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# ![@BBCPolitics Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::621533.png) @BBCPolitics BBC Politics

Tensions between Israel and Iran have escalated, with Israel launching airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites and Iran vowing to retaliate. The UK and US are involved, with the UK sending jets to the Middle East to protect personnel and bases, and the US having recently bombed Iranian nuclear sites. The situation is being closely watched, with concerns about the risk of further escalation and the impact on regional stability.

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### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::621533/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Kemi Badenoch quotes a rape gang survivor who says that the safeguarding minister needs to be removed PM Keir Starmer says Jess Phillips has "more experience than any other person in this House in dealing with violence against women and girls" #PMQs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1980959313079181771) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-22T11:27Z 1.1M followers, 54.9K engagements


"Is Kamala still 'brat' I think were going to have to ask that beautiful artist who said it over a year ago Former US vice president Kamala Harris discusses the personal side of her presidential campaign #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982412241245700519) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-26T11:41Z 1.1M followers, 83.5K engagements


"Government set to miss 1.5m target housebuilders warn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1983502533063541061) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-29T11:53Z 1.1M followers, 9296 engagements


"UK independent space agency scrapped to cut costs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1958114918294606061) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-08-20T10:32Z 1.1M followers, 2.5M engagements


"I know my job is to get bills down by 2030 Energy secretary Ed Miliband defends the governments approach on energy bills #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1979847645926494506) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-19T09:50Z 1.1M followers, 183.2K engagements


"Whatever youre going to raise from a wealth tax its ultimately about reducing inequality Green party leader Zack Polanski says we dont need to tax the wealthy to fund public investment as we can do that anyway #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1979849247739482439) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-19T09:56Z 1.1M followers, 313.7K engagements


"Kemi Badenoch says it's "shocking" the grooming inquiry still doesn't have a chair adding it should be a judge Keir Starmer says judge-led inquiries are often held back until the end of criminal proceedings and it was decided against for speed #PMQs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1980959383329632668) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-22T11:28Z 1.1M followers, 41.5K engagements


"Kemi Badenoch asks the PM why "when he is in a position to do something about it it's always someone else's fault" "We have done more in the time we've been in office than they did in XX long years" Keir Starmer says #PMQs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1980960163914719409) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-22T11:31Z 1.1M followers, 52.8K engagements


"Worcestershire County Council asks residents to consider potential council tax hike of up to 10%"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1981297188991824171) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-23T09:50Z 1.1M followers, 562.8K engagements


"Plaid Cymru wins key Caerphilly by-election as Labour loses seat held since Welsh Parliament began Follow live:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1981531318384054488) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-24T01:20Z 1.1M followers, 50.2K engagements


"What she said was a disgrace it was racist Health Secretary Wes Streeting criticises Reform MP Sarah Pochins comments about the number of Black and Asian people in adverts and says he worries about the return of 1970s style racism #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982396491739132218) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-26T10:38Z 1.1M followers, 360.6K engagements


""I do reflect on whether I should have had a conversation with him urging him not to run" Former US VP Kamala Harris says she had concerns about Joe Bidens ability to campaign for re-election but not about his capacity to be president #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982401649634070637) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-26T10:59Z 1.1M followers, 54K engagements


"On Monday's #PoliticsLive Tracy Brabin MP Mayor of West Yorkshire Dame Karen Bradley MP Conservative Tom Slater Spiked 12:15pm BBC Two"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982782049808228579) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-27T12:10Z 1.1M followers, 40.4K engagements


""I am unhappy" with what Sarah Pochin has done she "fully knows how I feel" Nigel Farage says The Reform UK leader says his MP's comments in which she complained about adverts being "full" of black and Asian people were "wrong" and "ugly""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982818895133085860) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-27T14:37Z 1.1M followers, 351K engagements


"Hundreds of asylum seekers could be housed in two military sites as government aims to end use of hotels"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1983092145624944912) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-28T08:43Z 1.1M followers, 11.3K engagements


"Government facing bigger-than-expected hole in public finances as it prepares for next month's Budget"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1983096180167897551) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-28T08:59Z 1.1M followers, 27.8K engagements


"On Tuesday's #PoliticsLive Danny Beales MP Labour Harriet Cross MP Conservative Alys Denby City AM 12:15pm BBC Two"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1983144331310510152) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-28T12:10Z 1.1M followers, 11.9K engagements


"Chancellor Rachel Reeves vows to "defy" gloomy economic forecasts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1983452513010438209) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-29T08:35Z 1.1M followers, 32.8K engagements


"Kemi Badenoch says "abolishing Stamp Duty is how we get young people on the housing ladder" and asks why the PM won't "scrap this terrible tax" Keir Starmer replies saying he won't take "lectures or advice from them on the economy" #PMQs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1983508844350193830) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-29T12:18Z 1.1M followers, 42K engagements


"Kemi Badenoch says inflation has doubled under the PM's government and asks if he will "work with us to cut welfare spending and get Britain working again" Keir Starmer says the Tories "crashed the economy" and reduced the UK to a laughing stock" #PMQs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1983509184118129102) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-29T12:20Z 1.1M followers, 46.1K engagements


"Isnt the truth that with this prime minister its always someone elses fault Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch asks PM Keir Starmer says the Tories were kicked out of office because they broke the economy and were fixing their mess #PMQs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1983510343578976362) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-29T12:24Z 1.1M followers, 43.8K engagements


"Lib Dem leader Ed Davey asks the PM to back an investigation into "dangerous Russian interference" in European politics. with reference to Reform's former leader in Wales Nathan Gill Keir Starmer accuses Reform UK of being "Putin friendly" #PMQs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1983514579427549411) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-29T12:41Z 1.1M followers, 67.9K engagements


"Nigel Farage says he was "stunned" to discover ex-Wales Reform leader Nathan Gill took bribes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1976660412427911168) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-10T14:45Z 1.1M followers, 2.1M engagements


""It was an entirely independent decision by the CPS to discontinue the case" Home Office minister Dan Jarvis responds to an urgent question in the Commons on collapse of the China spy case"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1980288884622663703) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-20T15:03Z 1.1M followers, 33.8K engagements


"Five grooming gang survivors back Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips to stay in charge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1981386440006127699) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-23T15:45Z 1.1M followers, 976.8K engagements


"PM Keir Starmer greets Ukraine's President Zelensky ahead of talks with European leaders in Downing Street Follow live:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1981687918566506569) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-24T11:43Z 1.1M followers, 52.1K engagements


"Will Lucy Powell's win turn things around for Labour"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982090187518730484) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-25T14:21Z 1.1M followers, 75.2K engagements


"Its not language that I would have used Shadow home secretary Chris Philp refuses to say Reform MP Sarah Pochins comments saying it drives her "mad seeing adverts full of Black and Asian people" were racist #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982397763628208184) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-26T10:43Z 1.1M followers, 50.4K engagements


"For probably a decade Democrats have been losing certain sectors of society and there is work we need to get done Former US Vice President Kamala Harris reflects on why she lost the 2024 US presidential election #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982408344976375927) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-26T11:25Z 1.1M followers, 52.3K engagements


"Reform MP's comments about adverts 'racist' says Streeting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982444354523246774) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-26T13:49Z 1.1M followers, 43K engagements


"Home Office squandered billions on asylum hotels MPs say"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982715065347244517) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-27T07:44Z 1.1M followers, 40.6K engagements


"Prisons begin extra checks after migrant released in error"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982730112240845131) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-27T08:44Z 1.1M followers, 16.8K engagements


"Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has questions to answer over MP Sarah Pochin's "shocking racism" PM Keir Starmer says"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982811094482665918) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-27T14:06Z 1.1M followers, 68.3K engagements


"UK signs 8bn Typhoon fighter jet deal with Turkey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982925591260053638) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-27T21:41Z 1.1M followers, 16.5K engagements


"Leader of Reform UK-run Kent County Council describes suspensions and expulsions of councillors from her party as "sorry state of affairs""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1983458559640629561) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-29T08:59Z 1.1M followers, 9651 engagements


"Keir Starmer faces Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and other MPs in Prime Minister's Questions Follow #PMQs live from midday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1983503373723955550) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-29T11:57Z 1.1M followers, 8945 engagements


"Leader of the opposition Kemi Badenoch asks if Keir Starmer stands by Labour's promises not to increase tax The PM says with the approaching Budget the government will "build a stronger economy" and cut "NHS waiting lists" #PMQs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1983507226963620104) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-29T12:12Z 1.1M followers, 34.9K engagements


"Kemi Badenoch asks the PM whats changed in the last four months when it comes to tax cuts Keir Starmer says no PM will set out plans but adds that the Tories broke the economy well fix it #PMQs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1983508305663197350) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-29T12:16Z 1.1M followers, 42.3K engagements


"PM Keir Starmer declines to rule out breaking manifesto tax pledges"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1983552982353322072) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-29T15:14Z 1.1M followers, 86.9K engagements


"Reform proposes to cut Pip payments to people with anxiety"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1983559218125832409) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-29T15:39Z 1.1M followers, 38.5K engagements


"Government to guarantee 1.5bn JLR loan after cyber shutdown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1972577714923081807) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-09-29T08:22Z 1.1M followers, 10.2K engagements


"Prostate cancer screening urgently needed says Rishi Sunak"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1978005065945239595) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-14T07:48Z 1.1M followers, 22.7K engagements


"How much more is there that we have to now go back and question Journalist Emily Maitlis says she felt sick when she read emails showing Prince Andrew had maintained contact with Jeffrey Epstein for longer than he previously said #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1979848404306985061) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-19T09:53Z 1.1M followers, 56.5K engagements


""I take full responsibility for all the decisions that we took" Boris Johnson tells the Covid inquiry "Insofar as we got things wrong then of course I apologise for that" the former PM adds Follow live:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1980568678849487216) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-21T09:35Z 1.1M followers, 73.8K engagements


"Kemi Badenoch says a rape gang survivor asked what's the point in speaking up if we're going to be called liars The grooming scandal was one of the worst of our time PM Keir Starmer says adding the inquiry will never be watered down #PMQs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1980956417600225512) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-22T11:16Z 1.1M followers, 53.1K engagements


"Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says Home Office "not yet fit for purpose""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1981277678373077203) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-23T08:33Z 1.1M followers, 10.8K engagements


"Chancellor Rachel Reeves refuses to rule out income tax rises in Budget"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1981777468324216860) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-24T17:39Z 1.1M followers, 46.7K engagements


"Lucy Powell elected Labour's deputy leader"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982047043439783986) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-25T11:30Z 1.1M followers, 13.3K engagements


"Kamala Harris and Wes Streeting face questions on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982374101533471153) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-26T09:09Z 1.1M followers, 11.7K engagements


"Credit should be given where credit is due Former US Vice President Kamala Harris says the Trump administration had done some good work on the Gaza ceasefire deal but that there is a lot more to do #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982405880759886228) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-26T11:16Z 1.1M followers, 30.1K engagements


"Just because you have a freedom doesnt mean you have to use it at every moment of every day Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood defends the new powers to restrict protests the government wants to give police based on cumulative disruption #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1974794303546298682) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-05T11:10Z 1.1M followers, 2.8M engagements


""The last few weeks have been incredibly tough on my family with my personal life so much in the public eye. it is the price we pay for the privilege of service" Angela Rayner gives personal statement after her resignation from government last month"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1980993073585774991) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-22T13:42Z 1.1M followers, 90.1K engagements


""There are many who are bending the knee at the foot of a tyrant Former US VP Kamala Harris says she has been proven right about how Donald Trump would "weaponise" his office and criticised some business leaders for "capitulating" #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982404275704590356) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-26T11:09Z 1.1M followers, 39.1K engagements


"I am not done Former US vice president Kamala Harris tells #BBCLauraK that the first female president could still possibly be her but said she had not decided whether to run again for president in 2028 #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1982407455314239533) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-26T11:22Z 1.1M followers, 13.7K engagements


"Attorney general blames outdated law for collapse of China spy case"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1983564651246796813) [@BBCPolitics](/creator/x/BBCPolitics) 2025-10-29T16:00Z 1.1M followers, 8493 engagements