NEW. The Labour Party has EXTENDED its lead over the Conservatives, according to the first exclusive YouGov poll of the campaign for Sky News

The Great Britain poll - conducted on Mon and Tue this week - puts Labour on 47%, the Tories on 20%, Reform on 12%, the LibDems on 9% and

New: I understand Labour have lifted the suspension on Diane Abbott. The whip has been restored to her.

Decision comes 12 hours after
#Newsnight revealed the NEC investigation into Ms Abbott’s comments on racism finished FIVE months ago

More tonight LIVE 1030pm BBC Two

Not reading them! #WorstBookCrime

Compulsory National Service for MPs

This, from +972 Magazine
and Guardian, is completely fucking wild. If Netflix showed you Mossad director personally stalking ICC prosecutor, incl walking into a hotel suite where she thought she'd be meeting the President of Congo - you'd be like, nah. And yet. theguardian.com/world/article/…

'There's a lot more to women and equality issues than the toxic debate on trans' says LibDem Women and Equalities spokesperson

Welcome to the 21st century where in the Catholic Church being gay is still officially seen as a 'fashion', not a trait welcome in the clergy, as there is 'already too much *frociaggine* in seminaries' – the Pope.
theguardian.com/world/article/…

1. I ran the UK’s FTM Network for trans men, with >4000 members, for 20 years, with annual Conferences & regular hosteling trips, where we felt safe & talked frankly.

Yet of many issues raised in this article - going through a second puberty, increased libido, the minimal …

Israeli forces have bombed a refugee camp in Rafah they had designated as a “safe zone” tonight, killing dozens of displaced people as they slept.

Humanity has been failed by western governments. The genocide of the Palestinian people must end.

Is this correct?

“He’s gone where? Oh my god, to Morrisons! To do a f*cking photoshoot sniffing a loaf of f*cking bread! You know they’ll keep moving him until they get a photo of the twat in front of a sign reading ‘moron’?

So basically it's Rishi Sunak plugging the army personnel gap with 18yo's on low paid work placements with guns #NationalService

The apolitical audio description mistyped cerebral palsy as 'terrible party' & 'terrible wealthy' whilst JRM said PIP was to help people into work. Wrong, it's a leveling up benefit for disabled & other people to help with daily living, not work.

Rishi Sunak to bring back mandatory national service in the army or community volunteering. A policy to steal votes from the hard right and lose the youth vote. I did 3 years in a school cadet force in the 80s but the world has moved on and so should we.
bbc.com/news/articles/…

Eddie Izzard has migrated from stand-up comedy to serious acting. But the role the 62-year-old really wants is to be the first trans member of parliament.

Read the full interview ⬇️

thetimes.co.uk/article/eddie-…

I don’t support any form of unlawful discrimination or harassment, regardless of who is doing it. So I wouldn’t be voting for KJK, if given the chance

Four years today George Floyd was murdered by police officer Derek Chauvin.
His death sparked the #BLM movement and racial inequality was being tackled and actioned - we were told.
Four years on and it's more or less back to factory settings as performative gestures have ended.

Russia hits a DIY store with people shopping in it in Kharkiv. Israel is bombing camps in Rafah. These states are barely disguising their disdain for international law and codes of military conduct as outlined in the Geneva Convention.

This chart from YouGov shows how deep a hole the Conservatives are in long-term.

Just 9% of graduates under the age of 50 planning to vote for them.

In fourth place amongst that group behind the Lib Dems and Greens.

What Laurence Fox did to me was humiliating. Every day is like being assaulted since.. #revengeporn
Here is my guest column for The Times and The Sunday Times
thetimes.co.uk/article/after-…