Thornbury, one of Corbyn's assassins!

Break the law, fiddle your expenses and get a cabinet seat in a Labour government. Way to go.

Wasn't Jacqui Smith caught fiddling expenses??...... ahh so that's how you get into the House of Lords is it?

I'm glad Labour got the big win, so the British can see what they're capable of and if they're socialist party or Tories in red!!! ...... We all know nothing will change, and I can't understand how British people and same with Western societies all voting the two main political parties and claim that's democracy?!! ..... How can it be democracy voting only the two main political parties? ......

Smith coming back reminds me of everything that I hated about the last Labour government.

Peter Kyle let the cat out of the bag on Thornberry on the PM programme. When asked if he'd miss her, he said that the party needed people from all parts of the Labour "landscape", thus admitting that this was just another petty sectarian move by Starmer.

Really surprising - wasn’t Jacqui just ‘ disgraced’ but also considered to be an incompetent minister? Puzzling decision by Keir - ethically and politically.

She's horrible

I suspect that Hermer will last as long he gives Starmer the advice he wants to hear. If he tells him he's illegally supporting war crimes in Palestine, he'll be gone faster than you can say "Martin Forde".

Emily Thornberry went from someone I didn't really object to very much to someone I thoroughly loathed in in those two sentences in that interview. Didn't really find her objectionable before: absolutely disgusting genocide fangirl afterwards.

Timpsons was founded 1903... he's looking pretty good as the "founder"

She parroted starmer and then effectively got sacked for it. This guy 😂

Assange in prison for 5 years was criminal

She was given her own medicine.

Milburn's political career started in Newcastle where, after leaving Lancaster university, he helped run a small radical bookshop called "Days of Hope" which was known locally as "Haze of Dope", for some reason (cough).

Wasnt Jacqui Smith involved in the porn scandal where she was claiming expenses for dodgy films?

Labour mwy have won a stack of seats , however Smiths appt reveals how thin the takent pool is .

I like that ~ if you want a friend in politics get a dog ~ lol

The point here is regardless of there ability we now have three minsters that can’t be held to account by the House of Commons.

Stop the genocide 😢

as I have said, almost from day one, Starmer is Blair 2.0. the day Blair was head of labour, was they day I started voting Greens. have done so ever since.

Non-elected appointments ... say it with me

Starmer picking Jacqui Smith new.higher education minister isn't much improvement on some greedy Tory ministers.

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I think I heard one of them actually say ‘the grownups are back in charge’ in an interview today 😂😂

I remember when Galloway cut her down to size. Brilliant TV moment.

Thornberry vile

Cannot believe he's given her a job and one she can't even answer questions on in the commons because she's not allowed in because she's not elected. Silly decision. Shortsighted. Unbelievable. Spurious.

Terrorists come in all shapes , ages and sizes!

I disagreed with Timpson a couple of years ago when he said two thirds of inmates shouldn't be there. Over 40% were there for Rape or Violent acts, so who's the two thirds he was talking about ?

Labour (Blair) more than doubled the prison population last time they were in by introducing new laws that criminalised people unnecessarily. They also brought in private companies.

Wasn't Jaquie Smith implicated in the expenses scandal. Claiming the broom cupboard in her sisters house was her second home.

Another government Another failure in waiting.

Milburn set up the NHS Trusts, 214 of them. The Top 10 executives across the trusts costs the NHS £607,000,000 each year. Streeting is sponsored, like Milburn, by the private health industry. Value for money?

Offensive stickers can get you 2years.

A lot of the worst villains of the Blair era hanging about behind the scenes- most of whom should still be serving some pretty lengthy terms inside if they really were subject to the same laws as the rest of us! This is why I worry that Starmer’s lot won’t just be no better than the Tories- they may actually turn out to be worse.

Buttery biscuit bass got me 😂

Emily Thornberry has decided to change careers and is now working as a toolmaker in Newcastle!

So no to unelected members of government and any unelected bodies that cannot be voted out.

In both the corporate and political world the price of failure is success.

Clickbait image and title aside, I’m glad and hope it continues that Novara foregrounds things like the first two examples where there is incredibly good news under a Starmer gov. Yes I’m further left, yes there’s deep bitterness regarding the last 5 years, but now Labour is in power let’s aggressively push and celebrate where there is real transformative change.

Ridiculous. Should be in prison.

If Labour don’t deliver, then other parties, like Reform, will be waiting in the wings.

Of course. Starmer is a Blairite after all, his protestations to the contrary not withstanding.

I’m all in favour of rehabilitation of offenders, but was totally shocked when I heard of the employment of ex offenders, especially when they fit batteries in mobile phones, where you leave your iPhone for 2 hours and they have all your data, bank accounts etc….and also ask for your PIN number !!!!!!

Employing experts in fields, instead of ideologically opposed goons.... Such a new concept....

Selecting rotten fruits to ser under his new government , a total nono ...

The key issue over the coming years will be loss of trust when things happen that we didn’t vote for. Obviously that is common Tory practice too but as Labour were so evasive in what they were trying to do, the comparison could creep in if they woolblind the public, especially with unpopular policies. Let’s see

Timpson cuts keys. Prisons have lots of keys… 😉 Aren’t we short of seasonal workers and fruit pickers. Can’t prisoners do some fruit picking?

Hermer is being set up to fail

When will 33% popular support for Labour turn into 20%. They've certainly hit the ground running towards achieving that, especially with the Elensky curse

Dam expensive key cutting. I go to my local mum and pap store.

This timpson guy is so it.. Believe me, this guy should have been our pm

Mr Timpson seems like a decent bloke but I've always thought teaching released burglars how to cut keys was a bit unwise. Shoe repair and watch repair - no issues.

Timpson, how much is a watch battery again.... £26

More prisons is not the answer. Look at the USA ! Worst prison system in the world. In the UK Money needs putting Back into prevention, interventions and rehabilitation of people before the person gets to the end stage of prison. It's time the system was Updated as well as the Education system that also doesn't not work 😢

Are you sure this guy was a founder of Timpsons. Was it not his father.

Absolutely awful... The lot of them!

In the US, the infamous Kim Kardashian & her husband plagiarist/ "sampling" rapper ex-husband got into Prison Reform. The seemingly concern for unjustly incarcerated people was actually to get their grandmother out of prison. I wondered what kind of crime would a beloved cute gramma would be imprisoned?😮 Imagine if you had to visit your nana in the yard?😂

I remember the vile attacks on Edward Timpson (brother?) when he ran as a Tory candidate against Gwyneth Dunwoody's daughter. A couple of Labour public schoolboys dressed in tails and top hats and followed him around calling him a toff. Classy.

VICTOMS also would like to keep their homes and read their children a book at night.

OMG they are wanting to build more houses and release prisoners God help us 😢.

Did you really expect less corruption than the tories??

We have so many problems in the uk and starters main concern is Gaza

"Starmer" "Hermer" sounds like the Third Reich

Hermer is a very interesting appointment.

James Timpson sounds great, but what’s with the Harry Potter glasses? 😂

Starmer may last a term, but not a second term.

Making room for incarcerating wrong-think offenders?

Wheres the honesty in his government first we had Angela Rayner and now hes got Jacqui Smith back after she claimed £160,000 odd expenses that she wasnt entitled too.

Timpson is by far my favourite appointment of the cabinet.

i dont think this is really high praise for the labour party, but they have exceeded my expectations so far. i think i have just subconsciously assumed after my entire memory of british politics being under conservative rule that there was some weird thing in british politics stopping the government from getting anything done. no, the tories were actually just that incompetent.

Hermer and Timpson are the only appointees that interested me. The other appointments, especially the Blairite / Brown ones are ghastly. Glad Thornberry got binned, deserves it after her shameful behaviour these past few years.

Why is the border crossing into Egypt accessible via Gaza firmly shut to residents of Gaza.

honestly Baroness Morgan of Huyton would have made more sense to be Minister for Education in Starmer's cabinet after all she did run OFSTED.

How long before Mandelson is back?

Hermer and Timpson are both good appointments. I hope they are able to make a real difference.

We don’t send enough people to prison look at the system now you have a revolving sentencing policy because you have nowhere to put them your job is to put the public’s safety first

An old broom knows the corners.😅

Timpsons needs to stick to cleaning suits for free..... almost 2/3 shouldn't be in prison ? He has clearly never worked a landing.

Crime doesn't pay, ask j.smith it does

Nowt changes, sleaze, slime, look after chummies. Welcome to the latest POLITICIANS CLUB.

I shouldn’t be shocked but I am….. didn’t vote Labour this time and never will.

Promising start from Starmer with some of these appointments. Sounds like we’ll see real positive change in terms of Gaza and prisons policy.

Prisons make money… private corporations - serco make a lot of money …..

Ash is a pleasure to listen to. Really appreciate her clarity and keen mind.

Timpsons - teaching burglars how to copy keys

Prison in the Community eh? 🤪😂🤣

Thornberry has proper mugged herself off…

James Timpson is impressive shame he’s not an MP

stamer mixture of blair and stalin

i elect my mp on the understanding their loyalty is to the area they represent , sure they toe the party line ,everyone in any workplace is expected to, but they must also speakup for those that elected themin the first place , even and esp even that goes against party lines ,

Starmer is probably the worst labour prime minister since the last one.

From out of woodwork they crawl!!!!

Talk about scraping a barrel!

The problem with Prisons is there isn`t enough guards. Half of some prison areas are closed, because they can`t staff the arera`s.

Too many Lords based government appointments

Nn̈,k9Thanks for sharing. At 77 it just left my bucket list.

Starmer has reduced the amount of time served to 40%.

Tittle tattle Tories