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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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[politics](/topic/politics) #510, [bbc](/topic/bbc) 3.53%, [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump) 3.53%, [prime minister](/topic/prime-minister) #1378, [surge](/topic/surge) 1.18%, [target](/topic/target) 1.18%, [the british](/topic/the-british) 1.18%, [economy](/topic/economy) 1.18%, [mps](/topic/mps) 1.18%, [$6753t](/topic/$6753t) XXXX%

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

""We're starting to lose sight of what we are trying to do in our courts. we are looking for justice" Barrister Joanna Hardy-Susskind discusses reform of the justice system in England and Wales on #PoliticsLive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1995885031789863006)  2025-12-02T15:57Z 1.1M followers, 89.9K engagements


"We need to have a referendum on the monarchy Your Party MP Zarah Sultana explains her views on democratising workplaces and society and says she wants to see the monarchy abolished #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1997645998118539425)  2025-12-07T12:34Z 1.1M followers, 897.3K engagements


"Ed Davey asks if PM fears that if he keeps opposing a customs union in XX months time he will not be standing there Keir Starmer says we do have manifesto commitments on issues such as single markets customs union and freedom of movement #PMQs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998733523323146526)  2025-12-10T12:36Z 1.1M followers, 60K engagements


"Grooming gangs inquiry will be "completed within three years supported by a 65m budget" Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells the Commons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998392240075333942)  2025-12-09T14:00Z 1.1M followers, 278.2K engagements


"'Super flu' surge a challenge 'unlike any' since the pandemic Streeting says"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1999361828116128221)  2025-12-12T06:13Z 1.1M followers, 39.1K engagements


"Councils to get 3bn for thousands more school spaces for Send pupils"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1999398622173987324)  2025-12-12T08:39Z 1.1M followers, 8392 engagements


"Schoolboys to be target of UK's violence against women strategy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1999403123203256715)  2025-12-12T08:57Z 1.1M followers, 50.3K engagements


""I'm deeply gloomy" Reform UK's deputy leader Richard Tice reacts to the Budget adding Rachel Reeves has "essentially written off the British economy with this car crash" Follow live:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1993724469546783221)  2025-11-26T16:52Z 1.1M followers, 61K engagements


"She could have cut spending Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says Chancellor Rachel Reeves did not need to raise taxes in the Budget and that she should lose her job #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1995074356586676576)  2025-11-30T10:16Z 1.1M followers, 178.5K engagements


"Reeves denies she misled public over UK's finances prior to Budget"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1995143345274781769)  2025-11-30T14:50Z 1.1M followers, 14.5K engagements


""This is a very serious breach of highly sensitive information" Chief Secretary to the Treasury James Murray makes a statement to the Commons on the OBR leak Follow live:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1995524323692499115)  2025-12-01T16:04Z 1.1M followers, 107.1K engagements


"PM Keir Starmer says he is proud of Budget as he denies misleading public"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1995529202523603099)  2025-12-01T16:23Z 1.1M followers, 17.1K engagements


"Chancellor Rachel Reeves did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget OBR official tells MPs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1995847015100551556)  2025-12-02T13:26Z 1.1M followers, 778K engagements


"New mayoral elections to be delayed in two areas of England"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1996530429407506626)  2025-12-04T10:42Z 1.1M followers, 9755 engagements


"Chancellor Rachel Reeves will not face ethics probe over pre-Budget remarks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1996971269275726115)  2025-12-05T15:53Z 1.1M followers, 52.8K engagements


"Sharp rise needed to hit Labour's promise to build XXX million new homes Housing Secretary Steve Reed admits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1997950534217547866)  2025-12-08T08:45Z 1.1M followers, 15.6K engagements


"Angela Rayner will make return to cabinet PM Keir Starmer says"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1997952810596311213)  2025-12-08T08:54Z 1.1M followers, 213.4K engagements


"Angela Rayner urges MPs not to "blink or buckle" on Employment Rights Bill"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998343686862553414)  2025-12-09T10:47Z 1.1M followers, 22.4K engagements


"Much of 10.9bn Covid scheme fraud "beyond recovery" report says"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998412815166489084)  2025-12-09T15:21Z 1.1M followers, 10.4K engagements


""We wish Europe to be safe and to prosper we would like it to take the threats to itself more seriously" Sebastian Gorka deputy assistant to US President Donald Trump is asked if Russia is a threat on #PoliticsLive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998424670534525198)  2025-12-09T16:09Z 1.1M followers, 36.6K engagements


"Thirteen Labour MPs vote for talks on joining EU customs union"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998674339718222124)  2025-12-10T08:41Z 1.1M followers, 10.9K engagements


"No XX denies failing to defend Sadiq Khan after he was branded a "disgusting mayor" by US President Donald Trump"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998676829515796507)  2025-12-10T08:51Z 1.1M followers, 12.3K engagements


"Government set to spend 500m on youth services in England"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998678859927986631)  2025-12-10T08:59Z 1.1M followers, 15.7K engagements


"On Wednesday's #PoliticsLive Baroness Smith MP Skills Minister Julia Lopez MP Shadow Science Secretary Lord Blunkett Labour Peer Adrian Ramsay MP Green Party Anita Boateng Former Conservative adviser 11:15pm BBC Two"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998710169207808127)  2025-12-10T11:03Z 1.1M followers, 8323 engagements


"I wanted to have more headroom against the fiscal rules Chancellor Rachel Reeves says she did not mislead people in the run-up to the Budget and that the decisions she took were to build economic resilience #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1995071930550911011)  2025-11-30T10:06Z 1.1M followers, 407.2K engagements


"Don't let US President Donald Trump interfere with UK democracy Lib Dem leader Ed Davey tells PM Keir Starmer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998774787506631060)  2025-12-10T15:20Z 1.1M followers, 10.5K engagements


""You can't just turn round XX years of failure in six months" Heath Secretary Wes Streeting says the UK is likely to see the "peak" of flu cases in the next week and Labour have "banged the drum" for both NHS investment and reform #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1875850092701216990)  2025-01-05T10:21Z 1.1M followers, 120K engagements


""We have a million women in this country out of work because they have caring commitments" Labour MP Stella Creasy tells #PoliticsLive If we invest in childcare and paid parental leave "we could get the welfare bill down" she adds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1995484939018551690)  2025-12-01T13:27Z 1.1M followers, 97.4K engagements


"This post corrects an earlier post which incorrectly quoted Rupert Lowe This correction supersedes a previous clarification. We apologise to Mr Lowe for the error"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1989021642857603414)  2025-11-13T17:24Z 1.1M followers, 956K engagements


"Why in my judgement Rachel Reeves was misleading on one specific point @ChrisMasonBBC writes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1995487573540475304)  2025-12-01T13:38Z 1.1M followers, 443.7K engagements


""New swift courts" where the judge alone decides verdicts in "triable either-way cases with a likely sentence of three years or less" will "deliver justice at least XX% faster than jury trials" Justice Secretary David Lammy tells the Commons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1995843121045729365)  2025-12-02T13:10Z 1.1M followers, 166.6K engagements


"Chinese mega embassy could bring security advantages says No 10"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1996109146316255724)  2025-12-03T06:48Z 1.1M followers, 150.3K engagements


"Joining #BBCLauraK Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden Conservative Helen Whately Your Party MP Zarah Sultana Looking for Growth director Lawrence Newport Reed Group CEO James Reed PoliticsJOE political editor Ava Evans Sunday 9am @BBCOne"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1997345176532992339)  2025-12-06T16:39Z 1.1M followers, 94.2K engagements


"Major talks on changes to ECHR migration rules set to start"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998656819527324129)  2025-12-10T07:31Z 1.1M followers, 205K engagements


"Tory leader Kemi Badenoch asks Keir Starmer why his MPs describe him as a caretaker prime minister Starmer says his MPs are proud of a Budget which protects public services and the NHS and "we are concentrating on what matters most to the country #PMQs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998728183969964517)  2025-12-10T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 33K engagements


"Kemi Badenoch challenges the PM over Energy Secretary Ed Miliband's promise to cut energy bills by XXX Keir Starmer says Labour has taken XXX off energy bills for six million poor families Follow #PMQs live:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998729955564233032)  2025-12-10T12:22Z 1.1M followers, 82.7K engagements


"Kemi Badenoch asks the PM to reveal how many extra teachers there are since Bridget Phillipson became education secretary Keir Starmer says there are more teachers since the Tories left office adding they left our schools in a mess #PMQs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998730200792670531)  2025-12-10T12:23Z 1.1M followers, 78.2K engagements


"Last year the government "promised to recruit 13000 more police officers hows that going asks Kemi Badenoch Keir Starmer says the Tories left the criminal justice system "utterly broken #PMQs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998731874814820609)  2025-12-10T12:29Z 1.1M followers, 23.5K engagements


"Speaking on doctors' strikes Tory leader Kemi Badenoch asks the PM "how many appointments have been lost to strike action" Keir Starmer says the Conservatives "left the NHS an absolute mess" #PMQs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998731998458716191)  2025-12-10T12:30Z 1.1M followers, 26.4K engagements


"Lib Dem leader Ed Davey asks Keir Starmer whether he will tell President Trump that attempts to interfere with our democracy are unacceptable Starmer says what he sees is a strong Europe united behind Ukraine Follow #PMQs live:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998732558821908548)  2025-12-10T12:32Z 1.1M followers, 40.1K engagements


"US President Donald Trump's attacks on London Mayor Sadiq Khan are wrong Downing Street says"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1999050550164254742)  2025-12-11T09:36Z 1.1M followers, 48.4K engagements


"Former Conservative MP Ben Bradley joins Reform UK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1999101149115257010)  2025-12-11T12:57Z 1.1M followers, 42.3K engagements


"On this weeks Any Questions @AlexForsythBBC is joined at Wigan & Leigh College by Sir Jake Berry Tobias Ellwood Josh Simons and Sonia Sodha. Listen 8pm Friday / 1.10pm Saturday on @BBCRadio4 or on demand on @BBCSounds. #BBCAQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1999735378354258312)  2025-12-13T06:57Z 1.1M followers, 33K 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)  2025-10-05T11:10Z 1.1M followers, 2.8M engagements


"I doubt they should be off work Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden responds to the rise in young people who are economically inactive due to mental health and says the response should not be benefits where you're written off" #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1997642658181792165)  2025-12-07T12:21Z 1.1M followers, 106.3K engagements


"Kemi Badenoch asks if it's time for the prime minister to admit "Labour isn't working" Keir Starmer responds by saying so many people are leaving the Conservative Party because "they know there's absolutely no reason to stay" #PMQs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1998732143338348931)  2025-12-10T12:30Z 1.1M followers, 35.1K engagements


"Palestine Action hunger strikers call for urgent meeting with ministers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1999071879928177100)  2025-12-11T11:00Z 1.1M followers, 26.7K engagements


"The criminal justice system is quite slow a lot more money is needed Shadow home secretary Chris Philp responds to the governments strategy for violence against women and defends the Conservatives record in government #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/2000167460721381541)  2025-12-14T11:34Z 1.1M followers, 4749 engagements


""Nobody is expecting there to be a toilet police New EHRC chair Mary-Ann Stephenson says enforcement has to be proportionate but that people and service providers should follow the rules when it comes to guidance on single sex spaces #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/2000168360714117402)  2025-12-14T11:37Z 1.1M followers, 6644 engagements


""In some corners people thought this was some kind of vanity project Actor Kate Winslet who is releasing her directorial debut movie says she thinks women moving into directing are treated differently from men #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/2000186269427495363)  2025-12-14T12:49Z 1.1M followers, 3325 engagements


"My thoughts are with the victims and the Australian people Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says she will be speaking to her counterpart in Australia about the attack on Bondi Beach later today #BBCLauraK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/2000165583736713491)  2025-12-14T11:26Z 1.1M followers, 29K engagements