Corbyn on Grenfell:
"I’ll tell you what’s common sense: Don’t put flammable cladding on people’s homes. That’s common sense.
"Don’t close fire stations and don't cut fire fighters. That’s common sense. And don’t ignore residents when they tell you their home is a death trap."
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- Corner shop in Scotland is giving free ‘coronavirus kits’ to people in need in Scotland
- Conservative member at Oliver Dowden event: “I really don’t like the culture war, and I really don’t like all of this anti-woke rhetoric. “Was women suffrage woke? Was universal suffrage woke? Were gay rights woke?"
- Interesting new profile picture at the Home Office
- .@maitlis: “Good evening. Dominic Cummings broke the rules. The country can see that and it’s shocked the government cannot.”00:00
- Tory MP Chris Skidmore: "The reality is that Ulez was a Conservative policy, introduced by Boris Johnson as mayor and recently agreed by this Government to be expanded in May 2020, as part of Covid loans to the mayor...
- George Osborne says austerity was a "consequence of the global financial crash" of 2008. Weird, I thought it was Gordon Brown's fault.
- Ian Blackford says for weeks he's been calling for Boris Johnson to resign at PMQs – only to be met with a "wall of noise" from Tory MPs. "All this time 41 per cent of them have been cheering me on," he adds.
- New Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy spotted at the England game
- EXCLUSIVE Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak pressed ahead with a Universal Credit cut despite government papers warning 300,000 children would be plunged into absolute poverty
- Labour source: “I've never seen Sunak so exercised. That private jet air passenger duty change has really hit home.”
- 💥 Appearing at the Tory conference Andy Burnham says people of Manchester being treated as “second class citizens” over reports Rishi Sunak will axe northern leg of HS2. He says he’s been “shut out” of talks and the decision — in Manchester — will be “remembered as the
- An MP makes an emotional plea to tone down the language - citing death of her friend Jo Cox. The prime minister responds saying “humbug”.
