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‘Promised subsidy to cover reduced fees for EU undergraduates has failed to win over universities and is difficult to defend politically, say experts’
timeshighereducation.com/new…
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This is an abomination.
It is being done in our name. We are paying the people doing this.
Our government is a disgrace
The UK *nominated* Iran to join this committee.
Why @Ed_Miliband? Is this what you shook hands over?
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The UK *nominated* Iran to join this committee.
Why @Ed_Miliband? Is this what you shook hands over?
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***EXCLUSIVE by @MishalHusain***
David Cameron says Britain should NOT rejoin the EU
The former prime minister warns Andy Burnham that starting a conversation about rejoining would be “very long and painful”
Speaking in a Bloomberg interview, Cameron urges Burnham not to trigger another “decade-long debate about whether should be in or out.” He also says the UK should not enter a customs union with the EU
As the PM who led the Remain campaign in 2016, Cameron’s intervention will be seen as significant. He says Britain’s economic problems aren’t due to Brexit
“Today, instead of launching an argument about rejoining, which I think would be a very long and painful argument, and who knows where it would end up, instead of that, focus on how do we be the best friend, best neighbour, best partner,” Cameron says
The former PM also warns Burnham that talking about Britain rejoining could hamper future negotiations
“If you start endlessly producing this idea that we’re actually on a path to rejoining, I think you’re in danger of getting a less good partnership deal because of course the EU countries will just think: well, these guys are gonna rejoin anyway, so what’s the point in giving them a good partnership deal… If you’re not going to, you know, commit to trying to make the partnership stronger because you’re flirting with rejoining, I think there’s some dangers there,” Cameron says
“I don’t think actually necessarily joining a customs union is the right answer. If you look at the economic problems we have today, I don’t really think they’ve got anything to do with Brexit at all. I mean, our economic problems are we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulated, and far too much being spent on working age welfare. Those are a set of problems that have nothing to do with Brexit. We need a government that actually gets spending under control, gets taxes down, helps entrepreneurs, deals with our borrowing problem, reforms the welfare, and massively deregulates so we can build houses, build infrastructure. None of those have got anything to do with Europe. So that’s sort of, in a way, that’s my point. Do we really want to go into another decade-long debate about whether we should be in or out, when actually we should deal with our own problems while making the partnership model work?”
“I fought the campaign to stay in on an amended basis, and I obviously wanted to win that campaign. I was desperately disappointed that we lost that campaign. But I’m a democrat, a believer in democracy. We voted to leave, and I think the right thing now is to try and become, you know, not just neighbors, partners, and friends of the EU, but the best friends, the best neighbors, the best partners. And I think we can make that work”
Story by @ChaplainChloe: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Just realised I've missed Russell Brand on #Newsnight
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Lucy Powell can easily explain it was a mistake to associate the Labour Party with Russell Brand without making the easily falsifiable claim that 2015 was not ‘the social media age’.
Just be honest.
Lucy Powell on the Ed Miliband Russell Brand interview
Sophy Ridge: In 2015, Ed Miliband was interviewed by Russell Brand. And he was invited over to his house to do it. It's been reported that you were the one who set up the interview. Is that true and do you regret it?
Lucy Powell: Look, I mean, it wasn't quite like that. It was a long time ago, obviously. And had I or Ed Miliband or anybody at the time had any sense at all that this was someone who was a sexual predator, who was involved in these sorts of crimes or any allegations that were known at the time, then, of course, that interview I'm sure would not have happened, history would have been very, very, different. Those things unfortunately, weren't known at the time. But I think, like anybody who paid to go to his show or watched him on TV, or who was his employer at the time, who had interactions with him, anybody, including those of us who were involved in that at the time,would look back and really regret that, knowing today what we now know
Sophy Ridge: You were campaign chief, did you set it up? Were you involved in the process?
Lucy Powell: Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren't in the social media age at the time - where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn't know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.
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A Labour MP texts:
“I cannot believe, or sadly I can, that the PM has said there should be a rape unit in every police force when he presided over the abolition of the Greater Manchester one when he was Mayor”.
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Labour’s Lucy Powell, trying to explain why she was complicit on Ed Miliband interview with Brand in 2015, says a)it was before social media; and b) there was no easy way of checking on people in these days.
Which is strange since a) she’d been on social media since 2009 and by 2015 it was in full swing; and b) Google has been available since 2000.
Other than that her explanation is entirely credible.
Russell Brand: The shameful truth about those who turned a blind eye
youtu.be/5hfFwqW_e9s?si=2gXy… via @YouTube
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THIS 👇👇👇👇
The proposed Conversion Practices bill risks an authoritarian government usurping the role of parents in their children’s lives. It may also be the biggest threat to gay rights since Section 28: my column in @heraldscotland
heraldscotland.com/politics/…
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Educ' Sec @lucypowell says they had not known as so much about #RussellBrand when she fixed his fawning audience with @Ed_Miliband 2 years earlier Brand boasted he had raped a woman. so much for low threshold
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I've said it before, but come and spend a couple of hours with me in Manchester @rustyrockets You might get a different perspective.
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"These Left-wing men show us what they believe time and time again – women are disposable. Men such as these care desperately about trans women (other men) and “sex workers” (who they like to decriminalise), but forget the rest." @suzanne_moore 🎯
On point from @suzanne_moore:
Russell Brand’s reckoning should be the undoing of Owen Jones
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
If she had done any checking she would have known!
Education secretary Lucy Powell says if she and Ed Miliband had known what they know now they wouldn’t have done the interview with Russell Brand.
The interview was in 2015 when Ed Miliband was Labour leader Lucy Powell was his chief of staff at the time.
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So yes but she did no due diligence or like Owen Jones thought it a price worth paying.
Lucy Powell on the Ed Miliband Russell Brand interview
Sophy Ridge: In 2015, Ed Miliband was interviewed by Russell Brand. And he was invited over to his house to do it. It's been reported that you were the one who set up the interview. Is that true and do you regret it?
Lucy Powell: Look, I mean, it wasn't quite like that. It was a long time ago, obviously. And had I or Ed Miliband or anybody at the time had any sense at all that this was someone who was a sexual predator, who was involved in these sorts of crimes or any allegations that were known at the time, then, of course, that interview I'm sure would not have happened, history would have been very, very, different. Those things unfortunately, weren't known at the time. But I think, like anybody who paid to go to his show or watched him on TV, or who was his employer at the time, who had interactions with him, anybody, including those of us who were involved in that at the time,would look back and really regret that, knowing today what we now know
Sophy Ridge: You were campaign chief, did you set it up? Were you involved in the process?
Lucy Powell: Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren't in the social media age at the time - where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn't know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.
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Owen Jones said he was ‘willing to overlook’ Russell Brand’s behaviour. The BBC failed to investigate his indecent exposure. TV execs knew he was harassing women. This is a huge scandal. Brand is the Jimmy Savile of the liberal elite, says Brendan O’Neill
buff.ly/9VYWzI9
Thought they were going to fix the NHS. Turns out winter is a bad time for health whatever govt in control. Bugs aren’t ideological shock.
Time to be honest here we could double the number of doctors / nurses overnight bug that would not create bigger hospitals , more wards or bigger A&E.Population explosion v no hospitals built.
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@DefenceGeek has been covering the situation in bases in the UK all day. ⚡️
UPDATE: US Assets at RAF Mildenhall Dispersing
This map and list of airframes will likely be updated later tonight/tomorrow, but given heavy fog and technical issues with remaining aircraft on the ground, here's a summary of what has moved out so far.
@MATA_osint
