Graham Smith
@PoliGraham
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Labour 🌹| Scottish, so I'm a social democrat | Keir Starmer, Wes Streeting and Anthony Albanese fan | Love the UK 🇬🇧 and Scotland 🏴 | 🏳️🌈 |
Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Joined October 2018
Chaotic carnival of chancers latest: - Jenrick and Braverman vote FOR the abolition of the two child limit while the other four Reform MPs vote against - and of course Farage doesn’t even bother turning up to do his job
Couldn’t make this up. Farage: - WAS calling for the two child limit to be scrapped. - NOW calling for the two child limit to be reinstated Reform aren’t just importing failed Tory politicians. They’re importing failed Tory policies. https://t.co/7VhpyGGj1S
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exc @theipaper Vince Cable backs Labour in Gorton by-election Lib Dem grandee tells me: "For all the problems of the Labour Government they are still strong enough to present the main challenge to Reform and we have got to therefore get behind them"
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Back from my visit to China with @Keir_Starmer feeling optimistic. We’ve secured billions of pounds of investment and export deals for the UK. Including tariffs halved on Scotch whisky. That’s investment that will be felt by communities across the country.
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BREAKING: ‘I'm going to see through the mandate that we won in 2024' The PM tells @carldinnen he won't stand down even if Labour continues to struggle in the polls 'After 14 years of the last government it was always going to take time to change,' Starmer says
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Labour’s week🌹 £250 ground rent cap ✅ Largest overhaul of vet sector in 60yrs 🐾 £39bn for 300,000 social homes🏠 AI courses for 10m adults💻 Reform’s week? 👎 Went to wrong seat in Manchester📍 More failed Tory defections Nige has… gone AWOL?🤷 Need I say more?
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Only Labour can defeat Reform in Gorton and Denton. A vote for the Greens or any other party risks them getting in. We are a tolerant, proud, progressive city and we don’t want their divisive brand of politics here.
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Only about 60 Tory MPs in the Commons for #PMQs today; have the rest defected already?!
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Reminder that Andy Burnham walked off the pitch when he stood down as an MP in 2017. And could have stood to be a Labour MP in 2024, rather than seek re-election as Manchester mayor.
NEW: At a campaign event, Anas Sarwar says Andy Burnham is a “star player on the pitch” and a “friend”, but dodges whether Labour was right to block his path to Westminster.
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Reform UK a.k.a. the Turquoise Tories.
Reform now has Boris Johnson’s… - chancellor (Zahawi) - communities sec (Jenrick) - culture sec (Dorries) - attorney general (Braverman) - political sec (Kruger) - skills minister (Jenkyns) - Northern powerhouse minister (Berry) - health minister (Caulfield) - parliamentary
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A senior Labour MP offers this take on the will-he-won’t-he Burnham saga: “I like Andy but his arrogance on this issue has set him back hugely. He sunk our conference this year and is now overshadowing a good week for the PM.”
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PM right to be so strong against Trump - we will not be bullied. 🇬🇧 The Tories and Reform are both too busy licking Trumps boots to stand up for Britain.
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The Tories buried the dream of home ownership. We’ll bring it back- Build Baby Build!
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Standing ovation for @MarkJCarney at Davos. (Those do not happen often). Brutally honest assessment of the situation Trump is creating for the world and the new approach middle powers now need to take. One of those speeches worth reading in full. Check it out
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Today is #BlueMonday – the “most miserable” day of the year. This weekend I reflected on what we are doing to support men’s mental health, the importance of checking in, and the brilliant local groups making a real difference (shout-out to Buckingham Men in Sheds).
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*The parliamentary Tory Party is actually down to 117 MPs now, I believe. Not that I'm one for splitting hairs...
EXCLUSIVE Kemi Badenoch has called a mass meeting of her Conservative MPs for 6pm tonight after losing two of her MPs to Reform UK in four days, I can disclose. In a letter sent today the Tory leader also laid down the gauntlet to any Conservative MPs flirting with Reform saying
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So it’s official. A majority of Reform’s Parliamentary Party were Tory MPs in 2019. 🚮 They cheered Truss. They botched Brexit. They failed Britain. Now they’re asking for another go. NO THANKS. ❌
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🚨 BREAKING: Tory MP and Shadow Minister Andrew Rosindell has defected to Reform UK
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How *spectacularly* convenient that Farage is “under the weather” the day after his hero, Trump, threatened to impose further tariffs on the UK #BBCLauraK
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I wonder how many Reform voters know that net migration is heading to zero under this Labour government.
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Labour's message at the next election will be pretty clear: the Tories wrecked the country for 14 years, don't let the same people back in to do it all again. https://t.co/0Szdm8T9ix
huffingtonpost.co.uk
The former cabinet minister jumped ship after being sacked by Kemi Badenoch.
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