Buying honours has been illegal since Lloyd George hawked them a century ago, so big-money donors to the Conservatives are gonged not for largesse but 'political service' as treasurer to the party. Or, in the case of £5.6m donor Sir Mohamed Mansour, knighted in Rishi Sunak's…

A key factor was that the Conservatives managed to increase their vote share in Cambridge from last time; while in Peterborough there was more of a swing to the Lib Dems.

Breaking: A second legal challenge has been launched against the latest stage of the Rwanda plan

Asylum Aid is challenging the Safety of Rwanda policy, published on 29 April, arguing it 'fundamentally misunderstands the Act, and seeks to undermine the will of the Parliament'

Send a complaint letter about DWP breaching the pre local election purdah with the PIP consultation to Darren Tierney Director General, Propriety & Ethics [email protected] Share the following template with your followers: docs.google.com/document/d/1ZI…

After I threatened to sue them, the Tories changed their tune and came clean about the third parties they were sharing my data with.

And it's 🤯. glplive.org/xbo

The government argued, when making their visa changes, that not allowing care workers to bring dependents would only cause a drop in dependents, not care workers.

First month suggests that's very much not true and, on their own analysis, is a big problem.

NEW | Our 2024 local election forecast:

Net change in council seats for...
-478 | Conservative
+273 | Labour
+129 | Lib Dem
+52 | Greeen
+24 | Other

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Boris Johnson said in 2004 that he would eat his ID at a polling station in protest if the law ever required it.

In 2022, he passed a law requiring ID to vote and dismissed criticism it would stop people voting.

In 2024, he forgot his ID when trying to vote and was turned away.

Dear Boris Johnson - if you’ve had a problem with Voter Suppression from the measures introduced by the Government of Boris Johnson, please do contact us a [email protected] We’ll document your case and look for answers from the Electoral Commission

Sending the first 300 migrants to Rwanda costs £1.8m each. To put that in context, school funding is around £7,600 per child per year. So the cost of sending one migrant to Rwanda would get 234 children education for a year. Is that a good use of money?

Exclusive: former prime minister Gordon Brown has written to the Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley calling for a second criminal phone-hacking investigation into News Group Newspapers, namely into the alleged “destruction of evidence by the organisation and the cover up that…

Hoist on own petard - #VoterID is voter suppression straight out of US Far Right playbook.

Just heard of voter initially rejected on basis name on electoral roll not exactly same as passport.

#democracy - it would be a good idea
theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

Susan Hall AM How is that, then?
You lost your purse then claimed it was stolen before it was returned. It sounds like your lucky #SadiqKhan is in charge, as people are so honest.

Sensational line from Sky News on Boris Johnson being turned away today for not bringing acceptable photo ID:

“Polling station staff were forced to turn the former prime minister after he initially failed to comply with legislation he introduced while he was in Downing Street.”

Too many of them obviously don't vote tory..

Minister ‘sorry’ as veterans find ID cards not valid for English elections theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

'Adam and Eve did it and so can we!'

#Rwanda BOUNCE LATEST:

#Conservatives are on 18% in the latest YouGov poll for The Times.

EIGHTEEN PERCENT!

Keep banging on about #AngelaRayner , .(((Dan Hodges))) —you're obviously having a huge impact!

I won't be happy until Cons are in single digits, as that's all they deserve.

Just voted. Fortunately my Irish passport was accepted as ID.