Rob Powell
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Political Correspondent @SkyNews // Dad // For allotment stuff, i’m at https://t.co/jTM3qvIoBl 🌱 // [email protected]
Westminster via Hereford
Joined July 2009
Tensions. Expulsions. Big ambitions. It’s been a rocky year on the political left, as new forces - @thisisyourparty and @ZackPolanski - try to take advantage of Labour’s record unpopularity. @robpowellnews and I have taken a deep dive into the splitting left-wing vote - and
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How a Leicester roundabout could decide the UK's next prime minister. Analysis from Sky's political correspondent @RobPowellNews ⬇️
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The growth of smaller parties and their support is stirring up the next election and could unwittingly decide who enters Downing Street.
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The only good gag in the christmas cracker edition of #PMQs 👇 https://t.co/phBtEBYFfA
Keir Starmer's PMQs Christmas message to Reform UK: "If mysterious men from the East appear bearing gifts, this time report it to the police"
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Oops the Greens seem to have published details of their big defection a couple of hours before the party was set to reveal it. OBR vibes https://t.co/Q18ARcfj2B
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Newcastle Green Party has today welcomed Jamie Driscoll to the party, as local Greens continue to build momentum ahead of the all-out city council elections in May 2026. Jamie Driscoll, former Mayor...
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Could the UK rejoin the Erasmus student exchange scheme? ✈️ 📚 Sky's @robpowellnews joins @SophyRidgeSky & @WilfredFrost to chat about it ⬇️ Read more: https://t.co/KDRxXRCdwf 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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BREAKING: Dulwich College has said claims that Nigel Farage made racist and antisemitic comments to fellow pupils at the school are "profoundly distressing". Mr Farage denies the allegations against him. Sky's @RobPowellNews reports ⬇️ Read more 🔗 https://t.co/uNh3FDxbtO
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A Reform spokesperson said: “This witch hunt is merely an attempt to discredit Reform and Nigel Farage. “Instead of debating Reform on the substance of our ideas and policies, the left wing media and deeply unpopular Labour Party are now using 50 year old smears in a last act
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The comments come in a letter to former Dulwich pupil Jean-Pierre Lihou. Nigel Farage said: “I have not met or spoken to this master. So I am surprised by his uninformed comments in response to claims from nearly 50 years ago from politically motivated actors. “If he is
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MORE - In the first reported statement from the school about the accusations - which date from 1970s - current Master Robert Milne wrote “such behaviour is wholly incompatible with the values the College holds”.
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NEW - Dulwich College has said allegations that Nigel Farage made racist and antisemitic comments to fellow pupils at the school are “profoundly distressing” and “entirely at odds with the Dulwich College of today”.
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Labour is in danger of presenting itself as the “maintenance department for the country”, says Wes Streeting. Which is another way of saying Keir Starmer is the caretaker prime minister.
WES STREETING: “I’M PRETTY FRUSTRATED” Interview with @PronouncedAlva Labour, languishing in the polls, is having a torrid time in office and a leadership contest is widely expected at some point in 2026. Privately, cabinet ministers barely pretend that the party isn’t in deep
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Will the resident doctors' strike in the lead-up to Christmas be cancelled? 🩺 @robpowellnews joins @SophyRidgeSky & @WilfredFrost to chat about what has changed ⬇️ https://t.co/lmkQUyAYHJ 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Rachel Reeves suggesting that £9bn of headroom in the 2024 budget and 2025 spring statement was not too low. Chancellor suggests things have changed since the spring on trade, conflicts & supply chains - hence the increased headroom. Have they really changed that much?!
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Chancellor rules out imposing Capital Gains Tax on primary residences and rules out changing the state pension triple lock to a single lock in this parliament.
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Rachel Reeves questioned by MPs about when she said "it would... be possible to stick with the manifesto commitments, but that would require things like deep cuts in capital spending". She says there are "always other options available... those are two options".
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Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says Donald Trump is wrong about London Mayor Sadiq Khan. She says he is doing a "really good job" and she "strongly disagrees" with the US President's comments about him being a "disgusting" mayor.
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Increasingly clear what the rolling Tory election campaign is going to be in the coming years 👇
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We've had a new report out into maternity and neonatal care and honestly... there's not a single surprise in it. It's still - and I don't use these words lightly - a total disgrace. We've had multiple reports telling us this. And yet the same problems keep happening. Women not
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