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"It's amazing what people get so angry about and on that side it's lifting children out of poverty," says Rachel Reeves as Tory MPs try to shout down her announcement that she is scrapping the two child benefit cap which has pushed hundreds of thousands of children into poverty
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"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves "But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
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Rachel Reeves, whose budget was almost entirely and deliberately briefed in advance of her statement, says it is "deeply disappointing" that the OBR has accidentally done the same
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Two graphs that explain the Government's problems more than anything else. Another half decade of flatlined living standards
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The leaked OBR assessment states that Rachel Reeves decision to freeze income tax thresholds will raise ÂŁ8.3 billion in 2029-30. So income tax will be going up, contrary to the election pledge, but stealthily, rather than openly
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Abolish the OBR
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How the Daily Mail has responded to a Budget that will slightly raise wages for young people, vs how they responded to a Budget that almost crashed the entire economy
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@carolecadwalla
Carole Cadwalladr
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise https://t.co/AfwPdlw1S4
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bylinetimes.com
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
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"He told the BBC he had been contacted by people "who were nine years old and Nigel Farage, when he was 18 years old, marched frequently into the playground where they were playing and they were told to 'go back to Africa." https://t.co/Qucc8XRef8
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thetimes.com
Peter Ettedgui says he was targeted at Dulwich College. The Reform UK leader denies he racially abused anybody
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"Farage repeatedly... said Hitler was right and 'gas 'em' and that was frequently followed by a 'sssss'... the sound of escaping gas "Farage's words "hit hard" because his grandparents escaped Nazi Germany and much of his family perished in the Holocaust" https://t.co/y3A4KQZCsX
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Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.
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🔴BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge ‘Dark Money’ Climate-Denial Lobbyist EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford ‘fell below usual standards’ https://t.co/XtakAemIyT
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EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'
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Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
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Lewis Goodall
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Wrote about this a couple of weeks ago. And it’s a deficit of self-awareness which goes far beyond some of those on the BBC board.
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Tom Baldwin
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FWIW, I do know Robbie Gibb, having met him almost 30 years ago when he was working for the Tories & always quite liked him. But the claim by this self-identifying “Thatcherite” to be a completely impartial BBC arbiter is as ludicrous as me claiming I’m not partial towards Labour
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I mean why stop here? Why not just ban anyone who wasn't born here from having any recognisable family or community connections whatsoever?
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Was trying to work out in which way Shabana Mahmood, an otherwise pretty unremarkable politician, could possibly be described as a "luminous golden star" who "dazzles like a blue-white supernova" and then I realised, its simply a willingness to be a bit more cruel to immigrants
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Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
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When I asked Nigel Farage's spokesman last week he flatly denied that his boss had ever racially abused anyone Now Farage is only saying he never did so intentionally. So the racial slurs just accidentally slipped out of his mouth at multiple times to multiple different people?
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Asked again and again whether he ever racially abused his fellow pupils, as 20 people at his old school have now said he did, Nigel Farage will only say that he never did so in a "hurtful way" or "with intent" Does he think there's a non-hurtful way to racially abused someone?
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BBC Chair and Robbie Gibb asked to explain why they drew up a plan, as revealed by Byline Times, to win back the "trust" of Reform voters, but haven't made similar plans for voters of any other party. Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC
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The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
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Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
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