EXC hearing an ex-minister set to seek the 80 names needed to run for Labour leadership if no other hopefuls  come forward by Monday.

#starmer

Andy Burnham has backed calls from Lib Dem MP @JoshBabarinde for ‘Black English’ to be an option on the census.

A moment to note something.

This - and the work on Brand- can’t be replaced by AI, however sophisticated. It can’t be replaced by content creators

It takes teamwork, painstaking quiet work over long period, and the conviction to take on the legal risk.

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Where does power really reside in Whitehall?

Well Antonia Romeo, the Cabinet Secretary, is delivering a speech tonight in the urgent case for civil service reform and who should be in the front row?

Andy Burnham and Lou Haigh no less…

Lib Dem MP @_Chris_Coghlan warns of ‘vast evidence of law breaking’ by councils over special needs education
@Independent

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No one was quite sure sure it was going to work until it was live on the telly ▶️ but ofc it did …

Alternative view: without the bravery of the women involved - supported by @RosamundUrwin & @char_wace of the Sunday Times, and @geraldine_mck then of @C4Dispatches but now of our parish - Russell Brand’s crimes may never have come to light.

OBR predicts the UK will "spend £14bn more on debt interest this year", chancellor announces

More on our Budget live blog here

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Last week I wrote this exc on calls from senior Labour figures for Andy Burnham to rule out a coalition w the Greens after the ‘Zionism is racism’ motion.

Today at PMQs he seems to have done just that.

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Interested in PMQs?

Join me and @TVNaga01 to discuss on @bbc5live

Defence sec Wes Streeting has told the defence cttee: “Fundamentally, I think this country and our allies in NATO face a threat of a kind we haven't seen since the end of the Cold War.”

Defence sec Wes Streeting tells @RuthDavidsonPC on Sky when its comes to Trump and Zelensky it is the UK's "role... in this situation is to try and bring our friends back together".

RT @DavidPBMaddox: The 10 year plan to get the UK back in the EU drawn up by @euromove
With polling show overwhelming support to rejoin
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EXCL Andy Burnham is facing calls to rule out any kind of coalition deal with the Greens after ‘Zionism is racism’ motion.

Now Tony Blair has warned Burnham not to enter coalition with the Greens

As fallout from 'Zionism is racism' vote continues

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Full story here 👇

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Quoted by the @Independent tonight in their story about the Greens’ descent into the depths of crankery