Sophia Falkner
@SophiaFalkner
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Currently @spectator, former Special Adviser in No10
London, England
Joined August 2017
Peerless: Charles Moore and Sophia Falkner on the purge of the hereditaries 🔸 Laurie Penny: Long live Comrade Corbyn! 🔸 Jacob Rees-Mogg: My P.G. Wodehouse summer 🔸 Lionel Shriver: How governments gaslight 🔸 Madeline Grant: The joy of middle names
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🎙️ The Edition: Peerless – the purge of the hereditary peers 🔸 Charles Moore and @SophiaFalkner on Keir’s peer purge 🔸 @_F_B_G_ and @EsmeLKPartridge on how to pick an archbishop 🔸 @patrick_kidd and Dr Tom Webb: is AI ruining sport? Listen here 👇 https://t.co/zYXG01zObY
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This week: Peerless – the purge of the hereditary peers For this week’s cover, Charles Moore declares that the hereditary principle in Parliament is dead. Even though he lacks ‘a New Model Army’ to...
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With @SophiaFalkner: from excitement to unease, how the new Tory intake are faring in parliament, one year on https://t.co/jOV7218NbS
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It is a year today that the survivors of the 2024 Tory election disaster began to make their way to Westminster. Among the 121 Conservative MPs were 26 first-timers. Having lost so much talent last...
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When making speeches, politicians tend to have a figure in mind: Mondeo man or Stevenage woman Rachel Reeves had one person in her sights yesterday: Nigel Farage Good piece by @SophiaFalkner
https://t.co/ympzUjMAXm
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So why double down on a strategy that was hardly popular with the electorate?
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Female offenders are already less likely to go to prison than men. If they do, they face shorter sentences. ✍️ Sophia Falkner
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Having spent an excessive amount of time thinking about Starmer’s qualities (courtesy of previous role advising @RishiSunak on PMQs), I took a look at Starmer’s missing leadership qualities and what he can learn from those who have actually delivered disruptive change @ConHome
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