Comms @GoFundMeUK. Ex-No10, FCDO and DIT speechwriter. Erstwhile Telegraph, Express 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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Bercow: "Order! Responses from the Prime Minister will be heard!"
MP: "That's you Jeremy!"
*laughter erupts in Commons*
#pmqs
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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. telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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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 telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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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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Tom Watson can't resist a cheeky dab after Jeremy Corbyn's blast at Theresa May on the NHS #PMQs
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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) nitter.app/asabenn/status/6545702…
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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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Big Ben might not be bonging for Brexit, but Little Ben is making up for it #BrexitDay
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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." telegraph.co.uk/politics/201…
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Inch by inch, the Conservatives are surrendering every one of their Brexit red lines, says @Nigel_Farage telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11…
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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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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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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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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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Corbyn's aides trying to spin their way out of #Traingate like
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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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#ImACeleb's @Nigel_Farage is winning new friends in the jungle, says his former aide @LiamDeacon express.co.uk/comment/expres…
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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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After 9 months, Dominic Grieve's "I'll quit the Tories if Boris Johnson takes over" threat has collapsed
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*"Nouns, Bernie, they're nouns!" Twitter cries out* nitter.app/BernieSanders/status/7…
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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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Farage hints he could rejoin Conservatives if they are lead by someone who "believes in Britain"
#skynews
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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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Tim Martin is using his Wetherspoons just outside #cpc18 to promote his pro-WTO Brexit case
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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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ConHome's @HCH_Hill fires back at Amber Rudd after her #bbcqt dismissal, warning she may come to regret her cavalier dismissal of ordinary Conservatives
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- 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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Spotted comrade Paul Mason travelling up in first class on the 11.15 to #lab16
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Polly Toynbee reveals Labour MP told her that they "never went to the council estates during the campaign as it was too scary" #lab16
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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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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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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 amazon.co.uk/dp/1785905198/r…
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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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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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"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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Maybe Farage's row with Brendan Cox is his attempt to promote the Friends of #JoCox single - which you can buy here itunes.apple.com/gb/album/yo…
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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 telegraph.co.uk/news/politic…
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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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