deputy director @LCEF_UK • all my own views
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Megan Corton Scott retweeted
This will be one of those changes that we look back on and wonder why on earth we didn’t do this long, long ago.
Well done @SadiqKhan for pushing this through.
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🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced five "everyday fixes" ahead of the Budget
1. Carer's Allowance will be changed so carers no longer lose their entire benefit when they earn over the limit - instead, their support will reduce by £1 for every extra £1 they earn
2. Import tariffs will be removed on more than 100 products, including baked beans, chocolate and gherkins, to save households up to £21 on their food shop a year
3. Tax-free mileage rates for workers using their own cars will be made permanent at 55p per mile for the first 10,000 miles, with the rate for additional miles rising from 25p to 35p
4. Parental pay will be extended to over 150,000 more parents a year, including self-employed fathers and partners
5. Hundreds more Post Office drop boxes will be rolled out to save people queueing at branches
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Yesterday, the pedestrianisation of Oxford Street made history, with one of the busiest streets in the UK becoming a greener, healthier and more prosperous place for Londoners and the millions of people who visit every year.
Megan Corton Scott retweeted
A proud moment! This marks an exciting new chapter for one of the most iconic shopping destinations in the world - creating a greener, more vibrant place that will attract visitors and investment, and support businesses and jobs, in the heart of our capital. 🫶🏻
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It’s not worth pretending voters have strong views on existing North Sea oil licenses because they don’t.
The political risk for govt then is in the comms/signalling.
Is Jackdaw received as a pragmatic step along the road to clean energy - or abandoning the cause?
Megan Corton Scott retweeted
I’m proud to back @alistrathern’s Bill to make relationship and sex education mandatory until 18.
Children and young people are already receiving relationship and sex education – through violent pornography and the manosphere.
We must offer them a healthy, positive alternative.
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“She and other office staff were called out from the offices into the stores, to help hand out shovels to the many local men who joined the recovery efforts.”
@VikkiHowells MS on Aberfan, where 60 years on, 2,589 disused coal tips still shadow Welsh towns.
Megan Corton Scott retweeted
Can't deal with Westminster snobbery about things like stories on parking. A *huge* deal to people.
Young people jobs crisis? Let's sort out parking in our town centres to help local business
Cost of living? Tell that to the family hit by a £100 fine
Megan Corton Scott retweeted
Economic Secretary to the Treasury @LucyRigby reflects on taking life seriously, the rapid pace of her political career and why successful women’s achievements are so often framed through “resilience” and “hard work”.
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🚨 NEW: The Government has announced headphone dodgers on trains will face fines of up to £1,000 as a nationwide campaign launches today
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Delighted to have our Climate and Energy Programme Manager Imogen Shaw contribute an essay to the Fabian's new pamphlet - do give it a read if you have a second 👇
Our new pamphlet: GROWTH
Featuring a foreword by the growth minister, @dantomlinsonmp , the pamphlet brings together authors from across a vast swathe of the left and centre to explore how Britain can put its economy back on track.
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NEW:
From Bangkok, IMF World Economic Outlook released…
- Upgrades UK growth this year by 0.3% to 1.3%, joint second highest in G7, defying the idea the UK would be hardest hit by Iran war… but inflation higher and growth trimmed next year
- UK “stands out” on deficit reduction, IMF Chief economist tells me, as its figures show a 3.9% point fall in deficit from 2025-2031, significantly more than other G7 nations, with 3 of them actually increasing their deficits over this time.
- IMF says UK should “stay course” on fiscal plans, Chancellor arrives tomorrow
- overall story of resilience in world economy, despite the clouds from the Gulf, as AI boosts US, Asia and UK to some degree… energy and trade proving flexible in dealing with shocks
Megan Corton Scott retweeted
So delighted for you Molly - you will be an excellent councillor.
Thank you to all colleagues, friends, members, volunteers and the wider labour family for supporting team @LambethLabour
SO so proud to be elected as the @LambethLabour Cllr for Myatt’s Fields. 🌹
It’s been a local campaign focussed on local issues and hope. I’m so excited to represent Myatt’s on @lambeth_council and carry on the work of our brilliant late colleague, Annie. ❤️
Megan Corton Scott retweeted
SO so proud to be elected as the @LambethLabour Cllr for Myatt’s Fields. 🌹
It’s been a local campaign focussed on local issues and hope. I’m so excited to represent Myatt’s on @lambeth_council and carry on the work of our brilliant late colleague, Annie. ❤️
Megan Corton Scott retweeted
Congratulations to Councillor Molly Hartill, the new Labour councillor for Myatt’s Fields 🌹
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This year was our hottest summer on record - but did it shift the dial on climate action?
@Persuasion_UK have an excellent article out today covering some of their ongoing work with LCEF on voters' appetite for climate action.
buff.ly/sMEEo81
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We have a new article out today in @break_downradio, discussing our work on salience and climate attitudes:
break-down.org/making-people…