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Lead politics presenter, Sky News. “Fuelled by canteen hash browns” - the Sunday Times. Watch the Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge 7pm Mon-Thurs
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If you haven't given us a try yet, the Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge is on Monday-Thursday 7pm
@skynews
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Rishi Sunak: "When this is over - and it will be over - we want to look back on this moment and remember the small acts of kindness done by us and to us. We want to remember how we thought first of others and acted with decency... it's on all of us"
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As reporters prepare to descend on Uxbridge & South Ruislip - spare a thought for the lady in what I think is the most viral video I’ve ever made
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Wonderful cartoon in
@thetimes
that, I think, helps explain why so many people will find today so emotional
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🙏 Thank you to Sterling’s sister - who chaperoned her little brother to QPR every day when she was 17, taking three buses and getting home at 11pm
This whole article is worth your time
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A lot has been said about sexism & the culture in Westminster but there’s just one thing I would like to add.
The bad behaviour I’ve experienced is when men didn’t realise I was a journalist.
I think it’s important when we talk about harassment to also talk about power
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Picture has worsened for the Conservatives throughout the day. Currently at a net loss of 384 seats across England, Scotland & Wales
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The CEO of Dover Port says of the delays, "the post Brexit environment needs every passport needs to be checked
Suella Braverman: "I don't think it's fair to say this is an adverse effect of Brexit"
#Ridge
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Rishi Sunak has just said he stopped taxes on meat, compulsory car sharing & sorting your rubbish into seven different bins.
Does anyone remember when these were actually going to happen?
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A few messages I've received from Conservative MPs in response to the by elections:
"The problem with the PM is while he may be a first rate academic he is a fifth rate politician. He does not connect, he has the leadership qualities of an amoeba."
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Is anyone else finding their Twitter timeline is full of tweets from people they don’t follow, but others have liked? 🧐
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“Those pesky peers in the House of Lords are continuing to block any attempts to get the Rwanda policy off the ground”
“But you abstained in the Rwanda vote, didn’t you?”
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“The advice says you should apply for asylum when you arrive in the UK, but it also says your claim effectively won’t be considered if you travelled to the UK through a safe third country.
It’s basically impossible to claim asylum legally then, isn’t it?”
.
@SophyRidgeSky
: If you're not from Afghanistan or Ukraine, what are the safe and legal means to seek asylum in the UK?
@VotePursglove
says govt "responds to crises as they emerge" and have "bespoke schemes" in place.
#TheTake
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Asked about his message to the 48% of people who voted to Remain, Jean Claude Juncker says: “I would like to say to the 48 that they were right”
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When I told my team I was thinking about speaking tonight about the fiscal drag, I’ll be honest, there was some concern about the viewing figures
But are we ok with this much public spending being funded by a tax rise that nobody is really talking about?
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Lord Heseltine says he will vote against the Conservative Party for the first time because it is "forcing through the biggest act of economic self-harm ever undertaken by a democratic government” - he'll vote Lib Dem in the European elections
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Just wrote down my name & mobile number for contact tracing in a cafe, and the waiter says he’ll call me tonight at 9pm. Obviously a joke buuuuut not that funny? 😬
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Withdrawing despite having the support, rather than because you don’t have enough support, is a nicer narrative
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Just spent 18 minutes of my life watching a parish council meeting. And it’s amazing
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Alistair Darling once told me a story about a newspaper reporter who once appeared at his house. He was doing some gardening at the time. The reporter assumed he was the gardener & asked if he knew where Alistair Darling was. “Sorry I’ve no idea,” replied Alistair Darling
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Biggest cheer in the hall when Rachel Reeves says she’ll tax private schools to fund state schools - and if Rishi Sunak wants a fight on it “bring it on”
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I was very moved by this. Keir Starmer talking about his relationship with his father and how it impacted him
“I probably should addressed that before he passed. I wish I had. But I didn’t.”
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Janet Skinner - wrongly accused of stealing £56k from the Post Office. Sent to the same prison as Rose West. Couldn’t face telling her two teenage children before she was sent down. Lost her home. Lost her health. Utterly heartbreaking 💔
"I just cried that much I probably didn't have enough tears to cry."
Former sub-postmistress Janet Skinner tells
@SophyRidgeSky
about being sent to prison after being accused of stealing from the Post Office
#PoliticsHub
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I can’t quite believe it but this week is the final ever Sophy Ridge on Sunday. The last six years have been an absolute privilege. Thank you to everyone who has watched and made it part of your Sunday routine. It’s something I have never taken forgranted.
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I don’t think I’ve ever reached out to hold an MP’s hand during an interview before.
But this interview with
@PaulBlomfieldMP
- speaking about his father taking his own life, despite wanting to live - is incredibly moving and worth your time.
#Ridge
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I love Telegraph letters page - who knew it was also brilliant back in 1913?
http://t.co/gB1f9QR2fr
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I don’t know what happened with Russell Brand. He denies criminality.
But I DO understand why women might not report rape to the police
My take on tonight’s
#PoliticsHub
👇
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This was the situation a month ago - Pakistan & Bangladesh were on the red list and India wasn't:
Apr 16
Daily new confirmed cases per 1M
India 136.72
Pakistan 22.11
Bangladesh 33.12
Total cases per 1M:
India 10,527
Pakistan 3,396
Bangladesh 4,322
Apr 23 India added to red list
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🔥 Conservative peer
@SayeedaWarsi
says Home Secretary
@SuellaBraverman
is “dangerous and divisive” and some of her colleagues in government “project as patriots but are indeed arsonists”
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Suella Braverman: We have seen "vulnerable white English girls being pursued and raped and drugged and harmed by gangs of British Pakistani men" and people have "turned a blind eye due to political correctness"
#Ridge
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Felt a bit emotional 🥲 My job is such a privilege... see you on the other side...
'When I'm back, let's hope that talk of new restrictions and new variants are a thing of the past.'
A special message from
@SophyRidgeSky
who will be going on maternity leave from today.
Veteran broadcaster Trevor Phillips will take on hosting
#Ridge
:
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I started today thinking that the Home Secretary was basically unsackable.
But now I’m not so sure - after No10 said publicly they demanded changes to Suella Braverman’s article in the Times - and she ignored them.
Frankly, it makes the PM look weak
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England were brilliant. I don’t care what anyone says. What a team to be proud of ❤️
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Sleeves rolled up, covered in glitter...
Keir Starmer will get credit for dealing with the protester & cracking on with his speech
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The brilliant
@joncraig
summarises the James Cleverly ****hole row and I totally lose it on TV (for I think the first time)
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Blimey. Sajid Javid says the changes he was asked to accept in the reshuffle would not have been in the national interest & a Chancellor needs to be able to speak truth to power 🔥
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Police statement when Liverpool fans gathered to celebrate winning the league in June: “Last night children and families were present and heavy handed police intervention was therefore not appropriate at the time”
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Bethany Shriever had to fund her own qualification & worked part-time as a teaching assistant to cover her training costs
“Prince of Peckham” Kye Whyte’s parents would sleep in their car when they took him to race as a youngster
I love how happy they are for each other ❤️
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Incredible timing.
Rishi Sunak announces T Levels will be scrapped… during “T levels week”
Someone needs to tell the DfE Twitter guys…
🎉Today is the start of T Levels Week 2023 🎉
Discover the opportunities with T Levels, equipping you with skills for today's workforce, from hands-on training to valuable knowledge.
Join us and embrace the future of technical education
#TLevelsWeek
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“Rishi Sunak said he blocked plans to tax meat, introduce compulsory car sharing and make people sort their rubbish into seven bins. Can you remind me when these things were actually going to happen? Maybe I've got amnesia. I can't remember any of these”
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Why didn't you ask Suella Braverman about the details of what happened?
"I don't make it my business to go phoning people at 20 past 7 in the morning"
"Even if they might have broken the ministerial code?"
#Ridge
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👇We’re taking a very unusual step to try and get answers to our questions about Dominic Cummings...
On tomorrow’s show
@grantshapps
will be responding to the Dominic Cummings story on behalf of the government.
He may understandably not know all of the details we ask for. So we’re taking the unusual step of flagging in advance some of the questions
@SophyRidgeSky
will ask (1/4)
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Rachel Reeves says she’ll stop ministers using non scheduled flights
Clear attempt to leverage their argument the PM is out of touch - “What’s Rishi Sunak so scared of up there in his private jet? Meeting a voter?”
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If you’re talking about how you disagree with the ad, you’re still talking about the ad
See also: £350m on the side of a bus
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🔥 🔥 🔥
In 2019 you called Donald Trump a “sexual predator” and a “misogynist”. Do you stand by that?
Emily Thornberry: Absolutely
That’s not very diplomatic?
“I've always been a bit more Angela Merkel than Theresa May towards him”
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That was an impressive statement from Rishi Sunak - who has been Chancellor for just five weeks
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There’s no
@RidgeOnSunday
today so I’ll just leave you with this quote from Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi from February
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Tusk also mentions that UK can revoke article 50 and cancel Brexit 💥
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Forget the Boris Johnson sideshow. Persistent inflation, rising interest rates and national debt topping 100% of GDP.
This is what will really be worrying No10 (and it should)
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It takes a certain amount of self confidence to launch a group called Popular Conservatism & you’ll need skin as thick as a rhino if you decide to make Liz Truss the face of it
My thoughts on the Pop-Cons & why it’s worth getting the Pop-Corn ready
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Number of people David Cameron’s Coalition Gvt took out of paying income tax: 3.2m (Treasury, 2015)
Number of people the current Gvt brought back into paying income tax: 4 million (OBR, today)
🙃
Via
@Morkins
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211 Conservative MPs voted to say they have confidence in Boris Johnson
148 don't
He needed to limit the rebels to 133 in order to do better as a % than Theresa May - he's done significantly worse
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The Conservative Parliamentary Party is dancing to Suella’s tune. She’s setting the music – she’s in control of the playlist.
And that means Conservative MPs constantly having to respond to the latest track Suella’s chosen… whether they like it or not
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Bronze medal winner Amelie Morgan’s dad on why his daughter took up gymnastics
“We had twins full of energy, so we had to find something to do. Gymnastics was an hour-and-a-half on a Saturday morning, and everything else was just an hour”
😂❤️
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Moment of the day
Paul Johnson: "a lot of these numbers... are sort of made up"
Paul Johnson, Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, says a lot of the numbers referenced in the autumn statement are "sort of made up".
He considers how today's announcements may impact the UK economy ahead of the next general election.
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My analysis on Tony Blair & why it’s refreshing to interview someone who actually answers the questions....
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Scoop by
@johnestevens
&
@mikeysmith
- first partygate video shows Conservative Party staff at CCHQ
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The slight problem is that Wayne Couzens wasn’t pretending to be a police officer, he was an actual police officer
Any lone, plain clothed police officer who engages with a woman on her own will now verify their identity through a new process.
We know we need to regain women’s trust.
We fully accept the onus is on us to verify we are who we say we are & that we are acting appropriately.
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Staff had to create a “puppy gate” using two chairs against a door to keep Boris Johnson in his study while isolating, according to
@Steven_Swinford
@hzeffman
@oliver_wright
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Liz Truss will be Britain’s third female Prime Minister and I’ve been struck by the lack of comment on it… are we finally getting towards the place where a female PM isn’t seen as unusual?
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The Police & Crime Commissioner who triggered TWO police investigations into political opponents
This is the perfect example of the importance of journalism investigating politics away from Westminster
@SamCoatesSky
@TomLarkinSky
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“…and then we became the first team to keep five consecutive clean sheets in the Euros..”
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📺 Personal news 📺
I’m really excited to say that I’ll be hosting a brand new Wednesday evening show - The Take with Sophy Ridge - which will take the mid week political pulse by interviewing MPs and hearing from viewers.
It will be on
@skynews
Wednesdays at 9pm from Spring
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This is a v troubling glimpse into how AI is changing politics… the audio has been all over my timeline. I agree it’s a threat to democracy
There is a deep fake audio circulating this morning of Keir Starmer - ignore it.
It’s a reminder why the upcoming AI summit organised by the Prime Minister is so important.
From the Slovakian elections a few days ago to today’s incident, this is a new threat to democracy.
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“All the way down at the bottom is teachers. You can see why they will be feeling a little bit hard done by"
The Education Secretary is shown a graph of real term pay rises since 2011
#Ridge
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I am genuinely baffled that asking the Prime Minister about comments by the US President on sexually assaulting women is seen as a "stunt"
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“Last month Rishi Sunak met Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince. What’s more important then do you think? The mass execution of 81 men in 2022? It being illegal to be gay? Or the fact that someone made a few comments about some marbles that are 2000 years old?”
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I’ve spent the day with Keir Starmer in a primary school in Harlow.
Honestly, I’ve sometimes found Starmer quite impenetrable as a politician. Today I feel like I learned a lot more about what drives him. It got quite emotional at points.
Full interview 7pm
#PoliticsHub
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The face of someone who scored a hat trick in a World Cup final and still lost, and really can’t deal with talking to the President right now
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I’m really excited to announce that I’ll be launching a new daily politics show at 7pm
@SkyNews
- the Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge. If you enjoyed the Sunday show, I’d love it if you gave us a try from September. I cannot wait to get stuck in!
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Lots of comparisons to the end of Theresa May’s premiership in 2018 when she was struggling to get Brexit legislation through. But seems to me there’s one crucial difference - Rishi Sunak chose to make Rwanda a defining issue, Theresa May had no choice re Brexit
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“I was told off by very senior figures in the party about my outspoken views on food banks”
Worth listening to
@icelandrichard
speaking about why he is no longer running to be a Conservative candidate 👇
"The Conservative Party don't want people with genuine views, experience or opinions of their own"
@icelandrichard
shares why he is no longer running to be a Tory party candidate.
#PoliticsHub
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“I genuinely don’t understand that sentence…I don’t understand that answer, forgive me”
Was Boris Johnson aware of allegations around Chris Pincher when he was appointed Deputy Chief Whip?
#Ridge
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Here’s my full exchange with the Health Secretary on how the NHS workforce plan will be funded
#Ridge
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Two million people have now signed a petition calling for Article 50 to be revoked & the UK to stay in the EU
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Amazing picture… the moment
@ZelenskyyUa
finds out that Germany has agreed Ukraine can use Leopard tanks, during an interview with
@KayBurley
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Jeremy Hunt - to laughter from opposition benches - "A Conservative Government working with the Bank of England will always put sound money first"
Does that exclude a Liz Truss gvt who famously clashed with Bank of England?
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If you wanted a demonstration of how fast things are moving today, Nadhim Zahawi did a broadcast round this morning as the new Chancellor saying the PM had integrity. Now he's saying it's time to go.
Told a delegation of three cab ministers - Zahawi, Hart and Lewis (who is currently in Belfast) have made it clear to chief whip it’s time for PM to go. This trio say his position now untenable.
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The PM’s spokesman has now confirmed Number 10 officials initiated a meeting between Sue Gray and Boris Johnson to discuss her investigation into lockdown parties…
.
@SophyRidgeSky
: 'Who called the meeting between Sue Gray and the PM?'
Education Secretary
@nadhimzahawi
says 'he doesn't know' and insists the investigation has been "robust and rigorous."
#Ridge
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“Lee Anderson was going to vote against the bill, but Labour started laughing at him, so he walked back out... what's going on there?”
“He is very passionate…”
“Not passionate enough to vote the way he wanted, b/c he got laughed at”
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Like many women, I’m honestly quite shaken by
#SarahEverard
and Kate McCann has managed to articulate why...
What happened to Sarah Everard has hit home hard for so many women because we make the calculations she did every day too. We take the longer, better-lit route, push the fear aside for the voice that says ‘don't be daft, you've every right to walk home alone at night and be safe’
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I feel like I’m slightly losing my mind here…
We’ve been talking about sending migrants to Rwanda for TWO YEARS. No planes have taken off. A grand total of zero people have been sent to Rwanda under this plan
Thoughts 👇
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(Big shout out to Sterling’s daughter too, who sounds A-M-A-Z-I-N-G)
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Absolutely first class negotiation skills from
@haynesdeborah
son - doesn’t just go for one but TWO biscuits 👏👏
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Cumberland is a brand new council covering an area with THREE Conservative MPs (Carlisle, Workington, Copeland.) And Labour has just gained control of it
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Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van Tam, asked about Dominic Cummings, says that in his opinion the rules are "clear and have always been clear,” they are for the benefit of all and they apply to all 🔥
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My opening
#PoliticsHub
thought tonight on why I think pundits have been underpricing a Labour majority - they are using 2019 as their baseline.
And 2019 was not a usual election. It was the Brexit election. And it was also the Corbyn election
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Sarah Everard did everything we are told to - main road, bright clothing, not too late, keep in contact with loved ones - and it still wasn’t enough.
This is not about women modifying their behaviour.
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“Ask the officer for proof of identity”… but Wayne Couzens WAS a police officer…
We know we have an urgent duty to do more to protect women and girls.
Here are some questions you can ask if you have concerns about an officer.
If you feel you are in imminent danger, always dial 999.
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I ask the boss of Ofcom about this - watch her reply 7pm on
#PoliticsHub
Exclusive Scoop.
Watch me tomorrow on
@GBNEWS
interview
@SuellaBraverman
in her first interview on British soil since her landmark speech this week in the US.
7pm tomorrow night 🖥📺
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