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🇺🇦Ukraine - Mariia Mezentseva MP & Bill Browder

Sunak speech Rt Hon Johnny Mercer Natasha Clark

📄UK Migration laws - John Hayes

🗳️Psychology of Leaders - Ashley Weinberg

🌹Starmer meets mayors - Jonathan Reynolds

🤰Birth trauma inquiry - Natalie Cosgrove

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Sending all the love to Chris for his treatment and recovery.

I hope everyone sees and hears his warning about melanoma 👇🏻

The two best pieces in this week's The New Statesman are by John Gray on the SNP & Andrew Marr on John Smith. Both go against the conventional wisdom and feel thoughtful and original.

National Gallery: you’re looking so good. Happy Birthday

'Gaza is now being cut off. We can't get our people in. We can't get our supplies in either.'

The IRC's President and CEO David Miliband told Andrew Marr how aid flows from the north of Gaza aren't meeting humanitarian needs on the ground. Hear more on LBC: lbc.co.uk/radio/presente…

In the 90s, The Independent’s Andrew Marr observed how “the failure of so many familiar nostrums has left an uncertain people, suspicious of promises and temperamentally ready for betrayal”

Read how John Smith sought to win back trust:

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Today we remember John Smith who died thirty years ago. I remember being with him the night before he died when he ended his speech with 'all we ask is the opportunity to serve.' John's whole life was a testimony to the nobility of public service.

Insightful article Andrew Marr on what Keir Starmer can learn from late The Labour Party leader John Smith. Timely reflections on lessons of his leadership. Looking forward to discussing his legacy tomorrow Mile End Institute with Yvette Cooper & others. magazine.newstatesman.com/2024/05/08/wha…

Andrew Marr 💥And when asked about Labour spox not ruling out welcoming Farage into the party...

'You're joking (...) is that right? Well. I don't know who that Labour spokesperson was but they need a proper briefing on what Labour history is and what Labour values are.'

🚨EXCL: John McDonnell reacts to Elphicke defection with Andrew Marr:

Says Starmer should restore whip to Diane Abbott 'as rapidly as possible now'

Elphicke has views Labour 'shouldn't be associated with'

'If [she] approached me as leader (..) I would've said no thank you'

NEW: Labour's new West Midlands mayor Richard Parker tells Andrew Marr he would 'absolutely' like to see a UK arms embargo on Israel and is 'currently discussing that approach with a number of MPs'

Could not agree more

fascinating read on the internal arguments of the uk centre left.

'I was recently handed a copy of this authorless, 72-page “Political Movement, Planning Document” calling for the creation of a new party that was being shared with Labour donors....'

🗞️ Local elections catch-up: The voters who abandoned Keir Starmer’s party are an early warning of potential trouble ahead.

🖊️ Andrew Marr
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Labour’s victory in the West Midlands means that the only thing Rishi Sunak has to celebrate is Houchen – and the swing there would cost the Tories every seat they hold in the Tees Valley.

Labour has triumphed but it should reflect on the voters it lost too, writes Andrew Marr. newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

Ex-Trump security adviser McMaster tells LBC’s Tonight with Andrew Marr that the West ‘on the cusp of another World War’.

✍️ New York Post

Andrew Marr | LBC
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“This is how errors are corrected. This is how the softly corrupting effects of being too long in power and too little scared of your opponents are cured.”

🖊️ Andrew Marr
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We’re all equal before the law - “the poorest he in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he”.

This is good and pertinent now