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🇵🇸🤯 #PalestineAction called the government's action "unhinged"❗️

🌹 #HomeSecretary #YvetteCooper has said several acts of serious damage by Palestine Action since its creation in 2020 had cost  💷 "millions of pounds"❗️

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📈 The financial year to May 2025 saw a total of £37.7 billion borrowed – £1.6 billion more than the same period last year❗️

🗣️ "Expect the squeeze to continue through frozen tax thresholds and potentially new or increased taxes."

#UKPolitics #GovernmentDebt #CostOfLivingCrisis #BritishWorkers #Economy #Taxes #RachelReevesMP #KeirStarmerMP

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🇺🇸 Trump lashed out at Israel and Iran, even using an expletive🤬 as he accused both sides of violating the ceasefire❗

🇮🇷🥊🇮🇱 #IranIsraelConflict #Israel #Iran #DonaldTrump #AyatollahAliKhamenei #MiddleEast #WWIII 

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💷 5% of the UK's GDP amounts is approximately £142.55 billion ..... that's a lot of money❗️

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🗞️ A report by the Guardian, claims:

* the Department for Work and Pensions recorded 240 missing laptops and 125 missing phones in 2024; 

* while in the first five months of this year the Ministry of Defence recorded 103 missing laptops and 387 missing phones. 

* The Cabinet Office, which coordinates government activity, lost or had stolen 66 laptops and 124 phones in 2024❗️

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🌹 Labour #HomeSecretary #YvetteCooper says she is working to ban #PalestineAction, after the group posted footage online showing two people inside the base at RAF Brize Norton in #Oxfordshire❗️

🇵🇸✊🏽 A spokesperson for Palestine Action accused the UK of failing to meet its obligation to prevent or punish genocide.

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Q: Could Reform UK Be Your Next Government?

🏇 #ReformUK are now 11/8 with most bookies, to receive the most seats at the next #GeneralElection❗️

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🤔 Will Iran 🇮🇷 now target US military assets in the region❓

⚠️ Officials previously warned that any US attack risked a regional war❗

⌛ We're still waiting to hear from UK #PrimeMinister #KeirStarmer⁉️

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💷 Government borrowing in May surged to £17.7bn❗️

🐌 Sluggish growth and the high borrowing costs could mean #RachelReeves could lose her £10 billion financial cushion by the Budget⁉️

🏚️🧒🏾 This means, the Government, instead, could have handed around £4,000 to each of the 4.5 million children in the UK living in #poverty❗️

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🌎🔥 As #ClimateChange turns up the heat, so must our protections❗

🤫 PS .... The monthly electricity bill for the Houses of Parliament is est. to be between £300k-£500k a month❗

 #WorkersDeserveBetter #ClimateCrisis #TheyDoNotCareAboutUs 

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📻 Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Political Thinking, #DouglasAlexanderMP suggested "public consent" had "been withdrawn", adding "And truthfully on aid, it's not just fiscally challenged, it's culturally challenged as well."

🪖 #PrimeMinister #KeirStarmer announced a cut in the 🌍 international aid ⛑️ budget to fund an increase 📈 in defence spending earlier this year❗

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📩 In a letter to the 🌹 #PrimeMinister, Foxcroft said she understood the need to address "the ever-increasing welfare bill" but said cuts to personal independence payments and #UniversalCredit should "not be part of the solution"❗️

#UKLabour #WelfareState #VickyFoxcroftMP #KeirStarmer #Government #DisabilityBenefits #LabourParty #DisabilityCuts

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🌹 Labour MP for #Peterborough, #AndrewPakes says people misusing e-scooters, is one of the most common complaints he receives❗

🗣️ "While e-scooters can be convenient, the law is clear: privately owned e-scooters cannot be used on public roads, pavements, or cycle paths." - #AndrewPakesMP

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😯 The vote was close, the debate, on occasions personal and a few home truths came out!

#PeterboroughCC #PboroShittyCouncil #Peterborough #Pottyborough #PCCfinancialCrisis

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🚣🏿 The government has recently admitted the situation in the English Channel is "deteriorating"❗️

📈 Official figures show more than 1,500 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats last week, pushing the total for the year to just over 16,000 – 42% higher than at the same point last year❗️

#UK #PrimeMinister #Visas #AsylumSeekers #KeirStarmer #EnglishChannel #DowningStreet #MigrationCrisis

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😯 In an astonishing U-turn, the #PrimeMinister said he was supporting the recommendations of an independent report into child sexual exploitation by Baroness #LouiseCasey, being published in the next week❗️

➡️ Starmer had previously rejected calls by the #Tories and #ReformUK for a national inquiry, insisting instead on implementing

the recommendations of a previous inquiry into child sex abuse by Professor #AlexisJay⁉️

#KeirStarmer #GroomingGangs #WinterFuelAllowanve #TaxRises KeirStarmer #LabourLeader #UKPrimeMinister #StarmerPM #LabourParty #UKPolitics

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#KeirStarmer #GroomingGangs #WinterFuelAllowanve #TaxRises #LabourLeader #UKPrimeMinister #StarmerPM #LabourParty #UKPolitics