“Am I gonna get arrested? We’ve got English flags on here Rachel!” @TheSun interviewed Chancellor Rachel Reeves which caused quite a stir at Leeds petrol station… Have to say this is the most hilarious clip I’ve seen all day!

Hearts are welcomed back to Tynecastle by a defiant support. Defeat to Celtic on the final day of the season ended their hopes of bringing home the club's first top flight title since 1960. #BBCFootball

Restore Britain will be standing a candidate in the Makerfield by-election. There is overwhelming demand from our local members to do so, and I entirely agree. Our campaign has already started, and we aim to win thousands and thousands of votes. More news very soon.

When Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg danced to Single Ladies with Beyoncé on SNL in 2008.

Read my letter to my constituents below:

For decades, Westminster has overseen the managed decline of towns like mine. We have talked big, then acted small, stuck in a politics of incrementalism that cannot meet the moment. We have lost the trust of those our party was built to serve. It is my unwavering belief that nothing short of urgent, radical, courageous reform will make a difference. That must start with a change in leadership. Today, I am putting the people I represent and the country I love first and will be resigning as MP for Makerfield. I am standing aside so that Andy Burnham can return to his home, fight to re-enter Parliament, and if elected, drive the change our country is crying out for. This has not been an easy decision. This is my family’s home, where only a few weeks ago, doctors and nurses at Wigan Infirmary saved our newborn son’s life. But we all must make choices and in recent days I found myself with a difficult one: defend the status quo or step forward and act. I have made my choice. I am in politics because politics is how you change lives for the better. My party has one last chance to do that: deliver for the people and places I represent, drive economic growth, secure our borders, reform our state and politics, and change a status quo that is not working. That is the fight. I believe Andy is the one to lead it.

🚨 | Stephen Gethins (SNP) has 'resigned' as an MP (appointed to be Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds) after being elected to Holyrood last week. A By-Election will be held in his Arbroath and Broughty Ferry Constituency.

Nigel Farage claims the details of a £5m donation “shouldn’t even be public” and states it was an unconditional “reward for campaigning for Brexit”. Previously Reform UK have said the donation was to cover Mr Farage’s security costs for life

Wes Streeting’s decision not to mount a leadership challenge and to call for for a “broad” contest with the “best possible field of candidates” can be explained by one or both of these factors: 1) He doesn’t have the numbers 2) A fundamental calculation, voiced within the Streeting camp, that the only way he can win the Labour leadership is by….winning. That means being the best candidate against all comers. This is the thinking among some in his camp: Wes Streeting’s politics are not perceived to be the politics of the majority of the Labour membership who get the final vote if there is no Westminster coronation. So Wes Streeting has to win every hustings, win every TV debate and persuade party members of two things: - His politics are their politics - He is a winner And the Streeting camp have been looking at last year’s Labour deputy leadership contest to challenge the idea that any contest is a shoe in for the soft left. One figure tells me that Lucy Powell, who was perceived as the more soft left candidate simply by dint of having been sacked from the cabinet, didn’t win overwhelmingly against Bridget Phillipson. It was 54% to 46%. The feeling is that Bridget Phillipson, seen as the least soft left candidate even though her politics are pretty similar to Lucy Powell’s, did much better than might have been expected despite the mood at the time. So the calculation among some in the Wes Streeting camp is: - The Labour deputy leadership contest shows there is a good vote to build on - The best way to win is to win by beating all comers