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Will Jones retweeted
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband: 'I want to say to the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere, who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people. We hear you. You were right'
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Will Jones retweeted
#DevolutionDelivers | We're investing in a brand-new fleet of buses to make travel more comfortable for the hundreds of thousands of people who use them each day.
We now have 108 new all-electric buses on key routes, offering public transport that’s kinder to the environment. And there are hundreds more new buses to come, painted in our familiar yellow and grey colours and packed with great new features.
Watch this video to see the future of bus travel on Liverpool City Region’s roads. You may be surprised by the comfortable, modern, accessible interiors that were designed with the help of passengers and user groups.
All this has been made possible through devolution – along with £2 bus fares, a new £500m train fleet and your new £26m Ferry ‘Cross The Mersey.
And from September 6 we’ll start taking back control of the city region’s bus network, adding more services and more brand-new buses and putting people and communities before profit.
Will Jones retweeted
Tunnels pandering to NIMBYs is a big reason why HS2 will now cost up to £456,000,000 per km: 14x more than France, 8x more than Germany and 22x more than China.
Britain's 3rd, 4th and 5th biggest cities: Manchester, Glasgow and Leeds have been cut from the network.
A disgrace.
The last of over 5,000 reinforced concrete segments has been lifted into position for the Chipping Warden 'green tunnel' - marking a major milestone for one of the longest 'cut and cover' tunnels on the project 👇🎥.
Set to stretch for one-and-a-half miles, the tunnel is being built inside a cutting, with the earth put back on top afterwards, helping to blend the high-speed railway into the landscape and cut noise and disturbance for people living nearby.
Learn more: gloo.to/FDo0
Will Jones retweeted
Millionaires in Oxfordshire won’t see a train passing. Which means northern England doesn’t have high speed rail.
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The last of over 5,000 reinforced concrete segments has been lifted into position for the Chipping Warden 'green tunnel' - marking a major milestone for one of the longest 'cut and cover' tunnels on the project 👇🎥.
Set to stretch for one-and-a-half miles, the tunnel is being built inside a cutting, with the earth put back on top afterwards, helping to blend the high-speed railway into the landscape and cut noise and disturbance for people living nearby.
Learn more: gloo.to/FDo0
Will Jones retweeted
Betrayal? I remember the 10 Pledges Keir Starmer made as the foundation of his Labour leadership campaign.
Will Jones retweeted
A record fine for sewage spills and shareholder payouts, nearly £20bn of debt, all added under private ownership.
Now, Thames Water is months from collapse.
This is more than a failure of management. It's a failure of ownership. There must be a better way.
Thames Water moves step closer to nationalisation after government objects to rescue deal bbc.in/4vLAlgH
Will Jones retweeted
NEW: Our latest analysis shows the affordability crisis in private renting is now a national phenomenon.
With rents rising by between 6 and 9% each year across Britain since the pandemic.
ALT Text: Pre-pandemic rent rises were highest in the south and east of england. With a heat map showing private rent growth was highest in these regions between Jan 2015-Dec 2019.
ALT Text: But since the pandemic rapidly rising rents have become a national phenomenon. With heat map showing the highest rent rises in the North West and Wales and rent growth between 6.13% and 8.82% across the country.
Will Jones retweeted
There were 1.2 million applications to 17,000 graduate roles in 2024.
🚨 NEW: A Government review has found employers must adapt to the "bedroom generation" of unemployed 16-24 year olds by offering more flexibility
It says they're "not snowflakes or faking it" and their anxiety and depression is linked to growing up on social media
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RT @AndyBurnhamGM: Politics isn’t working for places like ours.
I will change that.
#AndyBurnham #ForUs
Will Jones retweeted
Three reasons why the "Unite the Kingdom" rally this Saturday is worse than you think...
@ElonMusk a little something for you at the end.
Will Jones retweeted
Public finances are going to look even worse when my generation with plan 2 student loans start reducing hours or refusing promotions. Student loans are a piece of the background regressive tax system. The time lost is simply not worth the paltry increase in take home pay.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson tells @TrevorPTweets it's 'really hard' to look at how to lower Plan 2 student loan repayments, given the 'shape of the public finances.
#TrevorPhillips
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Will Jones retweeted
It is completely absurd - and incredibly damaging - that the NEC would not give members in Gorton and Denton the opportunity to select Andy Burnham as their candidate.
A decision which encapsulates everything wrong about the culture of our Party at the moment.
Will Jones retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: The Employment Rights Bill has now passed Parliament and will soon become law
- End to zero-hour contracts - workers will gain guaranteed hours, reasonable notice of shifts, and pay for last-minute shift cancellations
- Stronger Statutory Sick Pay with no Lower Earnings Limit or 3 day waiting period
- Day-one right to paternity leave and unpaid parental leave
- Right to claim unfair dismissal after six months
- Ban on "fire and rehire" and "fire and replace" practices
- New right to unpaid bereavement leave, including pregnancy loss
- New protections against unfair dismissal for pregnant women and new mothers
- Stronger redundancy rules, forcing employers to consult workers when 20 or more jobs are at risk at one workplace or when large-scale redundancies happen across a company
- Creation of a "Fair Work Agency" to enforce workers’ rights
Will Jones retweeted
💫 YOUR RENEW LABOUR STUDENTS TEAM 💫
Students are too often sidelined. Colleges and universities are in crisis. It’s on our party to fix it, and it's on Labour Students to provide the ideas to do so.
By actively involving every student member, Renew LS will do just that 📢
ALT A yellow and red graphic with Renew Labour Students candidates. Amy Tamblyn for Chair, L3106781 Vincent Conquest for Secretary, L1805990 Eleanor Woolstencroft for Vice-Chair, L1921948 Alexy King for BAME Officer, L3124242 Jamie Trodden for LGBT+ Officer, L1967392 Aaron Wilkins-Odudu for Disability Officer, L1926398 Becca Rumsey for Women’s Officer, L1907504 Georgia Meadows for Trans Officer, L3092211