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🚨🇦🇺 NEW: Andy Burnham and Anthony Albanese are set to discuss increasing restrictions on British backpackers using Working Holiday Visas in Australia Proposals include removing an exemption that means Brits don’t have to do rural work to extend their visa as well as the introduction of a migration cap

🚨 Birmingham On Halloween night in Birmingham, innocent people shopfronts and police vehicles on New Street were being shot at with fireworks 🎇

Turns out Daventry have decided to do bonfire night this evening. On Halloween. I detest this idea that our holidays can be watered down to just little spectacles we participate in once a year, and they can be bundled together to save admin headaches. No. These are institutional British holidays and they deserve all the time they need. We spend far too much money and time observing foreign holidays in Britain. If it’s a budgeting issue, stop observing Indian and muslim holidays nationwide. Enough.

Shocked and bloody angry I think... it takes more than that to shake me. I may be a woman, but I'm not the snowflake here.

If you can’t afford to pay your workers the minimum wage, let alone enough to live on, maybe the real problem is that your business model isn’t viable 💀 The way these guys talk about wages as if they’re a discretionary expense and not a basic cost of production is wild to me.

The boss seeing off a pint of Chancellor's Choice after a long day at the office.

🚨 SUMMARY: The OBR forecasts following John Healey's Budget - Welfare spending will rise to £431.3bn by 2030/31 - an increase of £97.5bn a year in cash terms - This includes £209.8bn on pensioner benefits, £110.7bn on Universal Credit, £69.6bn on disability benefits, £13.9bn on Child Benefit and £27.2bn on other welfare - Inflation will peak at 3.75% in early 2027, up from the earlier prediction of 2% - UK GDP growth will slow from around 1.25% in 2026 to 1% in 2027, before climbing to 1.6% in 2031 - Average UK unemployment will rise to 5.1% across 2026 and 2027 - The Employment Rights Act will "likely" have a negative economic impact because of reduced flexibility and greater uncertainty for businesses - The landlord tax increases (property income) could contribute to a long-term rise in private rents and discourage landlords from entering the market - Real household disposable income per person will be around 0.75% lower in 2030-31 than it expected in March 2026 - Higher earnings and frozen tax thresholds will increase income tax and National Insurance receipts by £9bn in 2026-27 and around £8bn on average in subsequent forecast years compared with March - Net migration is forecast to fall to 120,000 in the year to mid-2026, then gradually rise to 230,000 by the year to mid-2031 - Nominal weekly earnings growth will slow to around 3.5% in 2026, then average roughly 2.25% a year - Andy Burnham's first-time buyer scheme could raise house prices by increasing demand without enough new homes being built

I was the first Black woman MP to stand at the ministerial despatch box. Seeing @TaiwoOwatemi, @abenaopp, @Miatsf and @FloEshalomi follow makes me immensely proud. I now hope Parliament’s Black History Month debate must have a permanent place in the diary.

A hard look at Britain’s data suggests so. But it is hardly an epidemic economist.com/britain/2026/1…

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