'Thames Water customers shouldn’t pay for its mistakes, says Jeremy Hunt.'

Nor should Southern Water's customers, nor Anglian Water's customers, nor Yorkshire Water 💧's customers, nor Affinity Water 🦆's customers, nor Severn Trent's customers, and on, and on...

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How a start-up boss now pursued by his investors gained access to Sunak ft.com/content/30aa8b… via @ft

This latest investigation by Jim Pickard 🐋 leaves one simple question: if Rishi Sunak sent a hand-written letter to Akhil Tripathi last May thanking him for his private jet donation, why did he remove Tripathi's name as the source of that donation in June? ft.com/content/30aa8b…

Morning

The Conservative Party, after 8 years of forcing an unworkable Brexit on us, still don’t understand what they voted for, what the consequences of Brexit will be & most importantly, whose fault it is for the mess we find ourselves in,

Badenoch lying that the EU trade restrictions were in “retaliation” for Britain leaving. They apply to all non-members depending on their EU trade deal. The current arrangement is what Johnson, Sunak, Gove, Frost etc signed us up to and they also lied about the consequences.

This might be the single dodgiest parliamentary behaviour story I’ve ever read. It’s just *all* red flag.
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Sorry what?

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New YouGov poll puts Labour back up to 45%, with the Tories slipping back to 19%, their joint-lowest figure since March and the aftermath of the Truss mini-Budget.

Reform just 4 points back on 15%.

Not much evidence of the Angela Rayner stuff cutting through ...

Spotted in a bookstore in the City of London just now…

'Why won't you say?' asks Sky's Beth Rigby

Conservative James Daly MP refuses to answer multiple times when asked what he thinks Angela Rayner has done wrong, despite being the person who contacted the police about her.

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Here’s what we are reading today:

161 Ukrainian children that were abducted to Russia and Belarus were found in Germany with the help of German law enforcement agencies, says Ivan Vyhivskyi, the Chief of the National Police of Ukraine.

Stand against this silent war against Iranian women

I call on international community and the global feminist movement to urgently respond to the escalating crisis in Iran, where women are enduring relentless persecution by the morality police.
Women are being subjected to…

This is today in Iran.
To all anti-war activists in the West who stand with the Islamic regime: Are you truly okay with this ongoing tragedy? Every single day, women get bitten up by morality police in the streets. So, do you condone the Iranian regime’s declaration of war…

Massive Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv. At least nine civilians declared dead and more under the rubble of buildings. Ukraine has essentially run out of air defenses because of the cutoff in American aid, and Russia is taking advantage of this strategic…

'Seven in ten major sewage leaks last year were caused by leaky pipes or a lack of treatment works to cope with demand.'

What we already knew, water companies lie. Rain they say, lack of investment, lack of maintenance and greed says the data. 🤬 🤬🤬🤬

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Repeat after me Thames Water 💧 sewage dumping due to groundwater ingress is illegal, sewage dumping due to groundwater ingress is illegal, sewage dumping due to groundwater ingress is illegal...

Wouldn't that be right Environment Agency.

If you’re curious about the editorial rigour applied to Truss’s book, this quote was dubiously attributed to Rothschild in a 1935 by Gertrude Coogan, a Rothschild-obsessed antisemite who claimed “the World is ruled by the International Money Masters”