There may not have been one killer moment, but the media consensus that Keir Starmer is failing & his time as PM is effectively over has solidified this week
Even @newstatesman1913.bsky.social agrees⬇️
#KeirStarmer #Mandleson #OllyRobbins #r4today #skynews #PMQs #KemiBadenoch #LVIPolitics
“After hearing that labour faced huge losses in the local elections, the PM sacked the Downing Street cat”
😂😂Matt on Keir Starmer’s tendency to lash out & blame others
#KeirStarmer #Mandleson #OllyRobbins #r4today #skynews
If you're a politico🤓looking ahead to May the @Moreincommon_ polling & analysis kindly posted by @LukeTryl is an absolute #mustread as a guide to the locals & the #Senedd & #Holyrood elections
#KeirStarmer #NigelFarage #ReformUK #Green #r4today
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Huge irony as the political merry go round turns at dizzying speed:
Having lost out as Washington Ambr to Peter Mandleson, Karen Pierce is now a front runner to replace Olly Robbins as FCDO Perm Sec after he was fired over the Mandleson vetting...
#KeirStarmer #Mandleson #OllyRobbins #r4today
Matthew Parris questions Trump’s mental fitness for office & makes the argument for using the 25th Amendment
Where will JD Vance stand, as he weighs his opportunities to become President?
#Trump #JDVance #Trumpisunfit #IranWar #r4today #skynews #UVIPolitics
Will Trump get to appoint a FOURTH Supreme Court Justice before the midterms!?
Alito & Thomas both rumoured to be considering retirement whilst the Republicans have full control of the nomination & confirmation process
#Trump #SupremeCourt #Alito #ClarenceThomas #UVIPolitics
“Could the Labour Party replace Keir Starmer without telling him about it?”
😮😂😂 Matt brutal on the PM’s lack of authority & ignorance of what goes on in HIS government!!
#KeirStarmer #Mandleson #OllyRobbins #r4today #skynews
Once again - why was Dame Karen Pierce not reappointed as 🇬🇧Ambassador to Washington🇺🇸?
She’d done a good job & had strong links to Trump - ready to go for the new Trump term
How much easier would Keir Starmer’s time as PM have been?!!
#r4today #skynews #Mandleson #KeirStarmer
How many more people are going to have to resign for Keir Starmer's decision to ignore the advice of every single person who told him not to appoint Peter Mandelson?
Handy thread on developed vetting (DV), how it works & what that might mean for #Mandleson & #KeirStarmer from @calummillerld.bsky.social
#r4today #skynews #LVIPolitics
What vetting of Mandleson was there in 2008 to be Business Sec & a peer? Did he pass?
The most serious allegations, sending Epstein market sensitive secrets, occurred then. Relationship with JE was well known in 08, was that danger not seen?
#r4today #Mandleson #KeirStarmer
Less than a week after Gabriel Pogrund & @thetimes.com latest story on Richard Tice’s tax affairs, where’s the media follow up?!
Tory & Labour figures were hounded out of office over tax failings. Reform? 🤐 - nah, the media let them get away with it.
#C4news #RichardTice #Reform #skynews
@privateeyenews.bsky.social brilliant with THAT Trump picture🤦♂️😂😂
#Trump #TrumpJesus #C4news #skynews
“I think it’ll be my 10th”
Trump wanting credit for making peace in wars he started is a new level of Trump madness!
#c4news #Trump #ceasefire #Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah
The key Easter taste test:
The @aldiukstores.bsky.social Bunny is just £2.79, whilst Lindt’s is £6😳(that’s with a Tesco Clubcard discount!)
OK, Aldi’s Moser Roth 🐰 is 50g lighter but it’s almost as good as Lindt’s for half the price!
It’s a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️win for Aldi! 🥇
#Easter #HappyEaster #Aldi
A great @economist.com cover this week: a reminder that the real beneficiaries of Trump’s Iran 💥are the enemies of the USA 🇺🇸 & the West: China & Russia
A long term, strategic catastrophe
Trump’s visit to Xi next month is going to be 🙈🙉
#Trump #IranWar #Putin #PresidentXi
“I was a Remainer-this is why I was wrong”😱🤦♂️
Once past the triggering headline, a thought provoking piece on the change🇬🇧needs by Juliet Samuel in @thetimes.com
But she doesn’t explain how the vigorous, risk-taking, radical state will operate or its downsides🤔
#Brexit #Brexithasfailed
So, it’s all about opinion poll vote share @bbclaurak.bsky.social?
That’s how you justify having #Reform UK on nearly every week: today Zia Yusuf (not an MP)
So how come there are TWO Tories: #KemiBadenoch & Michael Gove? 17% in the polls & just 116 MPs🤦♂️
No Green or Lib Dem!
#bbclaurak
A bit rich of Michael Gove to slam Keir Starmer for not having a plan for government in @lewisgoodall.com’s C4 Dispatches
Where was his & Boris Johnson’s plan in 2016 after they won the referendum??🤔
Where was the Tory plan & success 2025-2024?
#Dispatches #KeirStarmer
“I wish Keir would just put the bloody Ming Vase down”
A brilliant evening with Alan Johnson & @steverichards.bsky.social discussing Wilson, Blair & Starmer ‘Leading Labour into government’ & the different contexts each faced at St Peters York & York Literature Festival
#York #YLF #KeirStarmer
Loved this episode. Gives one Michael Gove a right royal fisking!
Leading Labour into govt : Alan Johnson & @steverichards.bsky.social talk about Wilson & Blair (subjects of their 2 new @swiftpress.bsky.social 📚) & Starmer at St Peters York & York Lit Fest on Tues
All welcome, just £10 🎟️⬇️
#York #KeirStarmer #r4today
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It’s reassuring to think this will all be the case⬇️
But after two Trump terms the populist, post-truth, hard right genie is out of the bottle, GOP = MAGA & if Vance, Rubio or whoever win it’ll be more of all this 😭😱
#r4today #Trump #IranWar
We've won the UK's first ever SLAPP suit - acting for @danneidle.bsky.social - and made some really important law protecting the right to call out barristers whose misconduct facilitates aggressive tax avoidance.
“HMS Dragon had to be hauled out of dry dock”
“Only 2 out of 5 other destroyers were considered available”
Shocking to read & hard to believe our #RoyalNavy has come to this
Is it this bad @navylookout.bsky.social
#PMQs #HMSDragon #IranWar #USIsraelIranWar #RoyalNavy
Kemi Badenoch seems to be back to her old problem of not being able to adapt her Qs as events move on.
Fuel Duty remains frozen yet she still keeps asking about it rising🤔
#PMQs #KeirStarmer #KemiBadenoch #IranWar #USIsraelIranWar #skynews
Keir Starmer has Kemi Badenoch on the back foot over her changing position on the US Iran War - but as the master of the U-turn accusing her of the biggest U-turn is bold!!
#PMQs #KeirStarmer #KemiBadenoch #IranWar #USIsraelIranWar #skynews
Gerry Adams was a senior member of the IRA, you say??!🤔
Didn’t realise that
A) this was breaking news!
B) you needed to go to the High Court to establish it!!
It’s a strange world
#GerryAdams #IRA #HighCourt
Though I fear the Mail, neo-cons & the other usual suspects who hate the BBC will soon be attacking it (again) as a result. It’s a past they don’t want to be reminded of for obvious reasons 🤦♂️
This is an excellent modern history lesson on conflict in the Gulf & the USA’s role, from George H Bush & the first Gulf War to Trump & the Iran War by @BowenBBC
@BBCr4today at its best 👏👏
#r4today #bbcr4today #IranWar #Trump #USIsrael #GulfWar #UVIPolitics