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Chief political commentator, The Times
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“After months of touring the UK in the run up to our hugely successful local election campaign I will resume travelling the country next week as Reform moves to the next stage.”
“Meanwhile I am having my first overseas break for 3 years, the jungle excepted.”
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Why would Jonathan Powell and Peter Mandelson be involved in writing a speech on domestic policy?
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You’re not wrong but why is it ridiculous? It’s nothing to do with McSweeney being Irish!
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“There must be” — there aren’t!
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You can be “interested in UK history” without knowing passages of the Rivers of Blood speech verbatim
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He’s not quite donating yet but it’s interesting they’re bigging up Bamford’s tech so much…
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Here’s how they saw it at the time… (from Left Out)
Plan A according to Gavin Shuker was “stay and fight”, Plan B became… whatever Change UK was
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The splitters felt he talked like a splitter while never having the cojones to actually take his arguments to their logical conclusion. He wasn’t in the group, but his mates were, and it radicalised them against Chris Leslie in particular.
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I mean… yeah?
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Birthday Club – WhatsApp for Corbynsceptic Labour MPs – crucible of the Independent Group/Change UK split. Mike Gapes announced he would quit (several months before the fact) in it. And the extreme hatred some splitters exhibited towards Wes Streeting in there put a low ceiling on their numbers...
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I think you’re right and certainly something for me and my co-author to reflect on (I won’t take the coward’s way out of complaining Penguin excised the 1,500 words we wrote about MM and Peter Kellner poring over cross-tabs in that leadership election)… 1/2
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He is though. Sorry you don’t want to read it but it’s true.
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Give me a specific example of where and what context, challenge or insight
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Probably the bits where I quote Nigel Farage
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Plenty. You knew absolutely everything in it already? Is that what you’re saying?
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Fair enough — just asked for it to be redrafted so it just reads: “Nigel Farage is bad.”
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Yes pal 👍🏻 think it’s good.
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Don’t think I’ve ever read a press release that includes someone calling the leader of the organisation that issued it a “knobhead”
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It’s a report on a series of things that happened and some other things that a politician said.
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Yeah it’s true almost everywhere mate. Look at the 2024 results. And the current polling.
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What would that look like?