Toby

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Welsh man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 exiled for more than half a century. Son of a murdered father and a mother killed by Covid.
Pro: Labour; equality; social mobility; good films; and home cooking!
Anti: fascist; BREXIT; and tutti-frutti ice cream!

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Further to the below, I excluded Con-Ref/Ref-Con one-twos from "incorrect" recommendations & checked third place results instead. With this done, the results become: (Calls, accuracy) getvoting.org: 450, 96% stopthetories.vote: 459, 100% tactical.vote: 508, 98.62% tacticalvote.co.uk: 450, 100%

Yep, very good. The few misses are interesting though. Most (11) of them are where Con and Reform have occupied 1st/2nd places so not necessarily the wrong recommendation, more not being able to get it into second place. If you exclude these Con-Ref one-twos the accuracy ticks up.

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Found a room big enough for all the 2024 Parliamentary Labour Party! So happy to see all my old friends and colleagues, and to meet so many new ones ❤️🌹

Exclusive: 3.2% of those surveyed say they were turned away at least once, with minority ethnic people worse affected. Scrap it! #ukpolitics

Voter ID rule may have stopped 400,000 taking part in UK election, poll suggestswww.theguardian.com Exclusive: 3.2% of those surveyed say they were turned away at least once, with minority ethnic people worse affected

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Happy Monday x

Defence secretary John Healey announced new British military aid package for Ukraine today as he visited Odesa and met with his counterpart Rustem Umerov. Britain will supply 250,000 50-calibre rounds, 10 AS-90 artillery guns, and 90 Brimstone anti-tank missiles, from its own stocks. Slava Ukraini

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Why France Rejecting Nazis Is Bad News For Starmer

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into my veins

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This thread might be of interest tonight and going forward 🇫🇷

People are - rightly - worried about the possibility of an RN government in France. But what about a government made up of the new « Nouveau Front Populaire », the new left electoral grouping? What does NFP say about French foreign and security policy ? Short thread.

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Shock follows shock! Exit poll puts Le Pen’s right wing National Rally in THIRD …behind the left wing NFP and Macron’s Ensemble.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced plans to divert money to a new Border Security Command and also announced an audit of the monies sent to Kigali, as the Labour administration looks to find ways to save or recoup cash committed under the Conservatives.

Government to divert tens of millions from Rwanda plan to new Border Security Commandnews.sky.com New Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced she will be auditing the monies the Conservative government committed to the Rwanda plan, with the aim of recouping or saving portions of it.

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As a Probation Officer, this makes me endlessly happy and optimistic. Years and years of 'lock em all up' policies without a single thought for how we keep people from going back to prison, or what we do when the prisons are full. Very smart appointment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

James Timpson: Why Starmer hired key boss as prisons ministerwww.bbc.co.uk James Timpson has made a name for himself hiring hundreds of former prisoners.

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An important thread

Listening to James Timpson's interview, it is clear that he would like to see a sea-change in sentencing policy. That will not be his remit, but if the new PM supports such a change, I think it would have very significant ramifications for our political culture. Let me explain. /1

Approach made to Nick Boles as Starmer prepares to announce immediate changes to regulations.

Former Tory minister may become Labour’s ‘planning tsar’www.theguardian.com Approach made to Nick Boles as Starmer prepares to announce immediate changes to regulations

Free to read today. Read it while you can!

Starmer says the NHS is broken but he has a plan to fix it. My read for The Sunday Times on just how big a challenge it will be for @wesstreeting and the NHS: www.thetimes.com/article/ba30...

Labour says the NHS is broken. So what are the party’s plans to fix it?www.thetimes.com The new government’s battle to cut waiting lists begins on Monday. Can Sir Keir Starmer and his health secretary, Wes Streeting, provide a cure for the health service?

Long but interesting read about how Labour won, including insight into the ruthless targeting to win seats.

'Gloriously boring': How a ruthlessly efficient Labour machine won the electionwww.politicshome.com How did Labour win its staggering majority of 174? Party insiders take Sienna Rodgers behind the scenes of the campaign, from the ‘professionalised’ HQ to the ruthlessly efficient ground operation

Junior ministers, including old faces, klaxon! 🚨 Former home secretary Jacqui Smith enobled to become higher education minister. Former cabinet minister Douglas Alexander is now a business minister. Ellie Reeves, Rachel Reeves' sister, becomes minister without portfolio and Labour Party chair.

Now I feel old and an underachiever! 😁 Commons youngest member ousted veteran Conservative MP Shailesh Vara by just 39 votes to win North West Cambridgeshire

Labour’s Sam Carling, 22, is first MP to be born in 21st centurywww.theguardian.com Commons youngest member ousted veteran Conservative MP Shailesh Vara by just 39 votes to win North West Cambridgeshire

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The new UK government has the lowest proportion of privately educated cabinet members since 1945, and that's just fine.

Boom. Well done England, and on penalties too! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽👍

If you see this, you have to post a picture from your device without explaining it

Presser was refreshing although it seems the journalists are having kittens about the Timpson appointment and what it could possibly mean in terms of locking people up.

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GB POLLING: HOW YOUNG PEOPLE VOTED How 18-24 year olds voted, according to #LordAshcroft polls: 🔴 Labour: 40% (-16) 🟢 Green Party: 15% (+11) 🔵 Conservatives: 14% (-6) 🟠 Liberal Democrats: 10% (-1) ⚪ Reform UK: 8% (+7) ⚫ Other: 10% (+3) Conducted 4 July 2024. Changes with 2019 general […]

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I am starting to hope Starmer will become braver in government. His appointment of prisons minister was inspired. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/who...

'Only a third of inmates should actually be in jail' - New Prisons Ministerwww.thelondoneconomic.com James Timpson, who has employed a large number of ex-prisoners across his company, has landed a plumb role in the new Labour government.

Very considerate of Keir Starmer to call a cabinet meeting for a Saturday, but not until 11am so all the ministers can have a decent lie-in! 😴

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The key factor is that the rebadged UKIP have only increased their vote slightly in ten years - while they have five MPs this time (including mine, God help us) they came second in FEWER seats this time. Tory incompetence & corruption was a bigger factor than any right-wing shift

There's a Tory/Reform columnist on the radio arguing for proportional representation. Dick.

Had a long sleep after my election all-nighter and feel refreshed. More than that, I feel strangely joyful.

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🎉🎉🎉

Rwanda scheme abolished on first day.

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Sir Patrick Valance appointed in Starmer's government. labourlist.org/2024/07/gene...

Patrick Vallance made a minister in Keir Starmer’s government – LabourListlabourlist.org Sir Patrick Vallance, the former Government Chief Scientific Adviser who regularly appeared on Britain's TV screens for Covid briefings at the height of lockdowns, has…

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A nice progressive move from Labour: apparently James Timpson is being given a peerage and made prisons minister. For non UK folk, his high street chain of key cutting and shoe repair shops has a policy of employing ex-convicts giving them decent jobs to avoid reoffending. It works.