Home from tonight’s historic @medway_council annual council meeting.

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It was a fantastic #Remembrance Service on Plymouth Hoe today.

Very proud on Remembrance Sunday to be wearing the tie of HMS Eskimo, the ship my Dad was serving on 50 years ago.

RT @JimfromOldham: Today I was honoured to join veterans, uniformed groups, alongside residents in Royton this year for Remembrance Sunday…

Long overdue for me and inspired by @jimrobbins appointment! 👇🏼

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Huge congratulations to the fantastic @jimrobbins in his appointment as new Co-operative Party General Secretary.

His local government experience in particular leading Swindon will make him an outstanding GS following on from Joe Fortune.

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RT @StephenMorganMP: As a city, we must push back against all forms of hate by demonstrating that here in Portsmouth, hate will never win.…

Absolutely superb night at BFI IMAX seeing the brilliant Peter Frampton documentary followed by an excellent Q&A (great to see clips both from Royal Albert Hall gig I was at with Boma & Bromley South station which I’ll be going through later.)
Watch the film if you get the chance

If they couldn’t deliver a Pizza how do you expect them to repair our roads. 🍕

Reform-led Kent has poorer roads than Labour-led Medway.

What a superb evening - thanks to Harinder, Keshav & the whole Canteen Crew for the invite to the preview night.

If you love Gurkha Fire, loved Dylan’s or just want to try something so incredibly tasty on Chatham High Street get yourself down to Canteen.

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Really enjoyed it! Great to see that we have another great cohort of Labour councillors on the course…

Thank you so much Vince, we really appreciate you coming and speaking to the group.

Great first day of our next generation programme 20 #NG20. Speakers included: Pete Starkings, @4Hussain @vincemaple our tutors @jimrobbins & @NadinePeatfield our Leader @_petermason & all brilliantly facilitated by @NanSloane

Excellent conversations on the doorstep following the budget which gives Medway residents breathing space.

Have to miss the afternoon session as off to support the fantastic @LGA_Labour Next Generation programme

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Kent could be on course to have an elected mayor in the biggest shake-up of local government in more than half a century.

More here: bbc.in/4suF1Hj

Brilliant news for Hounslow. Thanks to this Labour government and @SadiqKhan we are on track to get the West London Orbital rail link, making journeys across West London quicker and easier

We have announced £285 million of capital grant funding for Good Growth Funds in 2027 to 2028, giving mayors and local leaders greater flexibility to invest in their own growth priorities.

Here are the allocations;

Tees Valley - £8.39 million
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough - £11.09 million
West of England - £14.49 million
York and North Yorkshire - £9.96 million
East Midlands - £26.97 million
Hull and East Yorkshire - £7.45 million
Greater Lincolnshire - £13.27 million
Cheshire and Warrington - £11.90 million
Cumbria - £6.03 million
Greater London Authority - £54.11 million

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Funding for emerging strategic authorities

Devon, Plymouth and Torbay - £5.70 million
Lancashire - £7.27 million
Greater Essex - £8.76 million
Hampshire and Solent - £9.37 million
Norfolk and Suffolk - £7.85 million
Sussex and Brighton - £8.01 million
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland - £5.34 million

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Staffordshire and Stoke - £5.35 million
Thames Valley - £9.10 million
Kent and Medway - £8.78 million
Wessex - £8.69 million
Hertfordshire - £5.61 million
Surrey - £5.68 million
Cornwall - £2.66

Funding retained for remaining areas

For places where there is not currently local agreement on the right footprint for future devolution, £23 million of funding is held in reserve. Funding will be allocated to individual places as and when agreement is reached on devolution footprints.

Read more gov.uk/government/pub… 3/3 #Budget26

I really welcome the announcement from Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP of a new strategic authority for Kent & Medway which I am hopeful will include a new Mayor for our region.

I look forward to hearing more on government's local government reorganisation proposals for our region
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