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Have your Reform bosses blocked you again @ZiaYusufUK ?
We are pleased to announce that Sian Astley is Reform UK’s candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester. 🇬🇧
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Sorry @Steven_Woolfe that is not possible as your membership request was rejected last year.
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If I'm voting for you, what do you believe in?
I just want to be clear what Labour's policy is?
Do you want to leave or remain?
Car crash interview from Labour's Shadow Brexit Sec as he can't answer simple questions on Labour's Brexit policy - more confusion, more delay
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No mention from @SkyNews that Faiza Shaheen is a Labour activist & a Labour General Election candidate in a key target seat in 2019?
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Angela Rayner claims Labour "will respect the result of the referendum".......by cancelling it and holding another one 🤷♀️
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.@DominicRaab on #Marr:
"People should be here for five years before they can claim benefits and you contrast that with the offer from Labour of open door immigration....which would double the overall level of immigration and I think that is a very clear choice for voters."
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Keir Starmer denied it, but his own government has admitted there is damning analysis of their decision to cut Winter Fuel Payments for 10 million pensioners that they refuse to publish.
They must immediately come clean.
thesun.co.uk/money/30518050/…
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Wow. Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary this afternoon said a full national lockdown lasting for weeks would be “disastrous for society”
“The question is what measures can be taken now....without resorting to that full lockdown”
Hrs later Keir Starmer calls for a full lockdown
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31 January 2020: Got Brexit done
24 December 2020: Got the trade deal done
Promises delivered💪🇬🇧
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Labour's Brexit policy is so confused, their Shadow Foreign Sec can't even remember if they want people to vote leave or remain in their 2nd referendum
🤦♀️"I would hope the public would decide to leave....sorry to remain"
Labour = 2 more referendums, more confusion, more delay
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“If anyone doesn’t hate Brexit, even if you voted for it, there’s something WRONG with YOU”
Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet member touring TV studios claiming Labour will abide by result of a 2nd referendum (after ignoring 1st) - but here’s what they really think
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Starmer talks about the last time Labour was in office...
The British people remember.
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A truly devastating indictment
Labour MP of 14 yrs says Corbyn:
💥 "completely unfit to lead our country"
💥 "economic policies would make our country worse"
💥 "put businesses & jobs at risk"
💥 "Brexit policy is a complete fantasy"
💥 "always picks our country's enemies"
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Number 10: We are happy to announce that the Supreme Leader's investigation is complete and no one is at fault.
Please applaud.
Breaking:
Sounds like Sir Keir Starmer's inquiry into Downing Street briefings against Wes Streeting - which was launched last night - is already over
'The PM gathered his senior team this morning. The PM reiterated that briefings against cabinet ministers are completely unacceptable, which has always been his position.
'***The Prime Minister said he had been assured that no number 10 staff briefed against ministers***'
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🚨 REMINDER: Keir Starmer doesn't think Shamima Begum should have been stripped of her citizenship and wants her brought back to Britain
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.@patel4witham "@Conservatives will get Brexit done, end free movement and introduce an Australian-style points system.
We'll reduce immigration overall while being more open and flexible to the highly skilled people we need, such as scientists & doctors" dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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.@patel4witham outlines our plans to introduce a new fast-track NHS visa for doctors and nurses so we can attract the best skilled talent from around the world into our NHS, as part of our plans for a points-based immigration system
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No need to edit this one
Watch another absolute car crash of an interview, this time from Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary 👇
Piers and Susanna question Shadow Foreign Secretary, Emily Thornberry over Labour's plans to deliver a new Brexit deal before giving the public a confirmatory vote.
#GMB
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.@BorisJohnson ✍️ in @Daily_Express:
"We are leaving in 25 days...with a deal if the EU is willing.
But they should be under no illusions...
There will be no more dither. No more delay.
On October 31 we are going to get Brexit done."
express.co.uk/news/politics/…
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Jeremy Hunt: "I guarantee this – at the next election people will remember that this is a Chancellor who went back on her word to pensioners and went back on her word not to increase taxes."
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Hang that
Rachel Reeves to replace No 11 paintings with art of or by women dlvr.it/TDPQBp
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.@jeremycorbyn the people decided their future in 2016 - they voted to leave the EU. Why don’t you respect the result of the referendum?
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We'll #GetBrexitDone so we can move on & in 1st 100 days we'll:
✂️ Cut taxes for workers
🏥 Enshrine in law our £34 billion pr yr extra for NHS
👩🎓Legislate for funding increase to our schools
⚖️ Change law to end automatic release of serious offenders
thesun.co.uk/news/10485733/b…
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.@BorisJohnson is the clear winner in tonight's #LeadersDebate
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He wanted to stay in the European Medicines Agency and said so....
Starmer: “I’ve never said that” 🤔🤔🤔
Amnesia or just plain fibbing, watch and decide👇
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ⓘ 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴
"The Labour Party I lead won't tolerate anti-Semitism, nor will it tolerate the argument that there isn't really anti-Semitism": Sir Keir Starmer explains his decision to suspend Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party.
@NickFerrariLBC | @Keir_Starmer
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💥Labour MP of 14 years Ian Austin says Jeremy Corbyn is "unfit to lead" and that people should vote @Conservatives 💥
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Today the SNP voted for No Deal
Another must watch from @michaelgove 👇 "Inconsistent, incoherent, the SNP are prisoners of a separatist ideology which puts their narrow nationalism ahead of our national interest"
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.@patel4witham on #Marr:
"Tomorrow you will see a Queen's Speech. Being announced: 22 new bills working on the people's priorities."
By getting Brexit done, we'll end the uncertainty and get on with an ambitious programme to build a brighter future for everyone in this country
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.@KemiBadenoch has written to the Cabinet Secretary to raise serious concerns over a false statement issued by civil servants.
On 17 April, the Office for Equality and Opportunity claimed Bridget Phillipson always backed single-sex spaces based on biological sex — yet just last year, she said trans women with penises should access female toilets.
The record speaks for itself 👇
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.@BorisJohnson "If there is a @Conservatives majority on Friday 13th, we will go forward and #GetBrexitDone on 31 January. Next year will be a year of investment and growth" 💪🇬🇧 dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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What will Corbyn nationalise next?
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Nandos
24,951 votes • Final results
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Our deal meant we left the EU on 31 January 2020, fulfilling the mandate of the referendum after Labour and Sir Keir Starmer sided with Brussels to frustrate the democratic will of the British people
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.@Conservatives will ensure every family in England will be, on average, 15 minutes from a great football pitch
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🚨 New independent job stats out 🚨
💷 Wages UP 4% - fastest wage growth in over 11 yrs
👨💼👩💻 Record number of people working FULL-TIME
📉 Long-term unemployment more than HALVED in last 5 yrs
👩🔬Female employment rate at RECORD HIGH
bbc.co.uk/news/business-4964…
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Hi Emily,
We're not just "a bolt on to Europe"
We're the 5th largest economy in the world
If you believe in Britain and a bright future for our country, #voteConservative
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WATCH: Last week at PMQs Keir Starmer arrogantly dismissed @KemiBadenoch saying the Goverment had put down an amendment to their own Schools Bill, u-turning on their plans to CUT teachers’ pay. He was LYING. There is no amendment. Will he apologise to the House?
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Labour’s position on Brexit is very clear 🤔
Sophy Ridge: “Do you want to stay in or leave?”
Barry Gardiner: “Yes”
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🚨Cat well and truly out of bag
Peter Dowd, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, admits “the British people will pay” when asked who will foot the bill for Labour’s reckless borrowing spree
It’s working people who always pay the price when Labour wreck the economy
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.@theresa_may "I will not overturn the result of the referendum, nor will I break up my country"
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🚨New independent stat 🚨
📉Proportion of people working in low paid jobs has fallen to a RECORD LOW
💷Coincides with the @Conservatives introduction of the National Living Wage - which we'll be increasing again
Helping families with the cost of living
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In the last resort, if Britain were under attack, would Corbyn use our nuclear deterrent?
Labour's Shadow Foreign Sec: "Who knows?"
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Yet another example of why Corbyn cannot be trusted with our nation's security
He consistently backs our enemies while shunning our allies
dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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Jeremy Hunt: “It’s one of the oldest tricks in the book to try to blame your predecessor for difficult decisions you have to take.
“It’s an even older one to cover up what you’re planning to do before an election to get elected.”
on.ft.com/3YAepYp
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There have been some enquiries about the veracity of Keir Starmer’s interview this morning where he was unable to explain Labour’s plan to delay Brexit.
Believe it or not, this car crash interview did really take place
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'You get a referendum and in that referendum, you get the choice between the best deal that can be secured, and we would hope to do that in a very short period of time, or remain.'
@susannareid100 quizzes @Keir_Starmer about Labour's Brexit policy
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Labour this morning:
Corbyn on #Ridge
▪️Terrorists should "not necessarily" serve full sentences
▪️Isis fighters should return simply "to face questioning"
Shadow Attorney General on #Marr
▪️ No new prisons places
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“Idea of Corbyn as PM truly frightening”
Another damning indictment from a former Labour MP
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.@BorisJohnson "Labour normally ends their Government with an economic crisis, these guys would start with one"
Don't let it happen, #voteConservative express.co.uk/news/politics/…
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"I'm afraid involves 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐱 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬"
Devastating verdict from the IFS on true #costofCorbyn
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Rachel Reeves’ story doesn’t stand up.
This latest revelation casts serious doubt on her claim not to have known about the need for a licence to rent out her second home.
It’s time for a full investigation.
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.@michaelgove ✍️ @thetimes: In the difficult days ahead I hope all MPs recognise that we are servants of the people, they have spoken, and we must keep faith with their democratic verdict.
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Labour's GB Energy is nothing but a blackhole of taxpayer money - £8.3bn being put in with no promise of any return, and all whilst 10 million pensioners have their Winter Fuel Payments stripped from them.
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They've stumbled across Labour's spending plans #costofCorbyn
Black hole 'so big it should not exist' has been discovered news.sky.com/story/black-hol…
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Totally unprecedented for the government to provide a redacted statement to the Opposition, and made even worse by the fact that some in the media got hold of those redacted lines before the PM even stood up in the Commons...
Keir Starmer has serious questions to answer.
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Sir Keir Starmer's remarkable record of calling for things the government is already doing continues - today he calls for the eviction ban to be extended - something the government did last week bbc.co.uk/news/business-5558…
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.@BorisJohnson ‘We were elected with a massive majority in 2019 to change this country for the better, this is the moment not to be deterred, not to slow down, but to speed up, and that’s what we’re going to do’ #Marr #CPC20
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His own Shadow Health Secretary thinks it
Former Labour MPs think it
And Labour candidates think it in private
Jeremy Corbyn is unfit to lead our great nation
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Remember, when they told you only companies and the rich would pay, they were lying
Every taxpayer would be hammered with a £2,400 bill under Labour's plans
You simply can't trust Corbyn with our economy #costofCorbyn
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🚨 New job stats 🚨
💷 Wages UP 3.4%, rising over 2% faster than prices
⬆️ Number of people in FULL-TIME work at record HIGH
📉 Unemployment rate at a historic low
👩🔬Female employment rate at record HIGH
⬇️ Long-term unemployment more than HALVED
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.@BorisJohnson I want to see our country united and levelled-up, through
🚆Better infrastructure
👩🎓Better education
📡Better technology
We can unleash the potential of the UK if we can get Brexit done. That's what I want to do
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Labour are focused on playing political games.
Conservatives are focused on delivering on the people's priorities.
#VoteConservative 🗳
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We'll make sure life means life for child killers telegraph.co.uk/politics/201…
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🚨Jobs stats just out🚨
📉UK unemployment rate FALLS to 3.8%
⬆️ Number of people in FULL-TIME work hits RECORD HIGH
💷 Wages UP 3.6%
This is Conservative govt in action. More people with the security of a job, able to provide for themselves & their families #voteConservative
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This morning @RichardBurgon failed 23 times to say what Labour’s plan for Brexit would be.
Given they’re calling for a General Election you think they’d know what their plan would be but yet again they’re playing politics instead of acting in the national interest
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Jeremy Corbyn’s been asking for an election for years - but now he won’t vote for one.
We don’t want an election. But if Corbyn’s Surrender Bill passes, it will be the only way to prevent years of delay and division.
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🚨 BREAKING: Darren Jones MP has admitted Labours political choices will make working people worse off
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Sir Keir fails 8 times to rule out breaking up our union.
Labour's leader may have changed, but Sir Keir is still clinging on to the same lefty policies of Jeremy Corbyn.
Sir Keir refuses to take a position on the most important issues facing our country
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Fair point @piersmorgan. Is this version better?
You doctored the end of the clip you originally put out, to make it look like @Keir_Starmer had no answer to my question. In fact he answered immediately. You could have had plenty of fun with that interview anyway - why fake it?
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It's laughable that @jeremycorbyn says he's "champing at the bit" for an election when he's blocked an election twice
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Shocked I tell you, shocked
NEW: Labour haven't revealed the full cost of their broadband plans. Latest @FactCheck:
channel4.com/news/factcheck/…
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Corbyn's choice for Home Secretary called for MI5 to be disbanded
You can't trust Labour to keep us safe #BBCDebate
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This is total nonsense.
Boris Johnson was not even an MP for 62% of the votes listed
On top of that the methodology used omits the vote on Net Zero by 2050 - spearhead by @Conservatives
Boris Johnson won’t take radical action on the climate emergency.
Just look at his voting record.
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Corbyn says Labour will put "credible Leave deal" on the table
But lst night, his Shad Cabinet ally let mask slip
Asked why some Labour leaflets say Labour's position is to Remain in EU, she said "But it's still our policy"
Labour told you they'd respect the referendum 🤥
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Starmer relaunch pre-brief: I will be as bold as Clement Attlee
Actual speech: Announces start-up loans - a scheme launched by George Osborne in 2012
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.@sajidjavid “Under a majority Conservative government, national insurance, income tax and VAT Will. Not. Rise
🔒 Income tax
🔒 National Insurance
🔒 VAT
Contrast that to Corbyn’s plans that would mean a £2,400 bill for every taxpayer
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"Would you be happy to continue with free movement?"
"so you would be in favour of free movement?"
Labour's Shadow Employment spokesman refuses SEVEN times to answer if Labour will continue freedom of movement
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.@BrandonLewis on @RidgeOnSunday:
"We are going to restrict benefits [to EU migrants] so that when they come over from the EU they will have to wait....five years before they can get access to benefits so it's a much fairer system for everybody."
#Ridge
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Labour's Shadow Health Secretary saying what many Labour candidates think in private - Corbyn's not up to the job order-order.com/2019/12/10/a…
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.@BorisJohnson We want next yr to be a great yr for our country
🏥 Investing more in NHS frontline
👮♂️Reducing violent crime with 20,000 more police
👩🎓Investing in every one of our schools
🇬🇧Delivering a deal to take us out of the EU
Taking Britain forward to a brighter future
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Maybe try reading your own website?
mirror.co.uk/money/awful-apr…
I spend a fair bit of time “out there”. I’ve never heard anyone other than Kemi Badenoch call it “Awful April” #pmqs
Community note
Mikey Smith writes for the Daily Mirror.
His own paper used the term "Awful April" as a headline just yesterday
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Like the lawyer he is Starmer followed the brief and stood by Corbyn’s side for years no matter what.
Today it’s a different brief but highlights the same thing - he doesn’t do what’s right, he does what’s politically convenient.
The public won’t forget he propped Corbyn up.
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It took Corbyn over a month to U-turn on his student debt pledge in 2017 and admit Labour wouldn’t write them off
This time, it took less than two HOURS for a Shadow Treasury Minister to U-turn on McDonnell’s student debt suggestion - you really can’t trust a word Labour say
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Would no one pay for her train ticket or has she stayed behind to run the country?
CONFIRMED: Sue Gray is skipping Labour conference. [As first reported by @ShippersUnbound.]
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"You'll be with us in Government"
Labour would bring the militant RMT union, behind a 27 day Xmas strike, into government
Corbyn and his union baron chums would mean more strikes and more misery and disruption for millions across the country
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.@BorisJohnson on @RidgeOnSunday:
"If we vote for the Conservatives now, vote for this Government, we have the guarantee that we have an oven ready deal, ready to go as soon as Parliament comes back on December the 13th and we can get it done."
#Ridge
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🗣 “Sex has always meant biological sex.”
🔵 @KemiBadenoch welcomes today's Supreme Court’s ruling and calls for clearer laws to protect women’s rights. 👇
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.@scullyp: It beggars belief Corbyn rejected the deal before he’d even read it.
It shows he has no intention of keeping his promises to respect the referendum, and would only inflict yet more dither and pointless delay on the country.
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.@BorisJohnson Keir Starmer should talk to his own Labour Mayor of London, who is putting up his share of council tax by 10%
I can tell him the previous Conservative Mayor of London cut council tax by 20% #pmqs
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.@MichaelGove 🗣 "We want the best possible trading relationship with the EU. But in pursuit of a deal, we will not trade away our sovereignty." 🇬🇧
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.@BorisJohnson Sir Keir Starmer stood silent when the former leader of the Labour Party parroted Kremlin lines on the Salisbury attack #pmqs
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Corbyn's plans to rip up strike laws would let his union baron chums strike at will, causing misery and disruption for millions #costofCorbyn thesun.co.uk/news/10293918/j…
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