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🚨 LIVE: UK General Election results as they happen Two results announced so far: 🔴 Houghton & Sunderland South – LAB 🔴 Blyth and Ashington – LAB Reform UK came in second place ahead of the Conservatives in both seats

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🚨 EXIT POLL 🚨 Labour: 410 Conservatives: 131 Liberal Democrats: 61 SNP: 10 Reform: 13 Green: 2 Plaid Cymru: 4 Other: 19

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🏹 I went home to Nottinghamshire to report back from 'New Build England' Voters there feel they were promised a better life, but that these promises have been broken Here is what residents of the Tory-held Gedling and Newark constituencies had to say 👇

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🏗️ "There’s lots of housing being built, but we are lacking infrastructure, schools and dentists in particular...”

👇 Voters living in modern housing developments in Nottinghamshire told @zoecrowther.bsky.social why they felt Conservative promises have been broken

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🌹🔶 Some Labour supporters are actively campaigning for the Lib Dems in an effort to get rid of the Tories

👇 @zoecrowther.bsky.social reports from North Norfolk

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🎪 Election organisers could be struggling to get the staff to run election processes, and polling station portacabins could be in short supply over the summer festival season

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🗣️ Angela Rayner has said she "welcomed" the conclusion of the police investigation “We have seen the Conservative Party use this playbook before – reporting political opponents to the police during election campaigns to distract from their dire record."

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MPs will debate assisted dying tomorrow in Parliament

I spoke to some of them about the reasons why they support or oppose a change to the law and what could persuade them otherwise 👇 @politicshome.bsky.social

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🏃 "I think it makes you a better MP, because the problem with politics is that we are in such a bubble… so you never really have time for yourself to solve problems."

@politicshome.bsky.social spoke to the politicians who ran the London Marathon today

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Tory councillors aren't too impressed by the funding for social care & road maintenance in their areas Labour Together/Savanta research seen by PolHome shows: 📊 24% think adult social care is underfunded 📊 19% say the same for children's social care 📊 32% say there isn't enough money for roads

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💼 The Spring Budget will be announced tomorrow as the government looks for ways to try to convince voters not to abandon the Conservatives in the general election Here is everything we know so far:

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🤓 “I’m really enjoying it; I’m letting my inner tech geek come out.”

Tech minister Saqib Bhatti spoke to @politicshome.bsky.social about public trust in AI and the interventions that might be needed to protect UK democracy

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It was surely only a matter of time before Lee Anderson lost the whip Here is what he told me in 2022 about why uses Twitter (now X ofc)

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🇺🇦❌ Lawyers have warned that the govt’s changes to the Ukraine visa schemes could be unlawful Concerns are set to be raised with a parliamentary committee and lawyers have argued that some Ukrainians will be left with “no choice but to litigate”

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🏘️ Housing minister Lee Rowley told @politicshome.bsky.social that "lots of people doing a little" could address the housing crisis

He praised the Prince of Wales’s plans for a housing project in Cornwall and said he welcomed input from landowners across the country

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👋 Nickie Aiken, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party Board and MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, has joined the growing list of MPs standing down at the next general election 👇 Here is the full list:

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The govt has said binding measures for tech companies will be needed further down the road to ensure safe use of AI

Tech sector figures told @politicshome.bsky.social that without urgent legislative action, the govt's current approach could leave the UK "powerless"

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🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 Conversion therapy ban in the long grass

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Tory MP Alicia Kearns and Amy Roch from LGBT+ anti-abuse charity Galop join PoliticsHome to discuss the government's ailing promise to legislate against conversion practices

🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/219010

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LMEC's co-chair and former British ambassador Sir William Patey has written this op-ed in The House to explain why the initiative is being launched now:

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The new Labour Middle East Council has the backing of senior Labour figures and diplomats 🌹 Cherie Blair will be the Labour Middle East Council’s Honorary Patron, and veteran Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh will be its Labour Parliamentary Party Liaison Co-chair

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🗳️ Former Tory MP Chris Skidmore said the the local and mayoral elections in May would be "absolutely critical" for delivering on net zero 🤷‍♂️ "When it comes to the general election, it doesn't really matter who wins"

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🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 Football's financial crisis

⚽️ Labour MP Clive Efford and Fair Game's Mike Baker join PoliticsHome to discuss football governance and plans for an independent regulator as clubs face financial pressures

🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/21692e

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Tony Blair's chief Northern Ireland negotiator said there were lessons from Bloody Sunday that should be applied to Gaza “The manner in which civilians are being killed and injured is bound to lead to greater support for Hamas... as it did for the IRA"

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🏡📈 George Freeman resigned as Science Minister last year in part because he could not afford to pay for an increase in his mortgage on his ministerial salary

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🤳 The Labour Party has followed the US White House in recruiting a new senior digital role to build relationships with famous social media content creators ahead of the next general election

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Tory MPs tell @politicshome.bsky.social they hope Simon Clarke's comments will not cut through with voters & some say it might even help to unite the party

"If he had hoped to rally others to his cause I suspect he actually helped the Party unify around Rishi Sunak"

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Historian Sir Anthony Seldon says historical evidence shows a change of leader is unlikely to change a party's fortunes before an election "People who know no history get very excited about seeing a change in leader as the panacea... but the truth is, it has never worked before"

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🗣️ Latest on the Simon Clarke/Rishi Sunak row: A One Nation Tory MP tells me they think Sunak should go "full Boris" and suspend Simon Clarke and other rebel MPs like Johnson did with Brexit rebels in 2019 "The majority is big enough and anything less will look weak and won't stop the decline"

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🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 Reform want to "obliterate" Tories

➡️ Reform UK's Ben Habib and Labour Together's Christabel Cooper join PoliticsHome to discuss rising support for Reform and the potential impact on the general election

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📮📝 Labour MP Kevan Jones has said that a review of arms-length bodies in the UK is urgently needed in order to prevent the Post Office scandal repeating itself

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🚨 The latest UK/US strikes against the Houthis could prove ineffective if the UK doesn't learn from past mistakes

I spoke to former Middle East Minister Tobias Ellwood and expert Dr Elisabeth Kendall about the "missed opportunities" to bring stability to the region

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"We’re conning ourselves into thinking that these organisations are separate from govt and are independent. They're not, so therefore we need accountability" Interview: Labour MP Kevan Jones on what lessons need to be learned from the Post Office scandal 👇

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Just how much information can the civil service divulge to Labour in the access talks?

🔒 They can't reveal confidential information, says @cathhaddon.bsky.social, but they can hint at the relative importance of different issues without totally giving away all the government's secrets...

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🌹 How much previous experience does Starmer's team have in government compared to Blair's 1997 team?

The current Labour team have more direct experience of government, says @cathhaddon.bsky.social

Three shadow cabinet members have run departments before – Yvette Cooper, Ed Miliband and Hilary Benn

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Starmer’s team has more experience of government than the incoming 1997 team, but not quite as much as the incoming 2010 Conservative government.

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