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The cover: Why George Osborne still runs Britain. By @willydunn . Also inside:.đź”´ Kate Mossman meets @GordonBrown.đź”´ @hannahsbee on birth trauma .đź”´ @georgeeaton: How Labour learned to love immigration control.đź”´ Tom Cruise's ego trip.đź”´ The end of privacy
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RT @GMonaghan1998: I bowled down to Westminster this morning to write up Nick Clegg's speech, and even got to speak to him :) https://t.co/….
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RT @georgeeaton: Excellent interview-profile of Nick Thomas-Symonds – “the brain behind Labour’s EU deal” – by @AndrewMarr9. .
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“These are all sovereign decisions by the government” . Nick Thomas-Symonds to @AndrewMarr9.
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"Amid the current hullabaloo about 'betrayal' and 'surrender', Nick Thomas-Symonds is keen for a robust political fight with the Tories and Reform over a deal which business has greeted so enthusiastically." . 🖊️ @AndrewMarr9.
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"No one agrees with Nick. Not anymore. Cleggmania ended not with an assassination, but by self-slaughter.". 🖊️ @GMonaghan1998: Can you ever forgive Nick Clegg? .
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Why Kemi Badenoch’s Brexit attacks won’t work . The Conservatives are still haunted by their past failures on Europe. 📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @RMCunliffe .
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The brain behind Labour’s EU deal. 🖊️ @AndrewMarr9: With his talk of “ruthless pragmatism”, is Nick Thomas-Symonds the heir to Harold Wilson?.
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RT @hannahsbee: Delighted to be nominated in two categories - Feature of the Year and Opinion Piece of the Year - at the 2025 Association o….
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The EU-UK reset exposes the limits of a “geopolitical Europe”. @hanskundnani: The common understanding agreement is as aspirational as it is skeletal.
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Are the Blairites still the future? . Morgan Jones: The institutions behind the Labour right are not as close to Keir Starmer’s Labour Party as they might like.
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Privately, however, the party’s backbenches are, as one MP put it to me “almost universally pissed off”. 🖊️ @meganekenyon: Starmer faces his unhappy backbenchers
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The Democrats must reckon with a series of revelations about the former president's health. 🌎 @freddiejh8 on What Biden's cancer diagnosis means for his legacy
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Many have questioned whether Badenoch will lead the party at the next election. Prior to the 1 May locals, Street told me such talk was “ridiculous… premature”. Now, “The jury’s out, isn’t it?” . 🗣️ @HarryClrke meets Andy Street
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Review: Change Your Mind, Change Your Life with Matt and Emma Willis. "It’s pitiable, but I guess they’re some BBC bigwig’s idea of relatable.". 📺 @MsRachelCooke .
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"Streamers have flocked to Britain to make shows but are now increasingly refusing to work on co-productions with British companies.". đź“ź @alisonp_journo says British TV will be a victim of the US trade deal
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“If [the Tories] oppose the deal, they’re supporting job cuts and barriers to trade,” a Reeves adviser told me. 📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton: Labour’s Europe deal is a trap for Brexiteers
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“I wanted to show you how moderate conservatism was still a winning force,” Street remarked in his speech. “Sadly,” he went on, “that was not to be.”. 🗣️ @HarryClrke meets Andy Street
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"Leavers used to take pride in asserting that the elites were on the wrong side of the people, but they now find this charge thrown back at them.". 📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton: Labour’s Europe deal is a trap for Brexiteers
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Andy Street: “We must not allow people to fall in love with Reform”. The former West Midlands mayor on the case for moderate conservatism. 🗣️ @HarryClrke meets Andy Street
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