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✍️ Nine months in power: how does Labour’s legislative plan look?

Since the election the government has been busy making new laws, but most people have not noticed. So, here’s a roundup of progress | Stephen McNair

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A big moment in tackling the UK’s skills crisis.

@MakeUK_ has published Skills for Success—a blueprint to fix apprenticeships and secure our economic future.

Read the full report: www.makeuk.org/make-uk-indu...
#UKmfg #IndustrialStrategySkills

The Telegraph’s been reproducing versions of this same story for years. Wokeness and a ‘recipe for a crisis’ in membership. But National Trust member retention is higher than comparator organisations despite the cost of living crisis, and visitor numbers have been increasing.

National Trust membership for a family costs £14.05 a month. A Telegraph subscription costs £104 a month. And don’t get me started on the quality of the product.

In London? Love fruit trees? This is happening in just under an hour 🍏 All welcome....

www.theorchardproject.org.uk/events/scion...

#ScionSwap #GrowYourOwnFruit

Excellent. Well worth reading this article. Note that there's a big difference when the solar farm is managed with nature in mind. Presumably they all could be.

54 countries are currently in debt crisis and we're campaigning to do something about it for #Jubilee2025.

Thanks to @bambosmp.bsky.social for discussing this important issue in Parliament and writing more about it here. ⤵️

parliamentnews.co.uk/25-years-aft...

Our in conversation with John Healey, Defence Secretary, is underway.

Watch live and submit your questions
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/john-h...

Did you hear about these 20 government actions? No? That’s the problem. The media aren’t telling you what’s happening.

@stephenmcnair.bsky.social reports

We're hiring! 🍏https://www.theorchardproject.org.uk/about-us/jobs/communications-and-fundraising-officer/

#CommunityOrchards #PRJobs

Billionaire former New York mayor will fund the UN climate agency after Trump pulls America out
www.france24.com/en/americas/...

A big read from me:

How England’s growing army of mayors are being deployed in the drive for growth (featuring a fair few unanswered questions)

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A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.

And also, to her credit, her rail nationalisation legislation came into law yesterday. www.parliament.uk/business/new...

She’s achieved more in five months than many MPs in a lifetime!

Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has expressed concern for the future of The Observer as “one of the very few rational progressive Sunday newspapers in the UK”.

It comes as a group of former Guardian staff including Gary Younge sign a letter protesting the sale:
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists.
If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.