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Yusuf is right about one thing. British people have historically been willing to "sacrifice for the greater good". That's why we fought fascists like him. #bbcqt

The Tory says he's often asked where all the money on the NHS goes. I bet he doesn't tell them the truth that under their government a lot of it went to their friends for useless PPE. #politicslive

Not everyone got paid to do nothing during Covid Badenoch. Pretty much all of those nasty public sector workers carried on working. Maybe that's a reason why they deserved the first above inflation pay rise in 14 years. #r4today

Mel Stride: a great advert for private school education making you spout nonsense very confidently. #spendingreview

Not one of the Reform UK MPs supported the condemnation of racist violence in Northern Ireland at #PMQs

Badenoch: "every week I come here to tell him the truth". At what point on her journey does she change her mind? #pmqs

I live in London. I can't really complain about the transport system. The worst that can happen is a Tory who tried to get away with £45m corruption harranges poor people for fare dodging. #politicslive

Listening to the ever hyper critical Chris Mason I think Labour must be doing something right to pee the rich right winger off so much. #r4today

"What's the Tory party policy on this?" Tory woman: "I don't know what the Labour policy on this is." Pointless asking her on #politicslive. She can't answer anything.

The Tory MP wants Labour to apologise for the U-turn on the winter fuel allowance. What a nerve. When's the Tory apology for no U-turn on 14 years of austerity? #politicslive

Zia Yusuf has only been working hard for 11 months and claims to be exhausted. The people he's going to be hounding in local councils have been attempting to cover multiple jobs over the past 14 years. They know exhaustion. Hopefully they won't be too exhausted to tell him to f* off. #r4today

He's right isn't he? #bbclaurak x.com/campbellclar...

The BBC can't get enough of Reform finishing third in a by-election, but don't touch this with a barge pole. #r4today www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Even the sports people on #r4today take the wrong side. #spurs #levyneedstogo.

Lisa Nandy really needs to get her finger out and clear the Reform UK fan club out of the BBC. #r4today

Tice claims the UK is a "Christian based" society. He's of course wrong about our history (heard of Stonehenge?) and wrong about us now - fewer than half are Christians and the second highest group is of no religion. A shame #r4today couldn't bring itself to point that out.

You're failing into Tice's trap of arguing about the burqa when the better question would be about the DOGE antics which will make Kent Council inefficient. Bad move #r4today

I told my now 22 year old son about Thatcher. His first teacher told me he'd said Thatcher had stolen children's milk when I first met her. "That's my boy" I thought! #politicslive

It's a shame that Henry Zeffman wasn't around earlier in #politicslive to hear Luke Tryl say the two child cap is much more accepted in focus groups discussing child poverty than in a simple question of yes or no.

Presumably Trump thinks we're playing around with the trade deal because our government goes through democratic processes and Starmer doesn't just sign an executive order. #r4today

Thames Water seems to be trying to improve its finances by doubling users' direct debits. After a 4 hour stand off on WhatsApp, I got through to the complaints dept who suggested I pay for the water I have used. Greed means they don't get any advance payment. They're not helping themselves. #t4today

Bell Ribeiro-Addy talking sense about the Channel boats. She needs to persuade her govt to do as she recommends - process applications before they get in the boats. #newsnight