🚨 NEW: The first Westminster voter intention poll after Rishi Sunak announced a 4 July election

LAB: 44% (+1)
CON: 27% (=)
RFM: 10% (-1)
LDM: 9% (=)
GRN: 5% (-1)
SNP: 3% (+1)

Via More in Common on 22-23 May
Changes with 17-19 May

I am proud to call Huntingdon my home and to stand as The Labour Party's candidate on 4 July #GeneralElection .

This community will always be special to me. It's where I had my British citizenship ceremony back in 2020. It's where I'm now buying my first home. It's where I attend

Classic Sunak bants: launch a general election the day before testimony shows that your killer pandemic-era policy was even more dodgy than first suspected.

Begin slow handclap. 👏 👏 👏
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Bravo. Massively impressive public servant. Deserves all the accolades that come her way. There are great people who work tirelessly on both sides of the House of Commons, whose achievements - sadly - get eclipsed by some of the less honourable members

Ireland has little credibility denying its antisemitism problem while Dublin has a statue devoted to a literal Nazi collaborator.

The Phoenix cinema.

And now Regents Park College.

It's a documentary about the massacre carried out at the Nova festival in October. The cinema is well rid of these two cranks as patrons.

Very sorry to see this criminal damage against my local cinema

Actually speechless at the decision by the BBC to employ Nick Kyrgios as a Wimbledon pundit. The same man who pleaded guilty to assaulting his girlfriend last year, who said of Andrew Tate he was 'speaking facts as usual'. What message does this send BBC? telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2024/05…

They've just changed 'gender critical' to 'transphobic' in the doc on their website with no note or explanation. (i) Have they sent in revised version to OfS? (ii) Do they really mean gender critical when they say transphobic given the document history?

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What on earth is going on here Russell Group. Legitimate speech protected by law being described as unlawful? Have your lawyers been asleep for 3 years?

The employment tribunals in Phoenix v Open University, Meade v Social Work England, and Adams v ERCC have all held that employers/duty-bearers describing mere statements of gender critical/sex realist views as transphobic constitutes unlawful harassment.

#OnThisDay 1970: Daily Mail coverage of the PFLP's attack on an Israeli schoolbus. The victims were from the village of Avivim, a poor, North African (mostly Moroccan) Jewish immigrant community near the Lebanon border

Breaking : The President of the UN General Assembly has called a meeting of the assembly to pay tribute to Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Islamic Republic, or as we Iranians used to call him, the Butcher of Tehran.

Imagine the irony: honoring the man in New York who sent

Let’s get Britain building!

Here’s our plan 👇🏻

Now that the new Hamas footage has come out, I think back to shortly after Oct. 7 when so many compared it to a “slave uprising against slave masters.”

When in history has there been a slave uprising where older men—indoctrinated with jihadist ideologies of global

Russia slammed Kharkiv with missiles today, hitting printing house and killing at least 7. Meanwhile, all Ukraine can do is watch as they prepare for the next strikes. Ukraine must have the right to self-defense with Western-supplied weapons to hit military targets inside Russia.

The Graduate Route stays, with measures focused on targeting abuse and ensuring robust compliance. gov.uk/government/new…

Lord Cameron did not just miss some Union Jacks when he went home early from Albania to hear in person that told Rishi Sunak had decided to being forward his appointment with a firing squad. The FS cut meetings with the President and Chief Special Prosecutor on Anti-Corruption

Keir Starmer talks about a couple he met whose mortgage increase after Liz Truss’s mini budget forced them to choose not to have another child - expect there will be a lot of focus on that.