Asa Bennett
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Assistant Editor @Daily_Express . Ex-No10, FCDO and DIT speechwriter. Erstwhile Telegraph and HuffPost hack.
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Trump's Hamilton spat is a distraction, as
@robfordmancs
notes, but it's working. Overshadowed Trump University in US as soon as he tweeted
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Been sent this spectacularly timed shot of a Brexit bus zooming onwards despite the road ahead being closed
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Barnier tells French radio: "No-one has been able to show me any added value in Brexit, not even
@Nigel_Farage
, when I met him in my office at his request and I asked him."
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A look at the last 4 hours on Google shows how fast Trump forced his Hamilton spat to the top of the agenda instead of Trump U
@robfordmancs
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After more than five years at
@Telegraph
, I'm delighted to be joining
@tradegovuk
as chief speechwriter from mid-October.
Looking forward to joining
@trussliz
and her team next month to help fly the flag for Global Britain
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"We Eurosceptics have fought for years to live in a free country", write
@SteveBakerHW
and his ERG deputy Mark Francois for
@Telegraph
. "Woe betide any MP who tries to stop that"
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Bernard Jenkin tells
@adamboultonSKY
Switzerland is doing "fine" out of the EU, insisting you "can pretty well drive through" its borders
AB: "Not if you're a lorry driver"
BJ: "There are plenty of areas you can"
AB shuts him down by suggesting he goes and asks a lorry driver
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Bemused by Soubry hectoring Gove for "HIS CUTS" to legal aid, when she consistently voted for them...
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Broadcaster
@Nigel_Farage
defiant after police visit over his trips out amid coronavirus lockdown to make local reports on immigration
The fact is that more than 1,000 illegal immigrants have passed through Dover already this year and there has been almost no public debate about this until I started filming.
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Maverick outsider Figel Narage enters the Ukip leadership race
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"The plan was to do it without publicity", says Grant Shapps, who has been talking to Radio 5, The Times, Bloomberg, BBC, ITV & Sky about it
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Brexiteers to be recruited and departments moved to regions in huge Whitehall shake-up,
@Telegraph
reports
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Rees-Mogg's Brexit solution to the Irish border question "We simply say (to the EU) 'there is no border, we are not patrolling it. You can do what you like'"
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UK signs its first post-Brexit trade deal with Japan 🇯🇵🇬🇧
Boasts "additional benefits" beyond what EU had agreed in its deal "tailored to the UK economy"
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"If we don't leave by 31 October, this country will explode" Mark Francois tells
#politicslive
@AyoCaesar
's response:
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Here's a gif of Boris Johnson knocking over that child during while playing rugby (from PA)
http://t.co/ueaiCuim0t
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Brexit Party chairman
@TiceRichard
tells reporters he met "very senior people" at the WTO in Geneva who "recommended we move forward with the EU towards using an Article 24 arrangement"
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Swinson has written to Jeremy Corbyn asking him to back a vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson
Here is her letter:
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Our fishermen are being sold down the river by this Remainer-rife Government, writes
@Nigel_Farage
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Martin Howe of
@lawyers4britain
says the Benn Act is a "constitutionally illegitimate law passed by a Rump Parliament", adding that Boris Johnson is "fully entitled to subvert and defy the act by any means possible"
#CPC19
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College Green 🔥⚔
Stop Brexit Guy: "You just called me a wanker"
Damian Green: "I think that was analysis. Political analysis. Which I stand by"
#IsItOk
for a Member of Parliament to call a member of the public a w**ker?
@DamianGreen
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"Young man from Whitehall" caused "total amazement" on EU side by taking apart their €100bn Brexit bill demand,
@pmdfoster
reports
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Cutting view from reader on May's Brexit deal vote postponement: "She's cancelled a vote that she said couldn't be cancelled to give her time to change a deal that she said can't be changed."
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Inch by inch, the Conservatives are surrendering every one of their Brexit red lines, says
@Nigel_Farage
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Marking my last day
@Telegraph
, been a pleasure to work with
@TeleComment
crew over the years - thanks to
@harrydq
,
@jameskirkup
,
@TWWelsh
,
@lukemcgee
,
@LFDodds
,
@HJ_Hodges
,
@lucydenyer
,
@Sherelle_E_J
,
@Madz_Grant
among others
#Bennexit
After more than five years at
@Telegraph
, I'm delighted to be joining
@tradegovuk
as chief speechwriter from mid-October.
Looking forward to joining
@trussliz
and her team next month to help fly the flag for Global Britain
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"Yes, a violin was played, but I don't think I was actually involved in it"
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Senior Tory Brexiteer tells me if May "doesn't change tack, there’s going to be an ultimatum. There’ll be a leadership election. If she doesn’t change [her Brexit approach] by next week, then there’ll be a challenge"
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Nigel Farage's biggest win yet as Brexit Party chief: forcing Adonis to betray Remainers by suggesting he may actually accept Brexit
This was a really, really, really, really bad move by Andrew Adonis.
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All those defending May's no confidence victory by pointing out she didn't have anything like Corbyn's 172-40 defeat might want to remember that he did go on to win a vote among party membership
Are they sure she'd win one?
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Brexiteers are putting Brussels on notice as talks ramp up
A Letter from Mark Francois, Chairman of the ERG to Michel Barnier.
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How times change.
Feb 2018: May says "a “new comprehensive …customs union”... would mean that we could not do our own trade deals and would actually betray the vote of the British people."
Now....
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ERG chiefs Baker and Francois lament the Letwin amendment "farce" and "Remain chicanery", and use football analogy to deplore John Bercow's MV4 rejection today: 'You cannot play a fair game if the other team has twelve players – and is now captained by the referee"
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"The time has come to remove Hancock. This must happen quickly", writes
@Nigel_Farage
, calling for a tough outsider who can "get things done" to replace him as health secretary
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David Lammy finds Nazi Brexit comparisons "disingenuous and absurd"...unless the person making them is David Lammy 😏
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Boris Johnson tells Tory hustings he needs to talk up no deal so Brussels "look deeply into our eyes and think 'my goodness they are really going to do it" " and move to stop it by giving UK the better deal he wants
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"No-one really thought this through properly before the PM announced there would be 70 papers [advising on what to do to prepare for no deal]," an official told the
@Telegraph
. "We are being told we have to do several just so the total adds up to 70"
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Lindsay Hoyle already showing how different a Speaker he is to Bercow by selecting NO amendments to the Brexit deal bill
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At this rate, it wouldn't be a surprise if
@LordBuckethead
runs May close in Maidenhead
#GE2017
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How good is TIG's
#EUElection2019
candidate vetting? 🤔
Intrigued to find one of CUK's MEP hopefuls thinks Chuka Umunna is a "fame seeker", and not a "real" politician
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Labour defend coming 4th in Sleaford by-election: "Some people said we were going to come fifth, we didn't come fifth."
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Scottish judges say prorogation was unlawful
English/Welsh judges said prorogation was lawful
Supreme Court to settle this next week
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Gove trying to decide if a bad job is better than no job
BREAKING
Michael Gove has been offered the job of Brexit Secretary, sources confirm.
But he's still wrestling with whether he will stay on at all in the wake of Raab's resignation. Which will it be?
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After 9 months, Dominic Grieve's "I'll quit the Tories if Boris Johnson takes over" threat has collapsed
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Senior Tory Eurosceptic tells me: "Now is the time to act. People died to save our country’s freedoms - as we saw recently on Remembrance Day. Putting in a letter now hardly requires courage of the same order or magnitude. Any more delay could split and wreck the party."
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What Huawei to go...
The Prime Minister has this evening asked Gavin Williamson to leave the Government,
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Steve Baker decides no job is better than a bad job
With regret, I have turned down a ministerial job.
I cannot repeat my experience of powerlessness as a junior
@DExEUgov
minister with the work done in
@cabinetofficeuk
.
I have total confidence in
@BorisJohnson
to take us out of the EU by 31 Oct.
Disaster awaits otherwise.
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"It is about a red, white and blue Brexit that is the right Brexit, the right deal for Britain," Theresa May adds
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The only way Twitter could be more excited today is if Theresa May appointed a minister for Pokemon Go
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Ann Widdecombe MEP giving the EU both barrels: "It doesn't matter which language you use, we are leaving and we are pleased to be going. "We're off!"
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Olly Robbins's immediate reaction after
@JWhittingdale
's suggested that he should "swap places" with Raab, as he is in fact the real Brexit Sec. Seems rather tickled
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The moment the UK stopped being a member of the EU, as marked in Parliament Square
#BrexitDay
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Farage responds to
@MrBrendanCox
on LBC - "He would know more about extremists than me, wouldn't he?" cites his support for
@hopenothate
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Corbyn reveals he is a proud Welshwoman
#Labourreshuffle
Welcome
@JoStevensLabour
to the position of Shadow Welsh Secretary - as a proud Welshwoman I know the dedication with which she’ll serve
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As we await prospect of Tory MPs quitting for a new party, here's our report of a young Anna Soubry joining others in leaving the Tories for a new party back in 1981
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Boris Johnson moves to allay doubts he is not serious about Brexit by October 31 in latest
@Telegraph
column, declaring the deadline his "single great promise".
"We are going to come out of the EU on October 31. We can, we must and we will."
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@Telegraph
@Nigel_Farage
@vincecable
@christopherhope
- Farage calls the British Government "impotent"
- Cable says he expects the first thing Lib Dem MEPs to do is to "turn up"
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Who should be the next Tory Prime Minister?
@Telegraph
thinks it is time to back Boris, aka Mr Brexit
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Letwin amendment victory has sent Remainers WILD in Parliament Square
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@LFDodds
Facebook's new comms chief Nick Clegg might have an awkward first day at the office
"I actually find the messianic Californian new-worldy-touchy-feely culture of Facebook a little grating. Nor am I sure that companies such as Facebook really pay all the tax they could"
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Add an extra name to the known Tory no-confidence-in-May letter writers - Philip Hollobone tells local radio: "My letter went in 4 months ago on the day that David Davis resigned. The deal that she is presenting is not Brexit."
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Sparks on Sky just now
Keir Starmer: "I really don't think you can criticise the opposition..."
"I can and I'm going to!" replies
@KayBurley
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@ChukaUmunna
First it was Tom Watson, then meme Corbyn, now
@ChukaUmunna
joins in the political dabbers
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@Telegraph
Doubt Ukip will welcome Gavin Barwell as Theresa May's new chief of staff given he called Nigel Farage "a bigot who despises modern Britain"
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Friends, Romans, Twitter, lend me your ears!🎺
Thrilled to have written my first book, inspired by Latin fans like the new PM, on what we can learn from Roman politics (h/t
@bobscartoons
for fab 📖 cover).
You can order Romanifesto - out in October - here
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Mark Francois vs Will Self pre-broadcast on
#PoliticsLive
WS "Well Mark, what's in your codpiece?
MF: "That's none of your business"
WS: "Are you saying that because you've got a small penis?"
MF: "As a matter of fact mate, no quite the opposite, but what did you say that for?"
Rayleigh and Wickford MP Mark Francois has told
@BenFryer
and
@sonwatson
he was put off prior to his interview on
@daily_politics
after author Will Self made a reference to his manhood.
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@Nigel_Farage
Barnier can't seriously be struggling for a point to Brexit, as he warned only last week that he feared UK was trying to have "a huge competitive edge” over EU
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Jacob Rees-Mogg did not appreciate MPs trying to correct him in referring to 🇬🇧 as the Union Jack, as he replies that those insisting it is the Union Flag are "more pedantic than they are wise"
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Inspired by Matt's terrific Truss thread, here's Michael Portillo as Carex hand sanitizers
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"that famous lacquered black front door...with a ten on it"
Sky's Dermot Murnaghan filling time like a champ as we await May's Brexit statement
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Tony Blair finds Jeremy Corbyn is now proud of his accomplishments as PM
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Sir John Curtice dismissive of the Berxit Party's prospects of taking Labour seats: "What's the evidence that Nigel Farage can win a seat anywhere in Labour territory? Please tell me - I do not know where it exists.""
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"Do or die", it turns out, wasn't a promise to do Brexit by October 31 but an expression of enthusiasm
Buckland on the “do or die” / “die in a ditch” language - which didn’t turn to reality - said the PM was “reflecting the frustration felt by millions of people” that Brexit keeps being delayed
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Tory MPs are gathering around Boris Johnson so he can sign their copies of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill
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Boris Johnson takes down a Japanese schoolboy during a rugby game
http://t.co/cYRr8ViLJV
http://t.co/bX0AM7uxV6
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Wonder why the party leader on 3% in the polls wants to be on the same stage as the one on 34%? 🤔
#EuropeanElections2019
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Brexiteer backbenchers are complaining to 1922 chief Graham Brady about
@Arron_banks
being blocked. "This is serious," one Tory MP tells me. "We cannot allow the party to reject applications on this basis as it makes no sense"
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