Rob
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Comms person, genuinely awful footballer.
SE London
Joined April 2010
Is that surprising? He can afford to. Nobody in the current or future White House knows who Ed Davey is and has no need to.
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So many chunks of broadcast eaten up whining about the tough choices faced by privately educated households, so few chunks used to explain that big employer NICs hikes tend to = lower pay growth and fewer new jobs.
The right could have focused on attacking employer NICs as a tax on jobs. Instead, they're focusing on billionaires upset about paying IHT on their farms and private schools fees. Labour will be fine with that.
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Born in Devon, educated in Hampshire, former MP of Portsmouth, can’t wait to hear all about her rich, longstanding connection to the capital.
🚨 NEW: Penny Mordaunt has been tipped to stand for London Mayor in 2028. [@JAHeale].
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So petty. I reckon we should improve the UK’s relationship with Europe but I don’t think offering tax breaks for London’s international schools does anything to achieve that.
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‘48% believe Reeves should prioritise cutting taxes, 43% want more money for public services’ there’ll be many who have both in their top two because the UK is forever this:
EXCL: Polling by @Savanta_UK shows just 20% of voters believe Budget will be good for them. And 48% believe Reeves should prioritise cutting taxes, while 43% would rather see more money for public services. It’s all in the HuffPost UK Budget preview ⬇️.
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Good. Next actually deliver on planning reform and let’s get building.
NEW. Treasury effectively confirms debt rule loosening, by announcing its new “guardrails” to channel capital spending goes to a 10 year pipeline of major projects that generate economic returns that will help “depoliticise infrastructure”.
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Maybe they still do and I’ve just aged into the ‘Preparing For Death But Still Cheap’ demographic.
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Doing my civic duty by advising anyone who may want to watch this for the first time that no you don’t.
On Wednesday night, the BBC will airing the nuclear apocalypse film 'Threads' for the fourth time ever. It was aired originally in 1984, then repeated in 1985 and was last broadcast by on BBC Four in 2003.
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In the UK we used to have an MP like this, but at least Andrew Brigden received so few votes at the 2024 election that he lost his deposit.
Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.
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The adult baby interview is off.
While prepping to interview Boris Johnson tomorrow, by mistake I sent our briefing notes to him in a message meant for my team. That obviously means it’s not right for the interview to go ahead. It’s very frustrating, and there’s no point pretending it’s anything other than.
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This whole discourse is probably one of the most tedious things about living in the UK.
It does not mean what it used to mean. More than half of people who do professional jobs - managers, doctors, lawyers - say they are “working class”. People love talking up their origins - but a quarter of people whose *parents* did middle class jobs say they’re working class
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Nursery occasionally sends my son home with some other kid’s top on. These kids are three.
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‘Likability’ must be a bit of a gut punch.
If I did a word, summarising what the focus groups saw as the weakness of each candidate, they'd be.Badenoch: Experience.Cleverly: Seriousness.Jenrick: Likability .Tugendhat: Posh.Patel: Divisive.Stride: Unexciting.
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Proper Brendan Rodgers ‘and I’ll open this envelope at the end of the season’ feel to this.
In the 2024 Commons intake- all parties - I reckon there are about 20 who are "accidents waiting to happen".
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I can *maybe* get on board with ‘let’s double check the qualifiers to make sure this is tapered correctly’. But you’re saying I need to pay to heat Andrew Lloyd Webber’s house?.
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