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Host of Tom Swarbrick at Drive Mon-Fri 4-6pm @LBC + massively amateur golfer insta:

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Tom Swarbrick
4 years
I get the feeling that this moment will be replayed again and again and again. Politically, absolutely toxic.
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2 years
Sorry wait what?!? Did I just hear that right? Did the PM just admit to an off-the-books, official-less meeting as Foreign Secretary with a former KGB officer while on a personal jaunt in Italy??!! #liaisoncommittee
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2 years
Why are furious keyboard warriors telling a recently released prisoner, who spent 6 years in prison in Iran, what *she* should feel about her time in there?! Who are these people?
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2 years
The Cabinet knows he’s done. The Party knows he’s done. Rumour is that a number of PPSs are off in the next 24 hours. It’s over.
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😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬 We’ve waited 3 weeks for a GP phone call about our 5 year old. The phone rang this afternoon but my wife was driving and couldn’t answer. She pulled over and rang them back. We have to rebook and wait. Outrageous.
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1 year
Every word. Absolutely spot on.
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Andrew, who has family stuck in Moldova having fled Ukraine, says @LBC he was told by the Home Office to “call back next Monday”. He says they are charging a fee for the application process… Surely…*surely*…not.
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2 years
A Tory MP gets in touch: “We are eeking out the final hours and days of this Government. We aren’t talking about weeks or months” Don’t see how that happens without quite a few Cabinet resignations in the coming hours, but even still 👀👀👀👀
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2 years
Wow wow wow.
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2 years
As astonishingly chaotic as having the interior designer of the flat wander around No10 looking to ask a question of the PM. This quote via ⁦ @ShippersUnbound
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5 years
This is the interview that needed to happen. Every time we have #ExtinctionRebellion on the show, we always ask how to reduce to net zero by 2025. No practical answers come forth. @afneil calmly, carefully, politely demolishes that target.
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2 years
The Tavistock gender identity clinic “experimented” on vulnerable children It should rightly be viewed as a catastrophic failure.
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3 months
Very big story this. Government sitting on 15 reports some of which, the author says, show security failings at the U.K’s borders. In an election year. Who wants to start a sweepstake about how long it takes for all of them to leak?!
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David Neal has issued a staunch defence of his decision to speak to the media about details of his inspection reports. Says he identified security failings, which he reported to the Home Office but has no confidence that the department will publish them after sitting on 15 of…
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1 year
Falling apart isn’t it… Simple questions. Deeply confused answers. (via @PeterAdamSmith )
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4 years
Oh man. Just had a dad nearly in tears on the show tonight. @LBC An Albanian who fled war, his son was due to study Law at @UoNSU with AAA predicted. He was given CDE. Now not going... #examfiasco
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4 years
Dr Birx’s face .... #COVID19
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8 months
Utterly, utterly vile.
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8 months
Laurence Fox just did a whole speech on GB News on why men apparently won’t shag me ?
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10 months
This is glorious. Good morning
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3 years
The silence here says it all. Unbelievable. Wild show last night. 🤪🤯
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3 years
Just contested a parking ticket and *won*! Bloody won!!! Now off to sort out the Middle East
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2 months
Have surprised myself with just how much rage I feel at this story. It’s not like she made an error *because* she was a Cabinet Minister. She made an error and *happens* to be a Cabinet Minister CCHQ could have paid the bill. But not me and you!!
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Mikey Smith
2 months
Refusing to say how much taxpayers' money has been spent on Donelan's court settlement is *terrible* news management. You could disclose it now and have one story fighting it out with budget stories, or you can disclose it via FOI in early April, and have two stories.
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The Mark Menzies story… I’m trying to find the words for it for 5pm @LBC … Cos I can’t really go on the radio and just keep saying “bloody hell” for an hour. It is absolutely mental and is yet another example of the “natural Party of government” turning into a total ****show
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5 years
I’ve got a feeling I’m going to be using this clip A LOT over the coming years for all sorts of wonderful, wonderful reasons. ⁦ @adamboultonSKY ⁩ 😂😂
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4 years
Labour Party is going to need some patching up after all this... @iaindale , you shouldn’t be giggling... @GMB #GeneralElection
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2 years
Absolutely unbelievable that @HertsPolice would arrest, handcuff and take the mugshot of a journalist doing their job. The treatment of @charlotterlynch is absolutely outrageous.
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5 years
Holy hell. Just had a chat with the bloke next to me buying coffee at the little stand at Sevenoaks station. Nice man. Smartly dressed. Talked about getting over the line and into the weekend. I get on the train. Think about it a bit. It was only bloody @PaulMcCartney !!
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5 years
That’s quite something. #brexit From ⁦ @RobbieGibb ⁩ ‘s piece in the Mail...
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4 years
Prof Neil Ferguson says that the demand for tests from possibly symptomatic children in schools (97% tested negative) was not predicted by SAGE. Makes you wonder how many parents sit on SAGE...!!
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Chris Mason
2 years
NEW: Boris Johnson drops out of the Conservative leadership race. He says he got 102 nominations
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3 years
Don’t care if this isn’t true, it’s absolutely superb.
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7 months
The ban on mobiles in schools isn’t a ban. There is no ban coming, despite what the Education Secretary tweeted earlier today. All a bit painful.
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2 months
Add this one to the long list… Wait till the end…
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6 months
The absolutely wretched state of this.
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4 years
Even if you’ve had mixed feelings about these two, that’s an iconic picture. Them against the world, laughing as they go. #MeghanMarkle #harryandmeghan
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2 years
PS - no, there was no allotted time slot for the call. Hard not to rage.
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2 years
NEW: @jeremycorbyn says he will be writing to @YouGov to “ask for an explanation” over allegations that the polling firm didn’t publish results that were favourable to Labour during the 2017 election. He says it looks like the polls were rigged. Latest from 10am @LBC
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2 years
Well this is just absolutely terrific.
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1 year
NEW: Sir Richard Branson on the state of the UK’s economy: - Virgin will not invest any new money in the U.K. - Gov “desperately need” a Swiss-style deal with the EU - U.K. entrepreneurs should think about moving out to other parts of the world. More @LBC from 4.
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Tom Swarbrick
4 years
The children have found a harmonica
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5 years
Unbelievable. Look at the size of the machete that man is carrying. Imagine being a police officer confronting that WITHOUT a taser...
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999 London
5 years
#Lambeth The moment Met Police officers Taser and detain a 59 year old man wielding a machete on a Platform at #TulseHill Station this evening. Police were called just after 6.30pm. The man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Video: @xarapandapop
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2 months
That this experiment on children ever happened on the NHS, pushed by the “ #BeKind ”ers & during which those -like ⁦ @VictoriaPeckham ⁩ -who asked for clinical evidence were dismissed as “transphobes”, makes me rage. What the hell were they doing?!
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Before it gets going let’s just be really upfront that this is not about trans rights. This is about the NHS getting itself into a position where it took a punt on children’s health. It’s a story of medical malpractice.
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#Breaking Children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, NHS England has confirmed
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2 years
This has just been popped through our door. What a wonderful idea. Off to the loft to retrieve the lights…
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3 years
“but flawed”* *murdered a women.
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5 years
Arise Sir Joel Wilson. #ashes
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2 years
So either they knew your mortgage and/or pension was going to get ****ed and didn’t flag it to you. Or they hadn’t a clue what they were doing. Which would you rather???!!
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Tom Hamilton
2 years
Simon Clarke says that the markets’ response to the mini-budget was factored in as a possibility from the start. I don’t actually believe this - he just thinks it’s the less unacceptable answer - but if it’s true it’s absolutely damning.
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1 year
Aside from that astonishing exchange, this whole interview I think showed how ill-thought through this #GRRBill is - provided no evidence of humans changing biological sex - said sex was not immutable - and yet, said protections would stop “men” falsely claiming to be trans 🤷‍♂️
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teresa smith
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Amazing exchange between @TomSwarbrick1 and Scottish Green MSP Maggie Chapman on @LBC , who thinks we should ‘explore’ gender recognition for children as young as 8 and who says she doesn’t know what sex she is 😳
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6 months
“Love to the family”
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‘The spirit of the law is being absolutely trashed and I cannot wait for the Conservative government to take back control!’ @TomSwarbrick1 : 'Love to the family.’ Caller Adam is not impressed by the ruling of 'unlawful' Rwanda plan...
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@ivanlaskov @PoliceScotland No. No. No. I am not saying that “trans people are a threat”. I’m saying rapists who use their dicks to rape women, are not women. Whatever that rapist may claim for themselves. I’m saying that biological and legal reality matters.
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6 months
This is an extremely odd description of what happened to this little girl. She was kidnapped by terrorists - not “lost”. She wasn’t “found” - she was released by those same terrorists who knew where they were holding her.
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Leo Varadkar
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This is a day of enormous joy and relief for Emily Hand and her family. An innocent child who was lost has now been found and returned, and we breathe a massive sigh of relief.  Our prayers have been answered.
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2 years
Right. So for the part of the Twittersphere at the back, I’m well aware of the widely reported story of that jaunt. I reported it on my programmes. It is nevertheless newsworthy af that the PM admitted to it. Just so we’re all clear.
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1 year
If what the BBC is reporting is true, it is an absolute disgrace. By what measure, and on whose authority, is this rapist able to claim they are not a man, to the point where *THE POLICE* aren’t recording his crimes as such.
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3 years
Watched the @piersmorgan int with @Keir_Starmer . Definitely worked for the Labour leader. Humanising, direct and powerful without being oily or sickly.
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Mum and Dad, shielding together since March, vaccinated together today. Thank you @NHSEngland @BritishArmy @Comd101LogBde @UniofOxford @AstraZeneca @nadhimzahawi @katebingham2
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Tom Swarbrick
2 years
STRAP is *the* most sensitive material. Life and death stuff.
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2 years
@EssexPR @LBC Longer version here 👇 There is some nuance in it too..
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4 years
You’ve got to laugh...😂😂 #TOTWHU
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Tom Swarbrick
6 months
@giles_fraser I, like you, was there at the event this evening. Like you, I can’t quite believe what I have seen. And I suspect, like you, I can’t get the voice of that little boy crying for his mum out of my head. It is the most horrific, barbaric thing I have ever seen.
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4 years
The #Spain thing.... Another example of why it’s officially BONKERS that you’re even considering going abroad this summer. We’re having a pandemic, people #COVID ー19
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2 years
Saturday, meet Tuesday.
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3 years
I see people are “theorising” as to why the U.K. didn’t shut its borders last year. You don’t need “theories” for this one. The answer is because NERVTAG and others said border closures would be “ineffective”.
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@Mortgage_Stu @johnsweeneyroar People have been talking about it and reporting it for years. Labour have raised qs on it on numerous occasions. The point is that the PM just admitted it…
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2 years
I would be on @LBC at 4pm but I’ve just become detained on urgent business
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3 years
Place this straight into my soul. F**king fantastic!!
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5 years
Bloody hell. Carlos, sleeping rough in his tent in London just rang in. Within 3 minutes, George has called up to offer him a job. AMAZING @LBC
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4 years
💪💪💪
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3 years
Outrageous. Enraging. Entirely unnecessary. #insulatebritian are a menace. That poor woman. Via @rachaelvenables
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2 years
Hits home.
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5 years
This format doesn’t work.
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4 years
Gavin Williamson sounds like he’s doing a reading in church.
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4 years
The joke, of course, was on Basil Fawlty and his small-mindedness. This is getting insane now.
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Guardian culture
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Fawlty Towers 'Don't mention the war' episode removed from UKTV
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1 year
Completely thrilled that so many have stayed listening to my @LBC Drive show…and that we’ve added another 10% on top. It is hugely appreciated. Live from 4pm @LBC #wegoagain 🚀 🚀 🚀
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1 year
What a damning indictment of policing this picture is. My colleague ⁦ @charlotterlynch ⁩, a young woman, on her own, put in a police cell, in tears, by a force who initially accepted no responsibility *at all* for her completely ludicrous arrest.
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The NHS should, quite rightly, be sued to kingdom come for all this. They let an apparently unchallengeable ideological commitment guide their “treatment” of *children*.
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4 years
2020’s version of “Brenda from Bristol”
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@EssexPR Just had an email from a listener saying he’d like to put £500 behind the bar there.
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Angela Rippon is 78 and can do this… I’m 36 and am limping around the house cos I hurt my foot getting out of bed…
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@theousherwood You are a great, great man and will be hugely missed. It’s been a pleasure being in the trenches with you. X
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Tom Swarbrick
4 years
Just completed an extraordinary interview with @Scaramucci about @realDonaldTrump , his health, his character and his mindset. It’s astonishing. Tonight at 10 @LBC
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Tom Swarbrick
5 years
Wonder what the chat was like between @afneil and #BorisJohnson when the mics turned off!! That was one of the most intense political interviews I’ve ever seen.
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Tom Swarbrick
3 years
Heathrow Airport, 1hr ago.
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3 years
Spotted on the Tube. Don’t tell Digby!
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5 years
I don’t have one but this seems sound advice.
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Emilio Cerdio
5 years
Do not put garlic in your vagina, gynaecologist urges women
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3 years
What. A. Rollercoaster 😂
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4 years
@TVRav @NJ_Timothy I fixed a loo seat yesterday and felt like a bloody hero. HOW DO PEOPLE DO THIS!!!???
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2 years
The replies to this are great. £30k a year and buying a terraced house in London!! 😂😂😂🤬🤬🤬
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Tom Swarbrick
4 years
Not an unfair question posed by ⁦ @thetimes ⁩ leader this morning. Where is Boris Johnson? | Comment | The Times
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4 years
@piersmorgan @Sheridansmith1 You can just stand by the window and shout stuff out of it. I’ll bring the beers
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5 years
Contrary to reports, @theresa_may is kind, thoughtful and altruistic. She’s not the #maybot you think she is. Her #brexitdeal is the right way forward. And she should deliver it, even if it means her resignation. The national interest comes first. @LBC #brexit
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For context, she’s reportedly a mum at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia where a 6-year-old shot a teacher
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Tom Swarbrick
2 years
Former DPM @DLidington urges Parliament to sit across the weekend if it means being able to change sanction laws. @LBC
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Tom Swarbrick
3 years
Wow. A GP from my home town in Kent rings in. Staff can’t come in - #petrolshortage He can’t guarantee he’ll have enough to get to work So in order to keep the GP surgery open, **he’s going to sleep there**! @LBC
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4 years
Amazing how close to power they got.
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3 years
Treated myself tonight. Put the dishwasher onto “Chef” not “Eco”. A thrill.
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Tom Swarbrick
2 years
Penny for them this morning, @RishiSunak
@Haggis_UK
Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
2 years
Liz Truss can't say she wasn't warned that her plan was a fairy tale. Rishi Sunak(former Chancellor) - "We have to be honest. Borrowing your way out of inflation isn't a plan - it's a fairy tale."
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