Alexander Brown
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Assistant Political Editor at The Mirror. COYS enthusiast. Views own. You can get me at [email protected]
Joined February 2013
Who among us has not made plans then decided it would be nicer to just cancel. Solidarity with the introverts ✊
Zarah Sultana will not enter the conference today, her spokesperson says. "Zarah met members outside the conference and condemned the recent expulsions. "This witch hunt is indefensible. We must build a party that welcomes all socialists. She will not be entering the
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EXC: Denmark's hardline asylum policy has led to more racism and a surge in support for the far-right, Danish politicians say. They urged the UK to drop plans to copy it, warning it only encouraged even worse attitudes towards immigrants https://t.co/hsdwX3gDH3
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Helene Brydensholt of the The Alternative party has urged the UK Government to think again, explaining it’s been a disaster for integration and led to more racism
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Inside Labour's make or break Budget week - and what it means for Reeves and Starmer. Our read on a massive week - with @ashcowburn and @DaveBurke12
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After weeks of chaotic leaks and speculation, Labour MPs are buoyed by Rachel Reeves's Budget - which may offer the Chancellor and PM Keir Starmer a brief respite
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Exclusive: Four names for the new left-wing party being set up by Corbyn and Sultana will be voted on at its founding conference this weekend 🔴 Your Party (holding name) 🔴 Our Party 🔴 Popular Alliance 🔴 For the Many (Options including People’s Party & Left Party were
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Members of the new left-wing party will vote on options for its permanent name, which include its temporary name 'Your Party', at its inaugural conference in Liverpool
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EXCL: Plans to send asylum seekers to to two military barracks delayed - story by @AlexofBrown
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Ministers had hoped to move hundreds of people to Cameron Barracks in Inverness and Crowborough Training Camp in East Sussex while their claims were processed to get people out of hotels
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How dare people link Nigel Farage and the AfD
Here's my @JewishChron column on 'The Guardian, the BBC and the weaponisation of antisemitism against Nigel Farage' https://t.co/nyv2qtIW07 I suppose we should be grateful that the Guardian and the BBC have now decided that antisemitism is bad. Since last week they have both
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The previous leadership at the Spectator fired Taki after he was convicted of attempted rape (the charge was upheld at appeal). The new leadership has invited him back to write about the "inevitable slings and arrows" that are aimed an "ardent womaniser."
Indecent proposal: Madeline Grant and Lara Brown on why marriage is the real rebellion 🔸 Douglas Murray: The theatre isn’t a thinktank 🔸 Tim Shipman: Reeves’s road to ruin 🔸 James Heale and Michael Simmons: Bring back the Budget tipple! 🔸 Rod Liddle: The obvious truth
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After Kemi Badenoch branded it a "budget for benefit street", IPPR analysis shows that 70% of the cash from abolishing the two-child limit goes to kids whose parents are in work
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Other anti-poverty verdicts are also available
The results are in...this was the Benefits Street Budget: Rachel Reeves has raised taxes to a record high, in order to spend more money on welfare. It is totally unsustainable and will make the whole country poorer.
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Nigel Farage currently giving his analysis of Rachel Reeves's Budget. Here's his analysis of Liz Truss's mini-Budget. https://t.co/LdLRndnLdr
Today was the best Conservative budget since 1986.
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Hard to overstate what the OBR leak means for Rachel Reeves, it will be all people are talking about outside Westminster
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Gordon McKee what have you unleashed
Billionaire wealth keeps piling up. Everyone else is left with less and less. With this mountain of pasta, I show why we need to tax the Billionaires.
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Good to speak with @AlexofBrown at the @DailyMirror about the first rail fares freeze in 30 years. Passengers come first as we bring the train operating companies into public ownership. https://t.co/jptXhyh6Wn
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The Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to freeze rail fares at the Budget, saving existing rail passengers £600 million in 2026/27, across more than a billion train journeys
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Labour peer Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis on the Kindertransport as a child, says the asylum shake-up will make the UK less welcome. He says he's "depressed" by the hardline measures announced yesterday, adding: "What we need is a bit of compassion in our politics".
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NEW: Keir Starmer tells the Mirror he'll lead Labour to the next election - and says the top focus should be cost of living not time-wasting rows https://t.co/D2pKusVsb2
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The Prime Minister hit out at time-wasting rows over party leadership and said bearing down on cost of living pressures clobbering families was his top priority
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Angela Rayner also branded Nigel Farage a “snake oil salesman”, accusing him of opposing the life’s work of one of Westminster’s most working class MPs https://t.co/mCsj4vDmyX
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The former Labour Deputy Leader tore into the Reform UK leader, and accused him of trying to prevent her putting more power into the hands of the working class
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Ms Rayner also called for an end to the two-child benefit cap to help end the "evil of child poverty". The former Deputy Labour Leader referenced her own upbringing, and argued it was not right to penalise children. https://t.co/weSeW8rf6u
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The former Deputy Labour Leader referenced her own upbringing, and argued it was not right to penalise children by stripping away benefits that could lift them out of poverty
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EXC: Angela Rayner has condemned the Labour infighting this week as "arrogant tittle tattle" when the public are facing real challenges. The former Deputy PM called for party unity, reminding colleagues this was opportunity to change people's lives
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The former Deputy Labour Leader slapped down the infighting that engulfed Labour this week, condemning it as 'arrogant tittle tattle', and called for a focus on the issues
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Sadiq Khan has written for The Mirror about London being the best city in the world, and claimed its critics are talking 'baseless, unpatriotic nonsense' https://t.co/UatsiKy8u2
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'The fact that London has again been crowned greatest city in the world disproves everything our critics claim, and they can’t stand it', the London Mayor Sadiq Khan writes
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