Good to see at least some pushback to Robert Jenrick from ConservativeHome interviewers on students and migration:

“I’d put my money on Trump just off the top of his head issuing an endorsement for Nigel Farage.'

Overlap of the UK and US elections would be 'a bad idea', says Peter Mandelson.

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Onshore wind joins video games, the financial sector and higher education on the list of things that a) England is good at and b) England’s politicians hate twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/s…

Incredible candour from Chris Stark as he steps down - not just on Sunak, but also on impact of some recent climate protests & need for realism over upfront costs & gradual nature of transition - worth watching in full

Today's suggestion by the Prime Minister that people with mental health problems may, in future, have less entitlement to essential benefit payments than people with physical health problems, would be a worrying step backwards.

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After the Tories tweet an advert on the UK’s soft power champions without a single woman on it, Labour tweet this. Maybe both party’s digital teams might want to pause and reflect on the messages they’re sending about half of the electorate.

New: London has a shortage of homes, but it doesn't have a shortage of golf courses.

In fact, London’s 95 golf courses take up more land than the entire borough of Brent.

Here's the case for building on some of them.

samdumitriu.com/p/homes-or-golf

Thrilled to be launching my new book tonight The Policy Institute with Polly Mackenzie, Jonathan Haskel, and Bobby Duffy. There's a livestream if you can't make it in person.

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What I find maddening about the crutch of 'we should be *affordable* homes' is that the reason a special category of subsidised homes are required is because... there's not enough homes, which pushes house prices up!

The Observer asked me for my thoughts on moving from opposition politics to government as part of a piece looking ahead to the (probable) transition ahead.

theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

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The UK Government is considering giving more power to state-funded faith schools, proposing to increase legal discrimination based on religion...

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