Robert Peston on ITV News falsely claiming that "certainly in terms of the economics, it's pretty clear that we are A LOT POORER as a result of leaving the EU" All real world evidence shows this to be completely untrue.

Kemi Badenoch said she was Nigeria's national chess champion at age 7. So we sent a reporter to Nigeria to find out the truth. She lied. Here is everything else she has lied about:

Kemi Badenoch said she was Nigeria's national chess champion at age 7. So we sent a reporter to Nigeria to find out the truth. She lied. Here is everything else she has lied about:

Pretty funny. @Jacob_Rees_Mogg thinks Russia has a smaller economy than Britain. It is almost twice the size. It is hard to convey how delusional many people in London are… 🇬🇧

All your Triple Lock questions answered: - what is the new policy - why it’s a ‘triple lock’ - why pensioner poverty is expected to fall in the 2030s torstenbell.substack.com/p/t…

I’ll be honest, it never once occurred to me that ‘English’ was a race rather than a nationality. The English are a mongrel race of Normans, Germanic tribes and Anglo Saxons who themselves were a melting pot of old English, Danes etc

Kidnapper convicted of FIFTY crimes since arriving illegally aged 14 wins bid to stay in UK as judge rules he'd be 'mistreated' in Kosovo for being Roma trib.al/CFtrBB6

As an 86 yr old Pensioner, who was employed all my working life, I notice Burnham wants to remove the triple lock. He has lost my vote and I wonder how many other Pensioners feel the same.

I want to be honest about how we’ve got to a place where British billpayers are paying some of the highest energy costs in Europe. Over the past 40 years, we’ve given up control of our necessities, outsourced our essentials and privatised the basics. Water, transport, housing. And of course, energy. Now the public are paying the price. We haven’t invested in the infrastructure we need. Conflict overseas has pushed up energy costs and it’s hurting our businesses and families. That’s why we need to take back greater control of our energy system. This week, I announced Great British Grid, which will speed up connections and push down bills. We’re also giving mayors, local leaders and communities a stronger role. With funding for People’s Power projects, communities will be able to build solar panels on libraries and town halls, hydro schemes in rivers or publicly owned windfarms on local land. But it’s not just energy we need stronger public control over. It’s also water, housing, transport and care. So we’re repealing the ban on public ownership of water companies. We’re building more council homes than this country has seen since the end of World War Two. We’re reforming the leasehold system so families aren’t squeezed for every penny. And we’re opening up home ownership for first time buyers who can’t rely on the bank of mum and dad. This week I also announced my determination to introduce a National Care Service, to put people above profit and to give pensioners peace of mind. Together, we’ll rewire the country from top to bottom so that it works for all people in all places. That is the only way to put Britain back on the right path. It’s the only way to put power back in people’s hands. And it’s the only way we will bring hope again.

**EXCLUSIVE** Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak met a senior UK government minister to discuss the UAE’s investments in Britain just days before the club’s guilty verdicts were announced. Al Mubarak asked to meet Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds on 14 September in his capacity as CEO of Mubadala Investment Company, the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, sources tell Bloomberg. The pair held a private meeting in Downing Street on that date, the people said. Al Mubarak talked about current and future UAE investment in Britain, they said. The conversation covered the full range of the relationship including defence, security, intelligence and trade, they said. Eleven days later, on 25 September, the Athletic reported Man City had been found guilty of breaking Premier League rules. On 29 September, the Premier League confirmed Manchester City had been found guilty of artificially boosting its balance sheet by more than £900 million. The fact of the meeting so close to the verdict will raise further questions about the UK government’s handling of the case. Andy Burnham has faced criticism, including from his own ministers and officials, after he publicly suggested Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners should not be disqualified from running the club because of the investment they bring to Britain. Earlier, Bloomberg reported that Emirati officials have warned the UK government that the severity of the ruling could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale commitments in Britain. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Today @G7 members have agreed coordinated measures to stabilise energy supplies, build resilience in supply chains and shield households and businesses from price shocks. We agreed to: - Release strategic reserves of 100m barrels, coordinated by the IEA - Maximise global refinery production - A joint commitment to refrain from export restrictions between G7 countries. - Calling for the immediate and full restoration of navigational rights and principles in the Strait of Hormuz Full statement below 👇 gov.uk/government/news/g7-le…

Exclusive: A Conservative shadow minister has privately called for the pension triple lock to be replaced by an “entirely new” system. Katie Lam, the shadow communities secretary, said there needed to be a “radical” shake-up of the coalition-era policy that Andy Burnham has committed to reforming. A leaked recording obtained by The Times from June (when she held a different front-bench role) reveals her response to a question at a Tory association event about the triple lock policy. “Ultimately I think what we will need in the end is an entirely new pension system,” she said. “I mean, a baby that is born today has a 20 per cent chance of living to be 100 and I don’t think we can fund one in five people half of their lives, you know, for the first 20 and the last 30 years. But obviously if you are 90 you probably can’t go out and get a job right, so I think you have to be realistic about how you would taper that and bring that in across the population.” She added: “I just think the whole system as it stands can’t stand for very much longer.” The comments appear to break from Badenoch’s position, which is that pensions should continue to rise in line with the triple lock, by 2.5 per cent, average earnings or inflation, whichever is highest. Lam said that “ultimately” the pensions system would be more likely to have to rely on private schemes. She said: “Some of the coalition changes around private pension contribution rates are like directionally the right ones. I think ultimately we will just need to have individual pots that people have for themselves, private sector pensions, Sipps [self-invested personal pension], all of that kind of thing. “Maybe some sort of annuity product that’s, like, guaranteed by the government or something like that, I don’t know. But it’s hard to imagine like, the triple lock for me is a bit like in the immigration system, like changing the conditions of a specific visa or, I think we need something more radical and less incremental than that.” Public spending had risen dramatically as a percentage of GDP since 2010, according to Lam, who told attendees: “We have to have honesty and humility about the fact that that happened under a Conservative leadership.” She added: “The state is just going to have to do dramatically less, which I suppose comes onto the pensions point.” Her comments reflect the private view of some senior Tories. Tom Tugendhat, the shadow foreign secretary, said when he was a backbencher last November that the triple lock was “simply not affordable”. After Burnham’s announcement that he would remove an annual earnings link in the next parliament, the Conservatives launched an appeal to “help us fight him”. A petition launched by the party this week said: “Pensioners built this country. They worked hard, paid in and did the right thing. They live on fixed incomes. Most cannot work,. That is why the Conservatives invented the triple lock. Because we recognise contribution.” Approached today about the comments, Lam said: “Our commitment to the triple lock is clear and unwavering. It is farcical that the prime minister wants to take away money from pensioners while billions are being spent on foreign nationals who have never paid into the system, and on people who choose not to work. “Andy Burnham needs to focus on slashing the welfare bill, not on ideological attacks on pensioners. As I said in my full answer to the question, if you’re going to change the pension system for people who did actually pay in all of their lives, you’ve got to start by not giving benefits to people who aren’t Brits, and getting people back to work.”

The quotes from Gary Smith, the general secretary of the GMB union, in this interview with @Geri_E_L_Scott are quite something The Department for Energy and Net Zero is 'basically the ministry for P45s' The government is relying on 'sticking-plaster politics' while companies are struggling with high energy costs. 'It's not credible. Batshit crazy' Smith is urging ministers to approve new North Sea oil and gas projects or lose out on billions in investment