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🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 Jess Phillips on trying to make the internet safer

đź‘© Former safeguarding minister @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social joins @alaintolhurst.bsky.social to discuss the government's battle with big tech to make the internet safer for women and children

🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/50fbe2

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Exclusive: Former Green Party leader slams by-election result, claiming it will “demand some serious soul searching” Jonathan Bartley says there is now a “toxicity of the Green party brand” & allegations of antisemitism, along with the “Zionism is racism” motion “are clearly having an impact”

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Labour has retained the Holborn and St Pancras seat and dealt a major blow to Green Party leader Zack Polanski. Camden council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali won the North London seat, with the Green Party coming second

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Green insiders see credibility on the economy as key to achieving wider public support 🪴Greens plan to expand team of economic spokespeople 🪴New policy includes dropping interest rates as the main means of controlling inflation 🪴Debate over orthodox approach/ radical (inc workable vs unworkable)

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Green Party figures are wrestling with a question: how can they demonstrate economic credibility while maintaining their radical edge? “there's still this perception that the Green Party are going to protect Britain with healing herbs and herbal tea”

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🚨 Tory conference podcast is out now:

London mayoral hopeful Festus Akinbusoye speaks about his campaign to replace Sadiq Khan

And myself and @adampayne26.bsky.social analyse today’s keynote speech by Kemi Badenoch in Birmingham

🎧 here: pod.fo/e/6953c0

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More in Common's @luketryl.bsky.social said the “killer stat” for the Conservatives is that “only a third of people who say Kemi Badenoch is doing a good job as leader of the Conservatives would vote Tory"

“That is just a huge gap"

Tory optimism doesn't reflect political reality, pollsters warn

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The Tories risk falling into an EU trap set by "very clever politician" Andy Burnham, ex-Conservative mayor Andy Street has warned Street told @adampayne26.bsky.social that the PM was goading the Tories into a hardline UK-EU position that'll cost them key votes to the Lib Dems at the next election

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A Tory in the running to be the party's London mayoral candidate has said he wants to ban playing music and loudspeaker phone calls on the city's public transport Festus Akinbusoye said he'd employ more TfL staff to deal with anti-social behaviour, saying a "visible presence makes a big difference"

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“I don't want to live in a country run by people who threaten journalists, who call veterans traitors, and debate whether my mixed-race children are English," Badenoch said "I don't want to explain to my son... that some people don't think our black [football] players are English.”

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Kemi Badenoch pledged to scrap inheritance tax on homes in her keynote conference speech She also launched a scathing attack on Farage's party, saying Reform MPs were “openly questioning people's identity” based on their race The Tory leader said "we must not let these people take us backwards”

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Senior London Conservatives have called for a “conversation” about scrapping Sadiq Khan’s free school meal programme if the party wins the mayoral election in 2028 "Nothing’s free – those are taxpayer-funded meals," Emma Best, deputy leader of City Hall Tories, said at the party's conference

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