Peter Henley
@Peter_Henley
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BBC South Political Editor. Chasing politics as it happens from Sussex to Oxford to Dorset…. What's YOUR story?
Southampton
Joined March 2009
Cancelled elections, controversial politics.. cuts to local fire services - and who will fight #fakenews and tell the local stories when things go wrong? #PoliticsSouth from 10am on BBC1 and iPlayer
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If the government cancels the election of Mayors for Hampshire, Essex, Sussex & Suffolk it may be worth reflecting on what @Keir_Starmer told me earlier this year…
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What will #budget25 mean for Berkshire, Hampshire and Surrey? Your representatives held to account on #PoliticsSouth from 10 on BBC1 and iPlayer
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🟢 BRIGHTON KEMPTOWN & PEACEHAVEN: Meg De Meo launches her campaign to be Green candidate for one of the party's prime targets. Her subtitler should be sacked, though. They've called it Peterborough rather than Peacehaven.
Let’s put a worker in parliament. RSVP to our launch party via link in bio
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There’s a great tradition of chicken costumes in British politics.. today they seem to be on the side of the farmers.. #budget25
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Anyone MPs down there want to know what’s in the budget? Chancellor hasn’t stood up yet and we’ve printed off the details for the press gallery
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You can’t get up earlier than the farmers!! I was talking about the tractors coming to protest farm taxes on @BBCSouthNews last night. Looks like they’re already here despite the Met Police ban - this is V close to Parliament…
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Will council tax have to rise to fund SEND education? Will the budget help struggling pubs and venues in the south of England? How can rubbish pile up unnoticed? Spirited discussion on #PoliticsSouth from 10 on BBC1 and iPlayer
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A viewer points out that someone wicked chose the cereal for the PM to pour out at the school breakfast club this morning… Cheerios…
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The budget will be fair for all, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer tells me on a visit to a primary school breakfast club in Reading
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A massive waste dump is in danger of being swept into Oxfordshire’s River Cherwell & @EnvAgencySE is not equipped to stop it @CalumMillerLD has told Parliament. Minister Emma Hardy says a criminal investigation is underway & there will be multi-agency support
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At #CPC25 Suella Braverman says People are rightly very cynical about the Conservative Party - time will tell if we can regain trust.
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Happy Sunday people on X .. We had a great time putting the world to rights on #PoliticsSouth and if you missed it… NO PROBLEM!! Watch again on iPlayer here: https://t.co/eROhTMEbFR really worth 30mins of your time.. but then I’m biased ! (Jokes)
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40 years ago, tomorrow, Neil Kinnock went to Bournemouth and delivered the speech of his life…
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Thanks for lovely messages congratulating me on retirement. I’m really enjoying a last hurrah at my last time as a reporter covering the government conference.
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Just had an interesting conversation with the Prime Minister, as you do.. Watch @bbcsouthnews tonight to hear what he has to say about the teenage gangs terrorising Southampton shopkeepers. Interestingly he didn’t agree that they should be more scared of the police
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