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Douglas Alexander is losing staff at an even quicker rate than he lost voters in Scotland.

With Douglas Alexander as a boss, it's no wonder staff are running for the exit.

Getting all those young people — and the generations to come — back on the road to success is my priority.

I am being investigated for standing against antisemitism. You could not make it up.

Conflict and uncertainty increases inflation, threatens growth and pushes up costs for businesses and governments alike.

But it also threatens our economic security: impacting the family finances of millions of British people.

The conflict affects our national security, our UK bases, personnel and allies in the Middle East.

Mass deportations must become a political inevitability.

I truly believe there could be sufficient common ground for our two movements to cooperate collectively, destroy the looming leftwing alliance that will finish off what hope remains for this country.

With grubby pacts, police probes, and support from a convicted fraudster – Reform are up to their neck in sleaze and they clearly think the rules don’t apply to them.

Farage has desperately tried to distract from his catalogue of scandals. But the embattled Reform leader has run out of road and must come clean with the public.

Nigel Farage has blown a gaping hole in his excuse for why his secret £5m ‘gift’ from a crypto billionaire did not need to be declared.

The rules on declaring interests in debates are there for good reason but the bigger picture here is that (Nigel) Farage and Reform UK are still under investigation for receiving an undeclared £5m donation from a bitcoin billionaire.

One million. That’s how many young people from the education system Michael Gove presided over who are now left outside education, not in employment and not in training. That’s not a coincidence – it’s a consequence. It’s his legacy.

The one-size-fits-all approach simply doesn’t suit all children. For some it’s become a straitjacket. A straitjacket that has left too many being branded a failure – again and again – instead of being able to realise their potential.

There’s no doubt we are seeing the impact of climate change, not just here in the UK, but also we’ve seen that across Europe, we’ve seen that across the world as well.

The offer remains open to Nigel and Reform. Although outright lying about our private conversations does not help that.

I do not want to make private conversations public, but Farage has just done so at a national press conference. He just stated he said to me yesterday ‘Shall we have a call?’.