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It’s absolutely right to exempt care workers from longer Indefinite Leave To Remain period. UK needs overseas care workers. My family depended on carers for 6 years - Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Philippines. They were hard working and kind.
Mahmood expected to announce changes to rules around indefinite leave to remain bbc.in/3UYreMX
Labour MP, Emma Reynolds, has no idea small business owners are some of the hardest working people in the country. It’s high stress knowing you need enough cash to pay your employees every month. If Treasury minister doesn’t know employers are also working people - what hope?
'I don't think employers are working people.'
@CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget.
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Cathryn Rees retweeted
Bridget, telling lies is a breach of the Ministerial Code.
It's well known from your time as Education Secretary (before your demotion!) that you struggle with the truth.
As the then junior minister responsible for financial services regulation, I was not even remotely a 'co-author' of the mini budget. I did not see it until the night before.
I’m flattered that my decades of real-world business experience outside Westminster trigger so many Labour MPs. It’ll be useful when the next Conservative government has to clean up your mess!
(P.S. Mortgage rates are higher now than in 2022…)
Many of the issues around covid and care/nursing homes may be coming from poorly managed homes. My mother lived in a @Bupa nursing home, who were excellent through the whole pandemic. It was tough not being able to visit, but I have no issues.
UK public Covid inquiry rejects ministers' claims of 'protective ring' around care homes at start of pandemic bbc.in/4z4fU0E
And what will this do for the economy and jobs? Who will enforce it?
This is tinkering with populist measures to distract from having very little on the big issues.
What a fab jolly on the taxpayers account. There is work to do in Poplar & Limehouse.
Was Tulip Siddiq on the agenda?
In Dhaka last week, the APPG on Bangladesh delegation held frank and full conversations with Government officials & Ministers – on matters ranging from women’s rights to parliamentary democracy.
We thank the President of Bangladesh, Parliamentary authorities and government officials for their reception.
Did they hire The Thick Of It script writers for this? Shame they @Ed_Miliband and @JohnHealey_MP didn’t have anything better to do at te IMF. Maybe no world leaders had time for them.
Overheard a mother & son convo - intelligent, well educated. She a teacher, him a graduate. Discussing government proposals on pensions, social care & tax. No clue how it currently works or costs if self-funding care. Govt has lot of work to do for people to vote for change
The last paragraph - “That's exactly the kind of thing I want this government to keep on fixing”
Sums up his government. Tinkering with small, populist measures because they can’t/won’t do anything to fix national finances and economy.
You know that feeling when you book a flight for 50 quid and somehow it ends up costing 100?
Getting seats together, correcting a typo, another charge here and there, it all adds up.
When the cost of living is already squeezing people, those endless extras can feel relentless.
So we're changing the rules for you.
Parents won't need to pay a penny extra just to sit next to their own children.
You'll be able to fix any name errors on your booking free of charge.
And because the last thing you want once you're on the plane is more stress, we're working with the industry to make sure that disruptive passengers who have been banned from one airline can be banned from flying with other airlines too.
I know holidays are expensive and these are small things, but hopefully they'll make your trip just that little bit cheaper and easier.
That's exactly the kind of thing I want this government to keep on fixing.
If Andy Burnham think this is the answer to the UK’s problems and will win him the next election - he needs to read the replies to his post.
You know that feeling when you book a flight for 50 quid and somehow it ends up costing 100?
Getting seats together, correcting a typo, another charge here and there, it all adds up.
When the cost of living is already squeezing people, those endless extras can feel relentless.
So we're changing the rules for you.
Parents won't need to pay a penny extra just to sit next to their own children.
You'll be able to fix any name errors on your booking free of charge.
And because the last thing you want once you're on the plane is more stress, we're working with the industry to make sure that disruptive passengers who have been banned from one airline can be banned from flying with other airlines too.
I know holidays are expensive and these are small things, but hopefully they'll make your trip just that little bit cheaper and easier.
That's exactly the kind of thing I want this government to keep on fixing.
This will just mean the selection fee is built into the up front prices. More expensive prices for everybody, including solo fliers who don’t care where they sit on a short flight. Airlines aren’t going to give up the revenue. It does nothing for the cost of living.
You know that feeling when you book a flight for 50 quid and somehow it ends up costing 100?
Getting seats together, correcting a typo, another charge here and there, it all adds up.
When the cost of living is already squeezing people, those endless extras can feel relentless.
So we're changing the rules for you.
Parents won't need to pay a penny extra just to sit next to their own children.
You'll be able to fix any name errors on your booking free of charge.
And because the last thing you want once you're on the plane is more stress, we're working with the industry to make sure that disruptive passengers who have been banned from one airline can be banned from flying with other airlines too.
I know holidays are expensive and these are small things, but hopefully they'll make your trip just that little bit cheaper and easier.
That's exactly the kind of thing I want this government to keep on fixing.
‘Free personal care’ - @Miatsf is disingenuous. Care home operators will allocate more costs to the residential pot, self-funders will continue to subsidise state/local authority provision.
The nursing care element of residential care (FNC) is currently set at £246 per week. Residential care for a self funded can be £2500 per week. @Miatsf surely knows this, she’s not transparent @bbcquestiontime @JuliaLopezMP gets it.
What hubris. Speaking about unity and one Labour. She was instrumental in the move against Keir Starmer.
Is the Prime Minister suggesting we let Man City off and accept corruption, to keep Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mansour happy. Where does that end? #Manchesterism
My father had Alzheimer’s is the new my father was a tool maker/bus driver. #LabourConference