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“We now need to double-down on this successful model to deliver the real change people across the country are demanding”, writes Labour MP @sarahsmithlab 🗣️ Backing Institutes of Technology can help deliver Labour’s opportunity mission politics.co.uk/mp-comment/202…

“As members of the Lords, we take our responsibility seriously. We must and will do what is necessary to safeguard those who are most vulnerable in our midst”, writes @DavidAltonHL 🗣️ Peers have a duty to scrutinise the flawed assisted suicide bill politics.co.uk/comment/2025/0…

“You want real justice? You want safer streets? You want a system that actually works? Then don’t fall for Reform’s con”, writes Labour MP @BenGoldsborough 🗣️ Reform’s prison plan is a sick joke – and criminals are the ones laughing politics.co.uk/mp-comment/202…

“The CAN Bill may have been blocked this time, but the fight for climate and nature is far from over... We owe it to future generations – and we will keep going”, writes Lib Dem MP @roz_savage 🗣️ Why Britain needs legal guarantees on climate and nature politics.co.uk/mp-comment/202…

🚨 NEW: Farage urged to rule out Liz Truss joining Reform UK after ally’s defection “Reform is looking more like a Truss tribute act every day that goes by”, @LibDems deputy leader @libdemdaisy said Full story ⤵️ politics.co.uk/news/2025/07/1…

“Starmer rose to power punching the left; now the left is fighting back.” politics.co.uk/news-feature/2…

On historic Anglo-French connections: The speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, references former Bolton Wanderers footballer Youri Djorkaeff Macron goes for Montesquieu and Jean-Jacques Rousseau drawing from the works of John Locke

Why Starmer should take the threat posed (to him) by the left schism seriously: politics.co.uk/news-feature/2…

“Polanski and Sultana in particular, are giving political definition, and crucially institutional shape, to progressive disillusion with this Labour government.” politics.co.uk/news-feature/2…

Keir Starmer could learn to fear a left insurgency Labour’s “forgotten flank” could soon become impossible to ignore Latest long-read for @Politics_co_uk 👇 politics.co.uk/news-feature/2…

🚨 NEW: Three out of five people think Keir Starmer does not respect them, poll suggests 33 per cent of the public think Nigel Farage respects them, compared to 24 per cent for both Starmer and Kemi Badenoch Full story ⤵️ politics.co.uk/news/2025/07/0…

🚨 NEW: MPs to vote on making Premier League games free-to-air “For too long, the jewel in the crown of British football has been locked behind an expensive barrier”, @LibDems culture spokesperson @mpmwilko said Full story ⤵️ politics.co.uk/news/2025/07/0…

🚨 ‘Deluded’: Conservatives condemned after strategist says party has ‘done the apologies’ “We’ve done the mea culpas, we’ve done the apologies, we’ve done all that”, Baroness Maclean said in a speech leaked to the Telegraph Full story ⤵️ politics.co.uk/news/2025/07/0…

“Starmer's centralised operation was sustained by the complacent assumption that the sheer size of Labour’s majority would insulate it from internal rebellion. “That belief, along with his flagship welfare bill, lies in tatters on the commons floor.” politics.co.uk/week-in-review…

“It’s surely a personal strength that Starmer has skipped the self-righteous denial phase his predecessors spent whole premierships festering in. His introspection projects both an assured self-awareness and a vulnerability that are rarely visible in PMs.” politics.co.uk/week-in-review…

Labour describes Baroness Maclean’s comments (below) as “completely tone deaf” Party chair @elliereeves says:

Lib Dems respond after Baroness Maclean (Badenoch’s director of strategy) told supporters the Conservative Party has ‘done the apologies’ Deputy leader @libdemdaisy says:

Why Labour ill-discipline flows from its ‘loveless landslide’: “McSweeney’s strategy stuffed parliament with MPs on perilously small majorities. [They are] hyper-aware of constituent complaints: political seismographs attuned to any kind of tremor.” politics.co.uk/week-in-review…

“It is a perverse formula that appears almost uniquely constituted to generate chaos: muddled messaging, disseminated by a detached and distant Downing Street, reflects a self-reinforcing recipe for political dysfunction.” politics.co.uk/week-in-review…

Labour responds to Reform UK’s James McMurdock saga Party chair @elliereeves says: