Theo Usherwood

RT @CatrionaStewart: I spent the midnight hour on Saturday with @theousherwood on @TimesRadio ... and the midnight hour with @theousherwood…

£30bn or six Spring statements where you cut welfare spending £5bn-a-time.

Tony Diver @Tony_Diver

🚨NEW: Chagos deal will cost £30bn RENT: - £165m a year for the first 3 years - £120m a year for years 4-13 - Then £120m+inflation for years 14-99 PLUS: - £45m a year for 25 years for development - £40m one-off for Chagossian fund Assuming 2% inflation, total cost is £30.3bn

Net migration falls by almost 50%, down from 860k in 2023 to 431k at the end of last year. Numbers from the ONS point to a large drop in the number of dependents arriving in the UK - in 2024 there were 105k fewer dependents to those on study visas and 81k fewer work dependents,

Keir Starmer confirms to the Commons the Government "will look at" at ensuring more pensioners are eligible for the winter fuel allowance as part of next month's spending review.

RT @ElectionMapsUK: Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 30% (+2) LAB: 22% (-3) CON: 21% (+1) LDM: 14% (=) GRN: 8% (=) SNP: 2% (=) Via @Mor…

👀 Quite the admission from Kim Leadbeater when she says “certain policy decisions were taken by me as sponsor” of the assisted dying bill in an email to colleagues (via @JAHeale). Probably the most consequential piece of domestic legislation this parliament, delegated to a https://t.co/qvMr3s2MFX

On today's suggestion from Nick Clegg the Liberal Democrats could prop up a Labour-led coalition from 2029, Sir Ed Davey doesn't exactly dismiss the idea. He tells @TimesRadio: "Of course I'm interested in power. It would be crazy not to be, because that's the only way you can

What's been overlooked so far - and this graphic kinda illustrates - is that yesterday's deal provides a blueprint for other industries and sectors within the British economy to press the government to draw closer trading agreements with the EU. So if the food producers and

The Labour Party @UKLabour

Speaks for itself. https://t.co/kPVVzHfxMp

RT @FraserNelson: Odd for No10 to state falsehood from its official account. Whether Brits can use e-Gates will be up to member states. Th…

RT @TimesRadio: “I’m not a racist simply because I love my own people.” Inside the Homeland Party conference: a registered political group…

RT @nmdacosta: Amendment defeated 279 v 243. Looks like there will be no hospice, nor care home, where you can be certain ending the life o…

RT @jessicaelgot: NEW - Peter Lamb, the Labour MP for Crawley, says has changed his vote to vote against the bill when it returns at third…

Polling suggests the public's view chimes with MPs who voted in favour of assisted dying at second reading switching sides before next month's crucial vote at third reading: they still support the principle of assisted dying, this is just the wrong way to go about it.

Luke Tryl @LukeTryl

Our latest polling for @TimesRadio on Assisted Dying ahead of this week's debate finds a slight drop off of support for the principle of legalising assisted dying but still a clear majority in favour. However there are a number of safeguards the public want not in the Bill. https://t.co/h00OXD9IgP

Notable switcher ahead of the assisted dying bill returning to the Commons tomorrow. My story on @TimesRadio and part of the coverage in @thetimes today.

Times Radio @TimesRadio

“I’m worried about inadvertently creating a sort of suicide culture.” Former Tory minister @MPGeorgeFreeman tells @theousherwood why he is switching sides on the assisted dying bill. https://t.co/pGjb5MBKfF

RT @jgriffintimes: We’re stunned at ⁦⁦@thetimes⁩ at the death of our friend and former colleague, Andrew Norfolk. The finest journalist I e…