SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA

Mhari Aurora asks a pretty fair question, is booed by the crowd and told off by Dear Leader. Then Noa Hoffman, lobs a dogwhistle soft ball about making "our high streets beautiful again", not "covered in illegal migrant vape shops," to great applause.

Genuinely ugly moment. ~AA

Farage accuses the BBC of bias on Europe, immigration, the environment, Gaza, and Trump - to a hall of toadies roaring their approval.

And in the blink of an eye, turns to his actual employer "a much perkier GB News," then remembers "although I have to declare an interest." ~AA

Paul Nowak: "We've got 6,000 people working on electric vehicles in Nissan. We need to be supporting, those British manufacturing and engineering employers to make that transition."

🌍 ⚒️ "There is no contradiction at all between getting to net zero and good quality jobs and economic success."

Paul Nowak: "GDP may have been going up, but most people were in the midst of a cost of living crisis."

📉 "Wages were stagnant, living standards were falling. Hundreds of thousands of people every week were going to food banks"

Paul Novak: "I find it very difficult Graham, to sit there, you with a straight face, and talk about neglect of public services"

⚠️ "When you consider the track record of the government you were a member of for 14 years."

@petewishart.bsky.social: "When parties like Reform UK rail against the ECHR - that tells us everything we need to know about why it is so desperately required."

"The ECHR enshrines our freedom of speech, our right to assemble, and to worship. It is everything that the populists despise."

First the likes of Farage said we needed to leave the EU. Now they’re coming for the ECHR.

Paul Kohler MP: "It feels like Brexit déjà vu with the same hollow promises of taking back control, the same disregard for facts, the same blindness to consequence."

@cateccles.bsky.social makes an excellent case for why the ECHR is fundamental to our rights. "Stand up and fight for the convention and our place. Let's be bold."

George Osborne on the political benefits of a closer relationship with the EU...

"If I were running this government, they'd look to me like pretty easy wins, straightforward things to deliver."

"Using my old hat as person who ran two general elections, you trap the opposition."

Nigel Farage's hypocrisy exposed during PMQs. 🚨

Farage has earned more than £1.1 million through second jobs since the General Election, but he calls for cuts to the minimum wage for young people.

Unbelievable.

The Reform UK-led council in Kent shows exactly what a Reform UK government would look like.

David Lammy: "Reform said that Kent County Council would be the best advert for what a Reform government would look like.

"They're delivering on the chaos that they promised."

A historical moment in Parliament as Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy becomes the first Black person to ever answer a Prime Minister's question. 👏

⬇️ Vince Cable: "The OBR suggests that the cost to our GDP is even worse than some of the more pessimistic predictions."

"We're talking about GDP being 5% less than it otherwise would have been. And that probably excludes the damage to business confidence"

🇬🇧 🇪🇺 George Osborne: "The truth is there are very few levers on the desk"

"Building a railway is going to take 15 years. Negotiating a better trade deal or services agreement with the EU is something in, within your gift and the gift of the European Union negotiator."

Mamdani's message to Trump 👏

"If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Trump how to defeat him, it's the city that gave rise to him."

'New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."