Jade Azim
@JadeFrancesAzim
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Politico with occasional takes on TV and elsewhere, Head of Policy @goodgrowthfdn, and often found with overpriced wine in Westminster pubs.
London, England
Joined May 2010
Such a beautiful tradition. Every year since 1947, Norway has honoured us with a 25 metre Christmas tree in gratitude for our wartime support. May the friendship between our countries continue for generations to come. 🇳🇴🇬🇧 Merry Christmas, London! ✨️
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The OBR has been making us poorer for over a decade. They've underestimated the impact of public spending (cuts) on growth. That has helped lead to a doom loop: Cuts -> Lower growth -> lower revenues -> missed borrowing target -> more cuts etc. https://t.co/WUMQbnSN62
newstatesman.com
It has been making us poorer for 14 years
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I don’t think modern historians of British politics have grasped how much the lingering psychological trauma of Youth Conference 2016, Scarborough has actually impacted the modern politics of the British Left lmao
@SocialistNIRE @zarahsultana Zarah & I ran together as candidates for a joint position in Young Labour at the Youth Conference in 2016, the conference was held in Scarborough, that's what I am referring to.
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Looking at Skyscanner while waiting for your return flight to Gatwick; that’s British culture.
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This is absolute cinema. That cut! Iconic.
This is worthy of Stalin. Almost comic. Who is screaming orders at the vision mixer to “cut the feed”?
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I am beyond obsessed with this conference
“Jeremy Corbyn is running a witch-hunt against the left,” says an audience member at Zarah Sultana’s rally
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In actual reality: a tax avoiding landlord leaves the UK when asked to contribute. That’s patriotism!
Another huge tax payer leaving the UK today. Finally got the keys to our new home in Dubai. Get stuffed @Keir_Starmer The UK needs to do better.
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As someone often accused of being a centrist dad, me getting grouped in with populists is a new twist! Not least for proposing mild reforms not too different than ideas known radical William Hague has got behind. And this is the problem: mild reforms of this body get shut down
Utter nonsense. Attacking independent institutions for publishing best estimates of economic & fiscal consequences of policy because they don’t correspond with your prejudices is what got us Brexit and Truss. Polanski and Farage will agree with you. I do not.
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A very interesting @MileEndInst event today for @QMUL students about the budget. Frank and insightful analysis from @p_ikek @JadeFrancesAzim @LeeDavidEvansUK, chaired by @DanielGover Very good student turnout and questions.
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The 1% of 2024 Tories who'd vote for Your Party, I just wanna talk
Just 30% of 2024 Green voters would consider voting for Your Party, down from 58% in July, while the number of 2024 Labour voters considering Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana's party has fallen from 31% to 20% https://t.co/E8OY57w6AY
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This person’s home has quadrupled in value and is rented out, presumably at thousands of pounds a month, yet thinks he is a victim of this economy. People like this extract from our economy, not contribute to it. The country will be better off when this isn’t normal.
🇬🇧🏠 We purchased a modest little townhouse in Fulham many moons ago, back when you could still get change from a half a million quid in SW6. Fast forward to 2025 and it now scrapes the £2m mark, literally the borderline where Labour’s threatened “mansion tax” starts to bite.
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Very proud of the @GoodGrowthFdn team for our first successful Budget recommendations.
In a system that still needs change, we’re proud to have secured several wins in the Budget: 🪙Cost-of-living support 📈Improved EIS relief 🏘️Boosted high-street relief 🧮And a more balanced property tax approach
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Ed Miliband vindicated
This how the new surcharge on homes worth £2m or more will operate, says the OBR: 'The Government has announced the introduction of a new high value council tax surcharge. From April 2028, owners of properties identified as being valued at over £2 million by the Valuation Office
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This has never been more timely BTW.
Every word from @prafulnargund in this is correct 👇 https://t.co/FVxSNNT3UD
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Have they put Wes on the literal naughty step?
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Utterly ludicrous overstepping here from a body that clearly needs complete reform.
BREAKING: The Office for Budget Responsiblity has published its economic and fiscal document *BEFORE* Rachel Reeves delivers her budget. Unprecedented.
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🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 The fantastic @claire_ainsley has joined the GGF Advisory Board! Claire brings unrivalled experience shaping progressive policy - from running Center-Left Renewal at @ppi to leading strategy for Keir Starmer. A huge addition to the good growth mission.
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Shout out to Gordon for a genuinely excellent example of digestible (heh) comms about an issue lefties have struggled to talk about in a human way, but also a shout out to the staffers who worked on this. Some stone cold comms geniuses somewhere on the IPSA pay scale.
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I can’t believe the BBC are platforming Gilead now.
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