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I'm not normally one for birthdays, but today my Guardian Politics Live blog celebrates its 2,500th edition, with more than one billion page views - Thank you to everyone who's read it, or contributed in any way - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Gove admits he only read key Exercise Cygnus pandemic planning report last week - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Tory conference prompted surge in number of people applying to join Labour, party treasurer says - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Corbyn not looking so isolated - France says it wants 'definitive conclusions' on Salisbury attack before taking action - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Michel Barnier sits down with David Davis with huge wodge of notes. Davis - with nothing - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Johnson and Miliband's opening speeches in internal market debate - Snap verdict - "It is very rare to see the case of a piece of government legislation get shredded so comprehensively by a single opposition speech" - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Badenoch urges media to 'not keep talking' about Brexit amid complaints CPTPP deal won't compensate for EU trade loss - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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New ERG chair Steve Baker says Tories should have pact with Brexit party in event of early election - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Britons have overwhelmingly negative view of Trump, with most thinking he makes world more dangerous, poll suggests - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Guidance shows Starmer right and PM wrong about government claiming care home deaths 'very unlikely' until 12 March - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Starmer says Johnson and Sunak should now both resign after being fined over Partygate - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Rayner says Labour would repeal Strikes Act within first 100 days in office - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Germans joke about way Boris Johnson has divided UK at street carnival - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Starmer confirms Labour would reverse any inheritance tax cut introduced by Tories - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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May hints gvt now realises setting up new customs arrangements after Brexit will take much longer than expected - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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IFS says it is reasonable for SNP to say rejoining EU could eventually boost government revenue by £30bn per year - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Almost 70% of people think PM wholly or partly responsible for mob harassing Starmer, poll suggests - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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70% of Britons favour closer relationship with EU, and 59% think Brexit has worsened economy, poll suggests - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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May 'weak and feeble and spineless over climate change', says Ed Miliband - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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How Nicky Morgan summed up the HMRC evidence on Brexit and customs - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Boris Johnson claims Arcuri allegations politically motivated and driven by critics opposed to Brexit - even tho story broken by pro-Brexit, Murdoch-owned Sunday Times - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Superb speech from @GuyVerhofstadt - Says Brexit 'catfight in Conservative party that got out of hand' - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Read this thread, from Economist Intelligence Unit, in full - informed, sober, plausible, and v depressing nitter.app/alexwhite1812/status/7…
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NHS Test and Trace failed to reach almost third of close contacts in most recent week, figures show - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Corbyn suggests Johnson's cocaine-using past makes deporting drug offenders to Jamaica hypocritical - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Award-winning clown writes to @guardian to say comparing Brexiter MPs to clowns is an insult - to clowns. (Makes a good case.) theguardian.com/politics/201…
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Council tax more likely to go up under Conservatives than Labour or Lib Dems, Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Ken Clarke slams Kwarteng's mini budget as like something 'usually tried in Latin American countries without success' - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Boris Johnson's press conference - Snap verdict - A more experienced PM wd never have announced closure of parts of the economy without rescue plan for losers - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Leo Varadkar says British political system denying public chance to vote for what polls say they want - staying in EU - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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That picture you never expected to see - Jeremy Corbyn on the Labour front bench - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Ivan Rogers on why a free trade deal not the same as being in the single market - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Scotland 1 of only 3 countries dvlpd world to have gender-balanced cabinet. Sturgeon was v good on reaction to this
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'Damian Green was sacked for less' - My take on the NAO's remarkable letter accusing McVey of misleading MPs re universal credit - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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How Boris Johnson used to argue, like Corbyn, that Iraq war increased terror threat - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Outgoing Met police assistant commissioner says Braverman's language on immigration 'horrific' - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Labour owes its election success not to being leftwing, but to being pro-EU, @NatCen research suggests - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Why May's comment about Corbyn making 'fake claims' about Tory manifesto is not true - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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UK gave away 'far too much for far too little' in free trade deal with Australia, says George Eustice, blaming Liz Truss - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Corbyn reveals dossier of official documents which he says proves NHS 'up for sale' in UK-US trade talks - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Labour suggests May's speech broke truce on political campaigning, @syalrajeev reports - theguardian.com/uk-news/live…
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Tories should not take comfort from Uxbridge because, overall, byelections suggest national polling accurate, says Prof Sir John Curtice - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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'Beautiful means nothing really' - Rayner defends removing beauty requirement from new planning rules for homes - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Former DWP secretary Esther McVey says it would be 'huge mistake' not to raise benefits in line with cost of living, @lisaocarroll reports -
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Johnson under pressure to explain why he went for cycle ride seven miles from No 10 - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Speaker grants emergency Commons debate on allegations about Vote Leave breaking election spending rules - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Dominic Raab refers to the “peculiar geographic entity that is the United Kingdom”. He means we're an island - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Vince Cable's speech on regulating & curbing internet giants is v, v good - best I've read on the topic - highlights here - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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'It has become very very clear that not everyone does what they’ve said they’re going to do.' - Steve Baker on learning that some Brexiters don't keep their promises - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Attorney general says it's 'absurd' to claim her pro-Cummings tweet undermined legal process - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Alan Johnson says he may've been been wrong about Corbyn who now has 'realistic chance' of winning @markbrown14 rpts theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Partygate fines show Johnson is 'proven liar', says Labour's Wes Streeting - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Corbyn v Smith on #bbcqt - Snap verdict - theguardian.com/politics/blo… - Smith had his moments, but JC exudes confidence & seemed to win audience
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Covid death toll would have been halved if lockdown introduced week earlier, says Neil Ferguson
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Labour government would 'immediately' start buying property to house rough sleepers, says Corbyn - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Anyone know if there is any precedent for a country voting to crash its currency/stock market in this way?
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UNHCR backs bid to stop Priti Patel sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, telling high court it's contrary to international law - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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"The public cannot take this scale of lying" - Campbell-Savours accuses Cameron of lying over #taxcredits
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How Boris Johnson is seen in Brussels - letter from today's Times - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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PM has not met five tests for easing lockdown, says Association of Directors of Public Health - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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UK not taking part in EU procurement schemes for ventilators and other coronavirus equipment, @JenniferMerode reports - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Love the way civil servants talk in code. This is former head of Treasury saying PM's co chief of staff is bonkers
Joe Chamberlain a protectionist imperialist who destroyed Liberalism and the union with Ireland.Astonished he still has influence.#freetrade
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PMQs - snap verdict - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Former Tory pensions minister Ros Altmann says PM's social care plan 'just about helping very well off' - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Tory MP accuses Priti Patel of misleading Commons about visa facilities for Ukrainians in Calais - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe handed over to British team at Tehran airport and leaving Iran today, Iranian state media reports - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Nicola Sturgeon says it is “completely outrageous and unacceptable” for Cameron to object to SNP affecting laws -
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NI protocol bill 'breaks treaty', trashes our international reputation' and threatens trade war, former Tory chief whip tells Truss - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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May's speech on state of politics - Snap verdict - Exceptionally poor - No self-awareness, no analytical framework - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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John Curtice says Labour's byelection performance equivalent to what was happening before its 1997 landslide victory - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Richest 20% of UK population pay 35.1% of their income in tax, compared to 37.4% for the poorest fifth, ONS says - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Electoral Commission report raises questions about accuracy of PM's evidence to Geidt inquiry into flat refurbishment (h/t @SamCoatesSky) - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Starmer's response to Johnson may have been best Commons speech as Labour leader - read it in full here - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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He is talking about trying to protect family time on Friday nights - but not this Friday, we presume - more here - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Boris Johnson's speech and Q&A - Snap verdict - Extraordinarily shambolic. Only rational explanation wd be BJ was being so useless because he wanted to lull Labour into thinking it will easily beat him in election - (I prefer cock-up theory) theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Welsh first minister says Tory/DUP deal is 'outrageous' and 'all but kills idea of fair funding' for rest of UK - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Voters getting increasingly negative in how they think Brexit will affect their finances, economy & UK overall -poll theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Removal van arrives at Downing Street - the defining image of British democracy - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Labour accuses May of orchestrating 'cover up' over Windrush scandal - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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PM floats possibility parliament could remain suspended until 14 October even if government loses supreme court case (h/t @JolyonMaugham) - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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BBC Tory leadership debate - Snap verdict - Hard to recall any leadership debate like this reflecting so badly on the party concerned - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Summary of whistleblower Christopher Wylie's remarkable evidence to MPs about Cambridge Analytica and Vote Leave - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Yvette Cooper's speech about most thoughtful UK pol reaction to Brexit vote I've heard so far - Summary here - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Corbyn's #LabConf speech - Snap verdict - theguardian.com/politics/blo… - Probably one of best speeches of his life, and his best as party leader
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Astonishing that PM does not seem to know about the 'no recourse to public funds' visa condition rule. He could start by reading this - commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
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Vote Leave 'cheating' may well have swayed EU referendum result - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Speaker condemns Sunak for announcing net zero policy changes less than 24 hours after Commons started recess - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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'Not possible to overestimate threat UK press poses to reaching deal', says one EU diplomat
UK backing away from threat to leave with no deal, say EU diplomats dlvr.it/NkzkCf
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So @NickJTimothy leaves Twitter - Presumably it became a 'hostile environment' - (h/t @GuardianHeather) - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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John Crace’s dismantling the PM’s speech - well worth a read
In which Rishi Sunak is baffled how extremism may have increased on his watch
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Clive Lewis says backing article 50 now, without further 'assurances', would not be good for his constituents - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Labour manifesto in a nutshell - good summary from @Claire_Phipps - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Leadsom refuses to deny reports key Brexit bill being delayed until autumn to avoid Commons defeat - theguardian.com/politics/blo…
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Police watchdog says it won't investigate complaint about No 10 officers ignoring possible lockdown-busting partying coz its outside its terms of reference - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Remarkable YouGov poll suggests Conservative and Unionist party already dead - A majority of its members care more about delivering Brexit than keeping Scotland and NI in UK - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Dover could lose £1bn worth of trade a week under no deal, Tory fringe told - by @GwynTopham - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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PMQs - snap verdict - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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