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Not a good look that Badenoch has to resort to this.

“[Farage] is overseeing a bin fire – yet wants you to believe that Reform can be trusted with running your local bin collections.”

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey says the French government's demand of wanting more access to fish in British waters 'shows that the government have made a mistake in our relationship with Europe'. #R4Today

A reminder that it was never going to just end with trans rights. Now we’re on to “deserving” and “undeserving” mental health issues.

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In County Durham whilst Labour and Tory votes have totally collapsed across the board, only hard working Lib Dem incumbents have held off the Reform surge. #AtTheCount

Chris Mason describes yesterday’s results as “breaking the duopoly of British politics”, as if we didn’t elect the largest ever third party last July (72 ⁦Liberal Democrats⁩ MPs?!). There will be studies of the BBC’s role in Farage’s rise in years to come. bbc.co.uk/news/live/c39j…

first time in electoral history that neither the tories or labour have been in the top 2 in the local elections

🧵 / The 2025 local elections in historical perspective Reform's gains were undeniably seismic, shaking the party system to its core and central to a level of turnover unseen in any post-reform local elections. The net partisan churn is 54%, approaching double 1981's 30%.

Lewis Goodall And another oddity from Durham. 25% of the Labour Group is the former Lib Dem leader of Wear Valley District Council, (and entertainer Victoria Wood’s half-brother), Chris Foote-Wood.

"I'm proud it's the Liberal Democrats taking on Reform" Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey says his party is going to "hold Reform to account" on local councils #BBCLauraK bbc.in/44huntE

"The case for electoral reform is stronger than it's ever been... We need system change." Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey on Sky News today 👇

Absolutely delighted to get to do the BelfastCityMarathon in my home town today: a long held aspiration and a massive ✅ in the box. Got round in a personal best of 3:48.55, so the pints afterwards were well earned..!

My colleague Amanda is absolutely spot on here. Reform have written slogans without looking at the detail, have promised what they can’t deliver, and will struggle to lead the council effectively. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Reform clarifies flag policy after red rose row bbc.in/44refG8

LibDem MP Max Wilkinson makes an important Point of Order, "During #PMQs I was sitting behind Nigel Farage I made some comments related to his second earnings" "A Reform UK social media account digitally manipulated those comments to give the appearance that I had described

I'm sure we will hear on this important development soon from our two new mayor's in the region. BBC News - Clean energy mission blow as Hornsea 4 windfarm cancelled - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Sound analysis theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Long past time that other parties were added to this polling question.