In 1905 a young MP called Winston Churchill abandoned the Conservative Party to join the opposition just before that opposition scored a crushing election win which put it in power for 15 years.
Shortly after that… Churchill rejoined the Conservatives.

A reminder that it is just two days since Rishi Sunak confidently predicted we are heading for a hung parliament twitter.com/AdamBienkov/st…

Ben Houchen, 3rd May: “I could not have delivered the things we’ve delivered in this region without you, prime minister.”

Ben Houchen, 9th May: Rishi Sunak is to blame for Tory 'chaos'.
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“We now give Infosys more than £1m a day”

£1 million A DAY.

£42,000 every hour.

#CorruptPM
#Infosys

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There’s a 2% on Twitter who keep a file on every Tory horror (I am among them) who have qualms about Elphicke. Half of them get the politics of this. All the other 98% will see is the MP for the area most directly affected by small boats crossings laying into the PM on the issue.

“Tory defectors Sir - thousands of em”

Sunak wants us to believe he can govern 67 million disgruntled Britons across 4 angry and impoverished nations, when it's abundantly clear he can't govern 300 of his closest political allies in a single room.

It's ugly but the defection of Elphicke has achieved its objective. It is causing huge damage to the Tory party.

Left: Rishi Sunak, 'I'm proud that the government has overseen a significant fall in poverty, particularly child poverty, since 2010' #PMQs

Right: Independent, 'Unicef steps in to support hungry UK children for first time in its history'

Whilst the Tory press bangs on about Angela Rayner, one of the directors of its property company has been whacked with a £4.5m bill for unpaid VAT on a company he owns which houses sex workers and trafficking victims. goodlaw.social/poh9

Just today as a GP I had two situations of helping unwell patients of mine who need time off work for serious situations. Outsourcing to a separate provider (at a cost to taxpayers) is wrong & I want none of it. Support GP surgeries - we’re independent advocates for our patients

Rishi Sunak boosted Government payments to his wife and father-in-law's company by more than 50% in a single year.

We now give Infosys more than £1m a day.

Blatant corruption.

This is Trump's Christian spiritual advisor.

She left her 1st husband, dumped the 2nd one after cheating on him, then married a member of the rock band Journey, broke into the band's bank account & embezzled 100s of 1000s of $$ after committing fraud and running a Ponzi scheme.

Rishi Sunak's spokesman hails a 'significant fall' in the family members of healthcare workers coming to the UK.

So celebrating making the country an even less attractive place for foreign healthcare workers, at the same time as NHS staff shortages go through the roof.

The WorkWell scheme is another fraudulent load of crap, announced by Mel Stride today it is going to spend £2.5bn to 'Get people back to work'.

98% of this money will be stolen as profit by private companies charging £1000 to 'assess' 1 Disabled Person, for about 20 minutes.

Dr Zoe Williams, 'As a GP, to suggest that somebody who is meeting a person who doesn't just have a mental health condition, or a physical health condition, they have a life, they have a family. Our lives are complicated. The things that dictate whether or not we're able to work…

Must watch interview with Dr Amir Khan GP on NHS waiting lists and what we need to do to #SaveOurNHS

Amir Khan, 'We think the NHS is going to be there in our time of need and sadly that isn't the case for so many people now'

Kate Garraway, '1 in 5 people are putting themselves…

The points Macron makes in this interview came up in several conversations I’ve had over the last few months - when the same points are made by different knowledgable people, I listen. The consensus appears to be that the chance of NATO being drawn into conflict in Europe with…

Could there really be a hung parliament at the next election? 🤔

Rishi Sunak may have seized on research suggesting that if the local results were replicated in a general election, Labour would fall short of majority.

But here’s why I think reading across in this way is hard…