Rebecca Long-Bailey hits back at the old line that Labour crashed the economy - says it was a "global crash" and hits back at Rishi Sunak saying "you're boss [Sajid Javid] was selling derivatives at Deutsche Bank at the time 🔥
#BBCDebate
Sexist comment of the week (so far). Phone up a male MP and say I'm calling from the Daily Mirror, he asks me who I'm calling on behalf of. Erm myself a political journalist.
Dominic Raab listing off maternity rights, minimum wage and saying UK has led the way on workers' rights. Pretty sure he's been opposed to all of those 🤔
#Ridge
Shortly arriving in Brussels with Peter Grant, Vince Cable, Dominic Grieve, Caroline Lucas, David Lammy, and Liz Saville Roberts members of
@BestForBritain
who are making the case for a Brexit extension to give time for a referendum to the EU ahead of the European Council summit.
First day in the new job as Political Advisor to
@JoStevensLabour
after a lovely send off from the Daily Mirror lot last week. On the same phone number.
Lovely to hear from Imelda Staunton.
My mum has always boasted about appearing on stage with her. (She doesn't always say it was as a lion in their school production of Noye's Fludde. Imelda, naturally, took the lead.)
Dominic Raab rejecting "international comparisons" saying they're not always "helpful" after it's pointed out the UK has overtaken Italy when it comes to coronavirus deaths. But his own slide slow contains a comparison of death figures.
Nicola Sturgeon says of the members of public who intervened today: "It's how we all hope we'd respond in a situation like that but in truth none of us know until we're confronted by it and hopefully we will not be in that position"
#BBCDebate
So the chairman of the Labour Party voted for a managed no deal, ten of the TIGs voted against a customs union which would have passed with their support and 27 Labour MPs voted against a second ref which lost by, you've guessed it, 27.
#Brexit
The Tories can laugh about Corbyn raising buses all they want but that’s kind of how a lot of people get around - if they still have a route to take
#pmqs
One of the things I absolutely love about the Labour Party is that you can rock up to a canvass session the other side of the country where you know nobody and are just handed a stack of leaflets and treated like family. 🌹🌹🌹
#labourdoorstep
BB “we fought big time fascists when I was knee high to a grasshopper up in Yorkshire when I grew up I fought them in the West Midlands in the NF we don’t duck democratic choices out of fear of fascists. It’s cowardice and we are not a nation of cowards”
#PeoplesVoteRally
Melanie Onn has quit as a shadow housing minister after Labour whipped in favour of second referendum proposal put forward by Kyle/Wilson (in the name of Margaret Beckett)
Caroline Lucas highlighting how the 30 worst areas for social mobility all voted leave. She says “instead of leaving the European Union, let’s fix Britain”
#peoplesvoterally
I’m running
#greatnorthrun
for
@samaritans
because I’ve lost too many friends and family members to suicide.
In my own struggles with depression it’s been a comfort to know they are always there.
No matter what you're facing a Samaritan will go through it with you.
I have spoken to too many female MPs who are genuinely scared about their safety. The Prime Minister's callous response to frightened MPs like Paula Sherriff this evening makes me feel sick.
Standing ovation for Dominic Grieve and Sam Gyimah. Mr Grieve says the rally is so busy that the man on the door tried to turn him away.
#peoplesvoterally
Always demoralising to lose fitness but thank you so much to all the
@finsburyparkrun
volunteers who cheered me round today. Feel so much better for doing it!
Treasury writes off £4.3bn in fraudulent covid payments just before new tax rises come in. Remember this the next time we hear a homily from the Conservatives on sound public finances. And where is the Chancellor?
They did it! Can’t stop grinning. What a nail-biting final and what a leap forward for women’s football. There’s no going back now!
#WEURO2022
#ENGvsGER
Responses from the Jewish leaders and Jeremy Corbyn following anti-Semitism meeting read like a terribly mismatched Guardian blind date. "Positive and constructive"/ "disappointing missed opportunity" - "we definitely clicked" / "the most awkward night of my life".
Just finished
@samaritans
Jog 30km in November running for those I’ve lost to suicide, those who struggle and because of my own ropey mental health.
@samaritans
need our help - a friend had to wait 1/2 an hour to speak to someone. All donations appreciated
Caroline Lucas says “a People’s Vote has to be a catalyst for the greatest social and economic transformation we have seen in this country for generations”
#PeoplesVoteRally
Baroness Boothroyd says “for two years Theresa May has been struggling to keep her party intact and the leader of the opposition has been struggling to keep his opinions intact”
#peoplesvoterally
In Bridgehall Community Centre in Stockport where Angela Rayner brought up her first child for launch of her deputy leadership bid.
She is set to tell party members Labour must 'win or die'
The great thing about
@parkrunUK
is even when you don’t feel up to running you can volunteer. Well done to everyone at
@finsburyparkrun
today - you smashed it!
When I first moved to Paris and knew no one I felt very lonely and went and sat in Notre Dame and half prayed and mostly reflected. It brought comfort. It is devastating to see that special building burn.
Really great to see
@DrRosena
on
@loosewomen
today answering questions about mental health ahead of
#WorldMentalHealthDay
so many people struggling right now. Important message that A and E always there for people in crisis.
Jeremy Corbyn says he enjoyed the Question Time debate last night. He said he's happy to take questions from "anyone, anywhere, anytime" - not sure that's the experience of some of my colleagues in the lobby 🧐
Anyone who normally hates
@bbcquestiontime
I would recommend tonight's installment with Matt Hancock, Yvette Cooper, the RCN's Donna Kinnair and John Sentamu. Thoughtful, careful and forensic questioning.
It was a big deal for me to go swimming today after a long break. My MH had really deteriorated and when that happens I often stop doing the stuff that really helps. This is to remind myself that I ALWAYS feel better after a swim. Thanks
@WestReservoir
for being the best.
Great thread
@e_casalicchio
I'm a 40mg of citalopram a day type gal. I run and swim (may have mentioned that 1 or a 100 times😉) but when I'm bad it's impossible. It's a balance between lowering expectations and not beating myself up. A lot of work goes into managing this disease
Great that this guidance is being updated - and lots of sensible sounding advice in there.
One thing I would note: Just as we need to break the stigma around mental health we need to break the stigma around medicating for it where appropriate.
My slowest
@parkrunUK
in a long time but I’m so pleased I made it this morning! It’s been a bad week for the black dog so thank you to all the
@Lordshipparkrun
volunteers and
@ElinWeston
for getting me round!
Journalist James O’Brien is talking with leave voters who have changed their mind. This man says he first considered it when he saw people from Eastern Europe being abused in London
#PeoplesVoteRally
Katarina Johnson-Thompson: Gold Medallist and World Champion 🥇
Jodie Comer: Emmy and BAFTA award-winner 🏆
Liverpool born. Best friends since school. Game-changers. Record-breakers 🌍
There’s something about scouse women .. 👏🏻
Belated posting for
#redjanuary2024
. Taking part this year because exercise really helps me tackle my depression but depression often saps my desire to exercise. I kicked it off this year with a bracing swim in Alnmouth in Northumberland with my dad and a jog around Amble 1/31
As
#GreatBritishRailways
marks a new era for our railways, we've put retired Pacer trains to new uses serving Northern communities:
🏥A family support centre at a hospital
🍳A kitchen for a mental health charity
📚A new classroom for kids
The last one was delivered yesterday👇
With final story filed made the long trek (15 mins up the road) home where my dad has very kindly recalculated all his timings to have the meal in the evening Merry Christmas from me and my minimalist tree.
Huge cheers for Ian Blackford from the SNP and Liz Saville Roberts from Plaid Cymru who says Brexiteers got “drunk on their own Churchillian rhetoric”
#PeoplesVoteRally
Stephen Barclay horrifies Labour MPs: "Today is time for this House to come together and move forward someone who previously did that ...was former secretary of state for N Ireland Mo Mowlam, her biography was called Momentum before it was a faction forcing out colleagues."
SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford urges Boris Johnson to learn the lessons of history says in the banking crisis the banks were bailed out but ordinary people were not. He asks for an emergency universal basic income. Boris Johnson agrees to meet with him
#PMQs
Can't believe it's my final day working with the indomitable
@CaitProwle
.
She's smart, funny, strong and endlessly big hearted. She is a massive loss to Labour but, as a
@GMB_union
member, I'm mighty glad she'll be there fighting our corner. And I'm sure she'll be back!
What we now need is for the chancellor to extend the furlough scheme to those who still cannot work while venues stay closed so that organisations can make plans to keep our world-class creative talent in the sector.
This is a much-needed injection of cash but for many it's too little too late. It needs to reach theatres teetering on the brink fast- especially those across the towns and small
cities where venues + arts orgs are so vital to local economies providing many interdependent jobs.
.
@MirrorAlison
embodied what the Daily Mirror is about. Big hearted, tough and always standing up for the underdog. She was hugely encouraging to me as a young reporter and I know she'll be missed across the newsroom.
Have felt so lucky to have
@WestReservoir
nearby during the last few months - even when it’s 13.4C like this morning! For me looking after my mental health is a constant task but swimming really helps and chatting to the lovely staff and fellow swimmers.
#WorldMentalHealthDay