🧑‍🎄IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT (Lord emoji. not Father Christmas) ... 🧑‍🎄 Screenshot points below, plus ... consultation culture not dead ... Labour dumps docs (incl aid cuts) before recess to avoid scrutiny ... and (💌 Scoop) Darren Jones leaves papal letters in Cabinet room

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⚽ IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... ⚽ EXCL: PM tells campaigners he will fight injustice "while I have breath in my body" post-No.10, before Hillsborough bill clears Commons ⏱️ SCOOP from @estwebber.bsky.social and @danbloom1.bsky.social on possible new attendance rules for Lords

🚔 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🛃 Home affairs news chaos: Widdecombe/Ahmed/IRGC/Hillsborough etc 🗞️ SCOOP: The government news grid has gone digital (and AI)

🗳️ IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🗳️ Nigel Farage tries to wrest the narrative back with Clacton election gambit 🗳️ But other parties could boycott 🗳️ And standards probes continue regardless

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⚽ IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... ⚽ SW1 in two minds about Trump meddling in the World Cup ⚽ Should Starmer be outraged ... or do the same? 📑 PLUS: Miatta Fanbulleh hands Burnham his finished plan for govt. Top scoop from @charliecooper8.bsky.social

Can the Burnham approach to media continue in government? 🤳

📰 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT 👾As Burnham starts his Reddit Q&A ... can he continue his distant approach to MSM in government? 🌭 Thoughts from Boris DoC @MrLeeCain, Starmer DoC @James___Lyons, ex-govt comms chief Alex Aiken ... and more! 🖇️ Link in next post

🏅 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🥇 Keir Starmer insists he's been a good prime minister. We ask the experts 🥈 Are his own core targets on track? 🥉 Is the economy stronger and stable-r?

✍️ IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🗣️ PMQs spills into stand-up row in Commons 👩‍⚖️ SCOOP with @estwebber.bsky.social on the new Commons clerk 📊 Tories get ANOTHER stats watchdog telling off

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🤳 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🍮 Burnham in SW1 and expected to be PM in weeks after Keir quits 😪 What Starmer told aides inside No10 📞 How Wes folded in weekend calls, via @danbloom1.bsky.social

🤔 TORY CHAOS VETERANS ADVISE LABOUR ... Ex-chief whip: "Labour MPs need to understand it can’t happen over and over again ... They have to accept the next leader is the person who takes them into the next election, even if they end up not being very good." Plus ... 👇

Media scrum collects around Lou Haigh after the Burnham speech

The Burnham post-election event at Ashton FC football ground

🏚️ 3. The derelict buildings STILL snarled up in planning red tape

🗑️ 2. The illegal waste dump that STILL hasn't been cleared

🤦 Three dispatches from Makerfield in London Playbook PM this week — illustrating three problems widespread in Britain that make its governance look inept ... 🌊 1. The flooding risks that STILL haven't been solved

🗳️ IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🗳️ All the chaos on the Makerfield streets as the election races towards 10pm 🗳️ PLUS: How a historic abandoned pub in the seat illustrates British planning woes

Our John Johnston reports on the latest Meta ad spends in Makerfield ... and notes that Reform appears to have given up online. Full details: www.politico.eu/newsletter/p...

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📩 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🗑️ The waste mountain in Makerfield. Who can clear it? 🧨 Camp Burnham dismisses Starmer job offer 🏞️ PM pleased with (his final?) G7 via @estwebber.bsky.social

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🚣‍♀️ IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM FROM MAKERFIELD TONIGHT ... 🌊 Flood victims back Burnham despite still waiting for solutions 🏞️ Dispatch from G7 Alps summit from @estwebber.bsky.social ⛵ MoD probes reported Russian shots at UK yacht

🔥💰🔥 How a £28 billion black hole appeared in the MoD budget in six months and no-one got fired

💸 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 💸 How did a WHOPPING £28 billion MoD shortfall appear in six months ... and who is to blame? 💸 SCOOP from @Masonboyowen on how a Canadian defense bank plan could get us out of this mess 🖇️ Link in next post

🚨 SCOOP from our great tech reporter Mizy Clifton: Social media curfews for kids are on the table ... and bans are coming on disappearing messages and livestreaming

Worth remembering in all the criticism of the PM/HMT that the MoD f*cked up it's budget to the tune of an enormous *£28bn* - an unfathomable amount. And no-one got blamed or fired

💣 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 💣 All the details on the bombshell John Healey resignation 💣 SCOOP from @estwebber.bsky.social: Cooper declines to back PM outright 💣 Tons of gear from Esther, @masonboyowen.bsky.social, @danbloom1.bsky.social, @samblewett.bsky.social & @noahkeate.bsky.social