After the last budget the average household is £870 a year worse off. Real wages have grown 10 times more slowly than under Labour and taxes are at an all time high. Meanwhile, Council services are collapsing. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-685640…

Keir Starmer has responded to the budget calling the Conservatives the 'Chuckle Brothers of Decline' - a budget that ignores the state of the country and takes with one hand as it gives with the other. Read the speech here: bracknell.laboursites.org/.../budget-202…

Over 100 no-fault evictions in Bracknell Forest since the Government promised to end them 5 years ago. Read more at bracknell.laboursites.org/2024/02/21/ren…

As Chancellor, my priority will be to make working people better off.

Labour will get Britain’s future back.

Weekly spending on items measured in the Consumer Price Index has risen 21% since 2019/20, making household costs £110 a week higher - so families tighten their belts. Less money spent leads to fewer jobs. The perfect recipe for a downward economic spiral.

For a decade, Govt promising to build #WesternRailLink to #Heathrow that would connect 20% of UK population within one interchange of nation’s main port, but not a spade in the ground yet!

This govt sadly has more of a reputation for cancelling, rather than building #rail links.

Just so upset by this. Ant, Dec & ITV platforming a xenophobe who revels in whipping up division & poison. What has this country become?

I've just been expelled from GBNews studio after being invited there to criticise Brian Rose, 2021 London mayoral candidate, & then - when asked why I thought Ofcom should close GBNews down - I said because it's a right wing channel dominated by Tory & Brexit Party politicians

I’m looking for alternative senior leadership arrangements in secondary schools, different to one headteacher, some deputies and assistants. Please contact me if you are a head/SLT member where there may be co- heads, part-time heads, no deputies, or anything unconventional.

BREAKING

After just 24 hours, the government has dropped its commitment to reopen the Leamside Line. It was included yesterday in the initial Network North announcements, now it’s gone.

Roads minister Richard Holden tells me Govt is now just ‘committed to looking into it’.

Deeply shocked. She seemed so nice.

Part 2 of The storm of police resignations looks at resignation rates among different police cohorts, how data is recorded and the responsibility of all National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) to follow the National Leavers Framework if we are to stem growing resignation figures.

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My new book, 'How They Broke Britain', explains how right-wing media and post-Farage Tory politicians conspired to turn their party into a National Front tribute act. Out Nov 2. Link in my bio.

I am deactivating this account; reactivating it occasionally so that I retain the connections I have made beyond my current role for the time that will come after.

#NHS #dentistry is at breaking point.

For too long, the Government has neglected hard-working #dentists and practices; leaving patients without #dental care, forced to perform 'DIY dentistry', or left to seek expensive private treatment.

Healthcare should be accessible to all.

I'm afraid to report that even with unlikely projection of only 46 Tory seats left one of them would be Liz Trusses

The day that racist Tories started targeting care home workers. l-bc.co/3PDnM5h

Unity. Vision. Leadership. That’s what our #railways need.

Instead, we have a litany of failures - a broken system under a broken Government.

Bloody hell. What the f*** is wrong with this man?

I am devastated to hear that Margaret McDonagh, Labour’s first female General Secretary, has passed away.

I know I speak for many when I say I will miss her friendship and wise counsel in the years ahead.