Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick are “cutting fuel prices for the day at a petrol station in Derbyshire.” They’ve branded up a petrol station for it…
Bridget Phillipson stuck out a post last night attacking the Tories and Reform for not voting with Labour on free school meals:
Labour MPs just voted to expand free school meals to half a million more children, lifting 100,000 children out of poverty.
The Tories and Reform UK voted against.
Only Labour will give children growing up in our country the best start in life.
— Bridget Phillipson (@bphillipsonMP) March 9, 2026
There were eight votes last night on the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill on a series of Lords amendments, including on uniforms, social media, smartphones et cetera. None of them related to free school meals…
Phillipson might have known that had she showed up for the debate. She is instead touting the DfE’s new V-levels programme today to encourage vocational qualifications. A full rollout plan is meant to come for that in June this year…
In what must be the perfect case study in the law of unintended consequences, Labour’s new Employment Rights Act (ERA) gives top bankers the chance to rake in millions in dismissal payouts with the scrapping of the compensation cap. Chants of “thank you Angie!” can be heard emanating from the City for the first time in history…
The financial cap on unfair dismissal claims, currently £118,223, will be axed on 1st January next year. This is the maximum sum an employment tribunal can award a claimant for wrongful termination. Binning it opens the door for bankers earning many times that amount to shake down their banks upon exit. Even the government’s own analysis admits the move “may particularly benefit [some groups], such as high-earning employees”. Those with deep pockets now have a real incentive to take their former employers to court…
Reports are emerging that the RFA Lyme Bay – part of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary – has now been routed to the Eastern Mediterranean. HMS Dragon has still not left port…
Lyme Bay is currently in Gibraltar. It is a sealift ship capable of transporting a variety of assets – and people – and is usually deployed for humanitarian roles thanks to its medical capabilities. A large repatriation effort is underway for Brits in the gulf…
Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick have told the Sun they’d scrap £13.5 billion in net zero spending to reverse Reeves’ hike to fuel duty due September:
“Reform would cut £13.5billion in bonkers green schemes. And we’d use that money to do what Reeves should but won’t — cut your bills. That starts with scrapping this crazed plan to increase petrol taxes at the worst possible moment.
If Reform was in Government, it would never have happened. We will spend the next few months trying to shame Rachel Reeves into cancelling it. But if she doesn’t — whether because she’s running scared of the Greens or in hock to her far-left backbenchers — then Reform will reverse it in our first Budget.”
The pair will host a press conference at 10am. Reeves herself is up in the Commons at 11.15am. Stay tuned…
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood introduced her speech on migration reforms at the IPPR:
“There’s no denying we meet at a difficult time for my party.”