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All the latest news, stories and gossip in the run up to the UK General Election.
London, England
Joined April 2023
Streeting discussing McSweeney with Starmer
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Did Kemi even prepare for her Today interview today? If so, how on earth did her team not pull it because she was an utter disaster.
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In answer to accusations of austerity CX says: Day-to-day spending reduced by £6.1bn by 2029-30. & will now grow by an av of 1.2%/yr above inflation…against 1.3% in autumn. "Day-to-day spending will increase in real terms, above inflation, in every single year of forecast. And
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Shame on @bbcnickrobinson and #r4today for hanging on the word of bottom feeder Rupert Soames and his evidence-free proclamations. Both CBI and Serco have such damaged reputations yet treated like Moses. Awful.
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Nick Robinson is humiliating Robert Jenerick by exposing his hypocrisy #r4today
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Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; We were honoured to welcome For Your Tomorrow – The People's Tribute by Dan Barton to Stowe Gardens this autumn for the D-Day 80 memorial exhibition. 📷Hugh Mothersole
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The 1,475 silhouettes represent fatalities under British command on June 6th, 1944. They include two nurses, Sister Mollie Evershed and Sister Dorothy Field, who died while helping to save 75 men from the hospital ship SS Amsterdam. #LestWeForget 📷 Polly Stock
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So - one of my new roles at the FT is leading a new monetary policy service (launching soon) This is our assessment of the UK Budget
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Don't get angry often but the water companies' PR man is an insufferable prick. Water companies have been creaming dividends and ruining our rivers. #r4today
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The big questions. Only one answer, though - got to go early before the scones run out.
Half-term is here, the perfect time to catch autumn at a National Trust property. But the big question is do you hit the café at the start or the end of your visit?
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The cabinet being in open revolt this morning is the price Labour pay for their election strategy. @Jeremy_Hunt will be feeling pleased with himself.
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer has just told my colleague Joel that if - as expected - she increases what employers pay to the government in national insurance that would be consistent with the Labour Party's manifesto promise not to "increase national insurance". Rachel
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Reform going in strong tonight with a party political broadcast on prime time BBC One focusing on freebies and immigration
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Dan Wooton suddenly being a political vehicle for bots after being shunted out of showbiz is one of the funniest things about this app.
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Baroness Warsi is proving to be a heavyweight thinker.
We can’t just blame the angry young men who committed violence on our streets - we need to look deeper at the poisoning of the public discourse by powerful people in positions of authority - politicians , think tanks & media deliberately pumping out a divisive poisonous ideology
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Many allies of Boris Johnson and the Tories are cashing in low value cheques against the new Government. The media is playing a risky game in facilitating it. And judging by Chris Mason's odd Sue Gray blog, they know it.
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Interesting to observe how many additional bots have entered the political discourse on this platform over the past 2 months. It's an infestation.
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Watch Ed Miliband school Richard Tice on clean energy Vs fossil fuels. "The only way to get off the roller coaster of international gas markets & take back control... is to become a clean energy superpower."
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Today Labour's plan to bring trains back into public ownership completes its Commons stages. The Passenger Railway Service Bill will then go to the Lords. Transport Secretary Louise Haigh wants to inject life into the Government's early agenda, claiming it will 'eliminate years
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