Kevin McKenna MP

🔴 ‘Delivering growth in every postcode relies on good logistics’ Rachel Taylor MP on the importance of the logistics sector to Britain's economic foundations... labourlist.org/2026/10/grow...

Carers allowed to earn over the weekly limit without losing out as ‘cliff-edge’ abolished in the budget

Oh well done Harry. Nice one

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The UK: no but why *should* we have 3 days of basic food and water in? What are they not telling us? Also the UK:

What is Kemi Badenoch’s new big idea? Exactly the same as the Conservatives’ old big idea: unfunded tax cuts. It’s the lack of imagination as much as the fiscal incontinence that stands out torstenbell.substack.com/p/kemis-big-...

Spookily for me I first met Andy at a similar push for people to get the flu jab, back when I was a practicing nurse at @uclh.bsky.social and he was Secretary of State Our chief nurse then thought I didn’t give quite the right impression for publicity shots due to my tattoos. How the world turns 😆

Today, I asked the Prime Minister about what further action can be taken to bring Craig and Lindsay home ⬇️

Headlines of labour market stats reinforce resilience of UK economy this year: - employment rate ⬆️ by 0.2% to 75.3% - amongst the highest on record - unemployment rate down⬇️ 0.1% - inactivity ⬇️ 0.1% in the latest quarter (and a full 1% since 2024 election)

Proud to have successfully proposed the #Movember local government men's health charter with Cllr Mark Joy so @medway-council.bsky.social is the 1️⃣st Local Authority to adopt it. Thanks to those who shared powerful personal testimony and inspiring local organisations movember.com/news/movember-…

Sadly not much shocks me anymore about the far right, but this is sickening. The quotes from the Reform councillors about people who aren’t white or muslim are abhorrent. And I’m sure this man would still call himself a ‘patriot.’

New IMF forecasts tell you 2 things about UK economy. Firstly, the British economy has proved resilient in face of the Iran conflict: IMF have UK growth as joint second fastest in G7 this year (forget forecasts, in hard data we’ve seen the fastest growth in G7 so far this year)

Second, something way too often missed by commentators: the UK is doing more than anyone else in G7 to strengthen our public finances. We are delivering the fastest fiscal consolidation in the G7 and forecast to have the smallest deficit in 2031

I think this is often driven by media class overcompensation for fear of metropolitan bias: a lack of proper engagement across geography, social class lines leads to a weird caricature of public opinion, as if the radicalised online group must be speaking up for authentic public opinion

It was odd to discover how many liberal-left, centrist, conservative right opinion formers did not know how broad the consensus on this question was when the 'can Sunak be English' debate began **18 months** ago already!

After launching #PutinTax, I have co-authored a piece with Tom Keatinge @rusi.bsky.social It calls for three actions: 1. What gets measured, gets done 2. Publish an annual assessment 3. A report should include action rusi.org/explore-our-re… We will keep up the campaign.

Not only a fringe view currently being aggressively promoted for desperate reasons, it’s not even an interesting talking point as most pub conversations settled this decades ago. Less than 16% support for the (nonsensical in the case of Englishness) race essentialist view. Boring as well as nasty

The Pinkas memorial in Prague is truly sobering. Every name on the wall is one of the over 77,000 Czech Jews killed in the Holocaust. The names pass through multiple rooms and go up the stairs. Each name written alongside their family was someone with hopes, dreams, hobbies & loved ones. #neveragain

I guess it counts as a quirky historical irony that the Isle of Sheppey, the Isle of Sheep, is now one of the palest parts of the UK on this map. Or maybe the Saxons had a prototypical British sense of humour?

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What you need to know about changes to the state pension 👇 The most important one: it will keep rising every single year.

For years, we've rightly focused on the military and political threat posed by Putin's Russia. But there's another cost that receives far less attention. A hidden cost paid by British taxpayers, businesses and public services. It's called the Putin Tax. 🧵

Read why the Tory announcement on an iron dome is already falling apart in my piece in the Mirror. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

If you’re going to promise an iron dome you better make sure it’s not an iron colander.

It is deeply irresponsible for any politician, let alone a senior Conservative, to peddle the same far-right nonsense about Luton that we see from the likes of Yaxley Lennon and Reform.

“We suddenly thought maybe if we record it, we’d bring it down to make it more electronic and more intimate.” Neil and Chris explain why it took more than a decade to bring the new version of "A man from the future" to life. The album is out this Friday. wmg.lnk.to/psb-amftf

Saw this at the Proms when they first premiered it 12 years ago, so been waiting a long time to hear it again It was a very intense, powerful & fun piece in that version, so very keen to hear how they’ve developed it further Plenty of lessons for today from Turing himself and what was done to him

The Tories’ position on pensions is falling apart. A Shadow Cabinet member wants to replace the State Pension as we know it with something that offers 'dramatically less'. Only Labour will protect a rising state pension while building a new National Care Service. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Sarah’s reaction isn’t surprising. We all know the criteria she uses & that Reform’s constant two-tier refrain reveals rather more about how they see the world than how our police & courts do This incident should have been a much bigger wake-up call to all of us. Instead it was too often downplayed

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."