Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 26% (-1)
LAB: 22% (+1)
CON: 17% (=)
GRN: 15% (=)
LDM: 11% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @opiniumresearch.bsky.social, 15-17 Apr.
Changes w/ 18-20 Mar.
Labour Together’s Director of Devolution, @jpspencer.bsky.social, on why giving local communities more say matters.
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 26% (-4)
LAB: 22% (+4)
CON: 19% (+1)
GRN: 15% (=)
LDM: 13% (=)
Via Freshwater Strategy, 10-12 Apr.
Changes w/ 27 Feb - 1 Mar.
It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺
Reform drops to 25% in this weeks voting intention their lowest since April 2025. They lead the Tories by 3 & Labour by 4
➡️ REF UK 25% (-5)
🌳 CON 22% (+3)
🌹 LAB 21% (+1)
🌍 GREEN 13% (+1)
🔶 LIB DEM 12% (nc)
❓OTH 3% (nc)
🟡 SNP 2% (nc)
N = 2,011 | 10-13/4 | Change w/ 8/4
When it comes to regional investment, which would you prioritise?
Investing in the poorest places, even if it produces less economic return: 53%
Investing in places likely to give the biggest return, even if they are already well off: 20%
yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
Politico: "The government has announced that six mayoral authorities will benefit from a £3 million funding package to manage the transition to a franchised local bus model" (in England). Another step towards local, democratic control of bus services
Polanski's comms on Iran treat people as if they are stupid. You can disagree with the govt position (Greens believe Britain should ban the US from using its bases here + that we should not defend Gulf states—fine!), but the government has been up front about its position for weeks now
As always: the actual Goverment has to work in concert with allies for maximum impact rather than immediately post responses to world events.
Once upon a time opposition party's got this
A single line in this piece just made my day:
“The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.”
Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A lot has bothered me about the reporting of the Kanye West banned. Firstly how it has been framed as all about it the Jewish community - but we should all be against Nazism! This country fought Nazis. Songs called Heil Hitler should not just be for the Jewish community to object to. And secondly…
Today the two-child limit is gone. Parents have told us what this will mean for their kids:
- A first-ever birthday party for a 10-year-old
- Better quality food
- Clothes that aren't completely worn out
- Going on the school trip without getting into debt
- A new mattress
- Swimming lessons
Minimum wage up 📈
State pension up 💷
Two child limit gone 🏡
Child poverty down 📉
Workers rights strengthened 💪🏾
Ignore the critics. We’re delivering the change we promised.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
From today, statutory sick pay is paid from the first day of illness
And it’s paid to every worker, including the lowest paid, who previously got nothing
Long held goals of the labour movement - realised by a Labour government
Too right it does.
In 26 days' time we will:
✅Abolish Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions.
✅Introduce periodic tenancies.
✅Limit rent increases to once a year.
✅Ban rental bidding and rent in advance.
✅Make discrimination against renters who have children or receive benefits illegal.
"It was horrid, absolutely horrid. We felt a lot of pressure, which I think is his tactic."
London lawyer Andrew Milne bought a strip of land. Then the threatening letters began. Featuring bee keepers, bikers and legal threats, it's a strange and disturbing tale...
Check our latest piece below 👇
Happy New Financial Year!
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Starmer announces that the UK is pursuing closer EU relations:
“Brexit did deep damage to our economy. And the opportunities to strengthen our security and cut the cost of living are simply too big to ignore. We want to be more ambitious. Closer economic cooperation. Closer security cooperation.”
The Green Party's conversion to Corbynite Left populism means that if they win power in London boroughs they will slow affordable housing supply, not increase it. Plus elections intel from Westminster, that "Lord Sadiq" story and more. Almost free: davehillonlondon.substack.com/p/on-london-...
It is absolutely stupid that a major focus of policy response to the Iran War is on the planned 1p rise in fuel duty in September (watching Trevor Phillips interview Bridget Phillipson). Of no help now to anyone to abandon it. Shows how trivial our political debate has become.
Nice piece here. The superstar cities are important, but the foundations of American prosperity are a large number of well governed cities with a strong business base www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-f...
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Fantastic to see @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social creating deputy mayors for health to join up the NHS with other services in an area - starting with @andyburnham.bsky.social in GM and Oliver Coppard in South Yorkshire.
This takes forward something that I have long thought was a good idea.
How it started: How it's going:
This is really good to see and a key recommendation from the paper I wrote on decentralisation a while back.
www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
“The NHS and English school system are centralised to an unusual degree in comparison with other countries. This can mean accountability tools are blunt, and fail to acknowledge local context.”
Delivering on harmonising boundaries is a significant component of this type of aspiration. I looked at latest developments in that space here: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/line-da...
Agreed!
This builds on the work of @samfr.bsky.social and many others who have also been calling for this.
Full speech here: www.gov.uk/government/s...
More detail: www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Fantastic to see @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social creating deputy mayors for health to join up the NHS with other services in an area - starting with @andyburnham.bsky.social in GM and Oliver Coppard in South Yorkshire.
This takes forward something that I have long thought was a good idea.
