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Ed Davey: Hillary Clinton Told Me To “Stand Up To Bullies” Like Reform UK Former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton privately urged Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey to “stand up to bullies” like Reform UK during a ...

NEW: Interview w/ Lib Dem leader Ed Davey

🔶 Davey thinks the Lib Dems could pick up environmental-focused Green voters who are unhappy with their party’s leftward shift

👀 He shares some of his more critical MPs’ “restlessness”

🇺🇸 Hillary Clinton gave him some “choice advice” about fighting Reform

Ed Davey: Hillary Clinton Told Me To “Stand Up To Bullies” Like Reform UK Former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton privately urged Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey to “stand up to bullies” like Reform UK during a ...

Ed Davey has revealed to PolHome that Hillary Clinton privately told him to "stand up to bullies" like Reform

In an interview with @zoecrowther.bsky.social, Davey insisted he was the best person to lead the Lib Dems, and said that the party could pick up traditional Green voters put off by Polanski

Team Burnham Is Getting Organised Ahead Of The May Elections Labour MPs say Angela Rayner is down, Andy Burnham is up. Sienna Rodgers reports on the obstacles on the mayor’s path to No 10

… @siennarodgers.bsky.social reports that the Burnham operation is reaching out to NEC officials, trade unions and Labour MPs ahead of a fresh push to return to the Commons, and that left / soft left Labour MPs currently prefer him to Rayner

Worker Bees: Inside The Burnham Operation Andy Burnham remains a likely candidate to replace Keir Starmer if the Prime Minister leaves office before the next election. Tom Scotson goes in s...

PolHome’s @tomscotson.bsky.social visits planet Burnham to find out what makes the hope of the Labour left tick

Oscar Wilde, Ian Brown & Lenin feature

As does David Blunkett, who recently advised him: “Timing is everything in politics” (more on that via @siennarodgers.bsky.social below…)

Government Looks At Bringing In Tougher Laws To Restrict Fireworks Sales Exclusive: The government is carrying out a consultation on whether to implement tougher laws on the public sale of fireworks.

EXC w/ @adampayne26.bsky.social

The government is carrying out a consultation on whether to implement tougher laws on the public sale of fireworks

MPs, including @sarahowen.org.uk and Simon Hoare, have welcomed the news, with Owen calling it a "huge step forward"

Travelodge Given Almost £70m In Public Money Since 2022 Hotel Room Assault There are growing questions over whether Travelodge should continue to receive taxpayers' money after PoliticsHome revealed that the public sector ...

Exclusive: We reveal Travelodge has been handed over £68m by the public sector (including to house vulnerable people) since a woman was sexually assaulted in one of its rooms in 2022

There are now growing questions over whether Travelodge should continue to receive taxpayers' money

Genuinely the best news of 2026

It looks like the great man lives to fight another day

About 80% of this post still stands

It is insane. If only that legend could speak.

George was born 12 years after Napoleon died which just sounds insane. We knew a creature whose mother probably wandered on the same soil as Napoleon.

Trump is sinking. Now +22 disapproval via @fiftyplusone.news.

Please pause to consider for a moment 193 years of age. Jonathan the tortoise had been on the scene for nearly three decades by the time the US civil war started. The best part of a century when Titanic sank. We’ve lost a real-life time lord

I wonder how many are the same who went LibDem 2010 to UKIP 2015. Voters are funny things 🤫

Are the Greens taking Reform votes? The Green surge might do more than just upend Labour

I'm late to it but @bwalker.uk spots something that makes sense, but is still fascinating: the Greens seem to be taking votes from Reform

"Some voters are looking more to Shake Things Up than pursue a necessarily right or left platform. They may see little difference in a Green or Reform vote"

Brian Leishman: 'We’re Miles Off Where A Labour Party Should Be' After a life in golf and football, Brian Leishman finds himself at the sharp end of the new government’s whipping operation. He speaks to Ben Garts...

"What the Greens were saying about redistribution of wealth, improvement of public services – that’s basically Labour Party stuff"

Labour MP and ex-goalkeeper Brian Leishman talks to @bengartside.bsky.social about playing snooker with Stephen Flynn and his party being "miles off" where it should be

Over A Dozen Universities Wrongly Spent £190m Of Taxpayers' Money On Student Loans A student loans mistake by universities has seen up to £190m of taxpayers’ money wrongly given to unaware students, PoliticsHome can reveal, leavin...

Over a dozen universities wrongly spent £190m of taxpayers' money on student loans, PolHome can reveal

Bridget Phillipson has accused the universities involved of “incompetence” and “abuse of public money”

Around 22k students are estimated to be affected, according to a DfE letter seen by PolHome

In Nov, Tom Scotson & I reported frustration within gov that write-rounds, ministers using written correspondence to reach decisions, were choking delivery

They'll be streamlined in an Antonio Romeo-driven bid to tackle bureaucracy, which also inc reducing consultations & using AI to spot red tape

The Whitehall write-round process is to be overhauled, as PolHome first reported in November

The Cabinet Office says a ripping up of "consultation culture" will "reform the process for collective Cabinet agreement of government policy to speed up decision-making"

More MPs read PoliticsHome than Labour List, New Statesman or The Spectator

Yet another reason why you should follow @politicshome.bsky.social, subscribe to our newsletters, and listen to our podcast!

And you can find and follow our reporters on this list: bsky.app/profile/poli...

Chuffed with these @politicshome.bsky.social numbers — but the work continues!

Multi-party politics isn’t necessarily chaotic – we could be moving towards a new local two-party-ism There are certainly reasons to argue for electoral reform. But pointing to the current system as a generator of chaos could be a misinterpretation ...

Multi-party politics isn’t necessarily chaotic – we could be moving towards a new local two-party-ism, write @profjanegreen.bsky.social and @martamiori.bsky.social

Culture Clash – Lisa Nandy On Keeping Hope Alive Critics say Lisa Nandy should spend more time meeting stakeholders in her brief, but the Culture Secretary tells Francis Elliott she’s fighting for...

Lisa Nandy sits down with @franciselliott.bsky.social to discuss the BBC, AI in the arts, being "non-factional" to her "core", and how the government can communicate better

On Andy Burnham's bid to become an MP: "had I been sitting in that seat... yeah, I would have voted to allow him to stand"

cheers Joshua, appreciate it

From ‘Workington Man’ To Clubs On The Brink: Rugby League’s Fight To Survive Rugby league is cherished by many of the 'left behind' towns that have become central to Britain's electoral politics. But now community clubs are ...

Rugby league is cherished by many of the 'left behind' towns that have become central to Britain's electoral politics. But now community clubs in northern England are fighting to stay afloat

What next for 'The Workington Man', asks @adampayne26.bsky.social

From ‘Workington Man’ To Clubs On The Brink: Rugby League’s Fight To Survive Rugby league is cherished by many of the 'left behind' towns that become central to Britain's electoral politics. But now community clubs are fight...

For The House magazine, I dust off the writing hat to look at a topic close to my heart — rugby league

Years on from Boris Johnson’s 'Workington Man', the game, rooted in communities, is facing existential questions. What can, what should, the government do to help?

Inside The Battle For Labour's Mainstream: Luke Akehurst Vs Luke Hurst Two internal players called Luke are battling to claim Labour’s mainstream. The outcome of their rivalry will shape the future of the party – and p...

Colleague @siennarodgers.bsky.social reprises her role as Labour-faction-chronicler-in-chief to look at how the party’s future could be determined by an arm wrestle between two organisers called Luke

Akehurst (Labour First, right of party) vs Hurst (Mainstream, soft left)

Is The Green Party Getting A Wave Of Councillor Defections? The Green Party has said a growing number of Labour councillors are joining its ranks ahead of the local elections. What does the data say?

"64 councillors have defected to the Greens since the July 2024 general election at the time of writing. Of these, 48 defections have taken place since September 2025, shortly after Polanski became party leader on 2 September." @zoecrowther.bsky.social

Labour MPs Push For Tighter Controls On Holiday Lets Short-term holiday lets are a major part of Britain’s tourism industry – but many Labour MPs want tighter controls on their number. Will the govern...

NEW: Labour MPs are pushing ministers to go further in plans to regulate holiday lets.

DCMS will introduce a national register of lets, but this will be "light-touch" and seems to be delayed. MHCLG is meanwhile "considering" giving councils more powers:

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