow (27th March) and 25th April.

yet the farmers are apparently protesting against post-Brexit rules

This is an absolute disgrace. Ministers & #NHS England have given repeated assurances that the new gender identity services for young people would be open in time for the closure of the Tavistock next week. Waiting times are already 7 years! bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

New era of accountability latest.

Rishi Sunak's spokesman says they now won't publish a long-delayed damning report by the sacked independent Chief Inspector of Borders David Neil until one hour after Rishi Sunak sits down today for questions from the Liaison Committee of MPs.

What a total disaster #brexit has been for Britain. As Chris Patten has said: the worst policy mistake ever made. A whole generation, maybe more, robbed of their living standards & freedoms & the U.K. permanently poorer.

Brexit has mullered UK goods trade:
- both imports and exports hit
- down not just with the EU but also rest of the world
But bigger/wider effects than I'd have expected.

The richest Prime Minister we've ever had has spent £1.8 million of taxpayer money on private jet flights. In one year.

Why should we believe the Government's non-announcement on the Chinese cyber-security threat when they have failed to implement the recommendations of the report on Russian interference. My question today

Scott Benton MP has finally done the right thing and resigned. The people of Blackpool South have been in limbo for the past twelve months. The Conservative's inability to do the right thing has cost taxpayers half a million pound on a wasted recall petition. 

Scott has brought…

“This tells you all you need to know about the obsessive campaigns against the National Trust run by opaquely-funded rightwing thinktanks and – in particular, how much they are rooted in reality.” ⁦Absolutely that, Rowan Moore, Observer.