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Safe to say the Red Wall has pretty much been rebuilt. In South Yorkshire alone, clean sweep for Labour as it regains Rother Valley, Doncaster East and Penistone & Stocksbridge from the Tories.

Today the hard work of changing the lives of the people of Leeds Central and Headingley starts To eradicate Black Mould in homes To eradicate hunger in schools To ensure children can get an autism assessment The future of our children must be better than their past

what’s extraordinary is that Labour from tomorrow will control: - national UK government - Welsh government and the mayoralties of - London - Greater Manchester - North East - West Midlands - East Midlands - West of England - Cambridgeshire - South Yorkshire - North

The (former) prime minister is not under a desk

The Tories have lost the seat held by Truss, and the seats that were held by Johnson (Uxbridge + Henley), Cameron (Witney), and May (Maidenhead). What a rejection of the last 14 years.

Agonised about this 🗳️ and have never voted libdem before.

I mean it’s nuts isn’t it

London, the mayoralties in the second tier cities and wales and Scotland are all solidly labour

The big hitters #torylosses

Rishi Sunak has offered his resignation to The King but Keir Starmer has yet to be appointed as Prime Minister, so who's in charge? Me.

Now record 264 women MPs! Chance to work cross party on women’s priorities.Fawcett Society will convene meeting for all women MPs enabling them to embark on process of setting up powerful Women’s Caucus. *Childcare, *violence against women, *equal pay. Now is the time for change!

Tiens ma biere 🍺

Encouraging speech from Reeves this morning. Not much on fiscal policy, with a major focus on growth. A few thoughts, though do look out for thoughts from my Institute for Government colleagues Sophie Metcalfe Rosa Hodgkin Jill Rutter who are must follows on planning/net zero... 1/

And the The Green Party with their 4 new MPs, including my new MP Carla Denyer Congratulations Greens 💚

The brilliant Professor Katy Shaw from Northumbria Uni and I have a new essay in this collection outlining economic and social benefits universities have on their local communities. Published by UPP Foundation in memory of Lord Bob Kerslake #KerslakeCollection upp-foundation.org/new-essay-coll…

As you’d expect, JamesSmithRF has a chart for this 👇

More cracking number-crunching from Finn Baker and Sachin Savur on how the new government has shaped up. My favourite chart? This beauty showing where the shadow front bench ended up: But there's loads more in the Institute for Government live blog - check it out!

‘having spent a lot of time around government committees, I’m sure they are about the worst tools for making complex decisions’. Lots of tips for a new government on how to do change here from Geoff Mulgan geoffmulgan.com/post/poetry-pr…

Whisper it……..

Our Executive Chair Gavin Kelly discusses the possibility of a 'stability dividend'. This isn't a silver bullet to solve the Government's economic challenges, but it shouldn't be dismissed as wishful thinking either. Watch the full event ⬇️⬇️ youtube.com/watch?v=kQxJ2b…