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I RT what amuses or interests me inc. criticism. RT is not an endorsement. I mute or block trolls.

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@adamboultonTABB
Adam Boulton
4 years
Just a reminder. Dominic Cummings is unelected, he is not a member of the Conservative Party, he passed no civil service test. He owes his position of power entirely to the patronage of @BorisJohnson
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Adam Boulton
2 years
Personally I don’t accept that « people in Downing Street «  worked exceptionally hard compared to the millions of essential workers and others who worked throughout the pandemic.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Anyone who refers to Media "scum" on my Tweet feed will be blocked. It is not an acceptable way to refer to anyone.
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Adam Boulton
5 years
You could try emigrating
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Many of those now advocating an early lifting of the lock are the same as the people who said #coronavirus was nothing to worry about in the first place.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
There are people of distinction in #TheLords (some friends of mine) but patronage on this scale (potential earnings & a say lawmaking) is corruption which shames UK. #AbolishtheLords .
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Adam Boulton
2 years
There is just a hint in the air that the wheels may be falling off the B Johnson juggernaut
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Adam Boulton
2 years
Worst. Prime Minister. Ever. @BorisJohnson
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Adam Boulton
1 year
Seems to me @GaryLineker is entitled to say what he likes @Twitter - he’s not a political reporter. Just like the frequently voiced views of BBC actors.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
. @BorisJohnson tells the Leader of the Opposition its's time to decide whether he supports the government. The clue is in the title.
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Adam Boulton
2 years
Note @BorisJohnson didn’t win the biggest majority since Thatcher, Tony Blair did
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Adam Boulton
4 years
so Advisors now give Press Conferences.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
This is an unfortunate time for the government to start issuing instructions to everyone
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Adam Boulton
4 years
No 10 is trying to control the media, and everyone in our democracy should be afraid
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Adam Boulton
3 years
Consideration for others.
@JuliaHB1
Julia Hartley-Brewer
3 years
@adamboultonSKY @brucerisk Why are you wearing a face mask while walking on a public street in the open air? 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Adam Boulton
2 years
Does @SadiqKhan have the power to fire The Met Commissioner, I seem to remember a previous mayor did similar?
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Adam Boulton
2 years
After 12 years of Conservatives in power @BorisJohnson blaming @UKLabour for lack of nuclear energy policy
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Adam Boulton
4 years
PS @GuidoFawkes I have been in the Westminster Lobby for over thirty years (since before you wer born) and am a former Lobby Chairman. I have never heard of an "inner lobby". This takes blatant attempts to divide and rule to a new level. So please don't lie.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
IMHO opinion we should never have done this. It is a mistake. We should treat you and your fellow bullies with the contempt you merit.
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Tom Harwood
4 years
Big props to @SkyNews for changing their description of the Momentum activist they interviewed for a package today It's good to see the @GuidoFawkes transparency campaign is working. Hopefully it won't be too long before other broadcasters follow suit...
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Adam Boulton
2 years
Diary of a spiteful exit: 1/ sack Gove 2/ appoint pointless new cabinet 3/ Campaign against Sunak 4/ Suspend Ellwood. 5/ Resignation honours to come. Not a gentleman but we knew that.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
I’m confused? What when where how?
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Adam Boulton
5 years
And moving our funds to Dublin.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
ISC #RussiaReport in effect puts UK Security services and Cameron, May & Johnson in the dock for turning a blind eye to Russian interference from 2014 on.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Was anything said in @BBCPanorama untrue? I haven’t heard any rebuttal. Presumably NHS workers are still “heroes” even if they aren’t Tories.
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Andrew Griffith MP
4 years
The taxpayer-funded BBC has real questions to answer about its role here. It is not to play unbalanced left-wing party politics during a national crisis.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
The personal bravado displayed by Boris Johnson and team concerning their health and #coronavirusuk has not served them well.
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Adam Boulton
2 years
Bercow served as MP for 23 years and Speaker for 9, elected to both multiple times. By the conventions of public life that should make him eligible for a Parliamentary pass and a peerage, whatever his behaviour - just look at the others enjoying these perks.
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Adam Boulton
5 years
Pathetic boycott of a national news broadcaster.
@bendepear
Ben de Pear
5 years
For only 2nd time in 40 years at @Conservatives conference a leader who is also PM is not doing a @Channel4News interview on a day they release details of their proposed #Brexit deal. Millions of c4 TV & digital viewers will be denied @BorisJohnson being scrutinised by @krishgm
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Adam Boulton
3 years
New Twist: EU leaders make the case for Brexit.
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Adam Boulton
5 years
🍒Piers. Darroch did not insult Trump, he gave a private opinion on him. Trump doesn’t care about the UK national interest, why should he? His unsurprising reaction bears out some of Darroch’s analysis.
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Piers Morgan
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No, our Ambassador grotesquely insulted the US President to the detriment of Britain's national interest. Trump is quite justified in being furious.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Interesting observation from Prof John Curtice. Votes for Remain parties: 52% Votes for Leave parties: 48%. But that's all over now.
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4 years
Let’s be clear. If we are interviewing people about politics their political views are relevant and we say so. If they are talking about a clinical matter like a global pandemic they are irrelevant. I don’t care how my doctor or nurse votes.
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Adam Boulton
2 years
Those now accepting " Cabinet" posts are making a massive career mistake.
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Adam Boulton
2 years
That's because we report the news rather than spout partisan fake news.
@ColinBrazierTV
Colin Brazier
2 years
Today: a 'helicopter day'; when Sky&BBC put up the chopper to follow cavalcades and lend announcements at No10 a lofty dignity. But aerial shots don't reflect what broadcasters often neglect on the ground. The millions who feel a debt of loyalty for the Brexit Boris gave them.
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Adam Boulton
2 years
Are the news organisations going light on #Partygate related to the hacks who were there?
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Adam Boulton
4 years
We are better than this surely?
@montie
Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧
4 years
Appointment of @HonTonyAbbott confirmed You lost @KayBurley ;)
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Adam Boulton
2 years
Nor alas does @afneil these days
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Andrew Neil
2 years
ANDREW NEIL says struggling Starmer has nothing to offer Britain via @MailOnline
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Adam Boulton
4 years
. @BorisJohnson message: never mind the evidence, never mind the questions. The only thing that matters is what I say.
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1 year
To sideline @GaryLineker and David Attenborough on the same day might be considered craven or foolhardy @BBC
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Adam Boulton
4 years
' @BorisJohnson complaining repeatedly that @Keir_Starmer the Leader of the Opposition not giving him unconditional support while not answering his questions. Does that work?
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Genuinely shocking that this wasn't happening already.
@MattHancock
Matt Hancock
4 years
NEWS: Everybody going from hospital into social care will be tested for #coronavirus & isolated whilst the result comes through to protect those most in need.
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Adam Boulton
1 year
Extraordinary Kate Hoey @BBCNewsnight going on unchallenged about « what the people of Northern Ireland voted for » without mentioning that they voted a. Remain b. For the Belfast Agreement.
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Adam Boulton
2 years
There is more than a whiff of snobbery, anti-semitism and Brexit wars in the harsh way Bercow is being treated.
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Adam Boulton
5 years
That’s where you are wrong. The latest drugs are patented and have one manufacturer. If you want them you can’t shop around. The UK has benefited from big purchaser power in the EU. That ends with Brexit.
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Maren Bennette
5 years
@adamboultonSKY Don't be a prat, Adam. If a petrol station charges £1.50/litre and another charges £1.25... who will you buy from? The NHS is not required to buy drugs from the most expensive source. I know because I was switched from felodopine to amlodopine, without problem, because of cost.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
This Prime Minister has knolwingly and repetedly put his own personal interest ahead of the interests of this country - @BenPBradshaw
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Adam Boulton
4 years
PS peerage is not an honour, People’s Peers fizzled out. Botham isn’t there because he is one of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Greatest cricketers but, like the others, because a party leader likes the cut of his politics. #AbolishtheLords
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Returning to work after member of household was symptomatic also breaks the rules.
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Adam Boulton
2 years
Very clear that @BorisJohnson is relying on @metpoliceuk intervention to delay a reckoning. That raises all sorts of difficult issues.
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Adam Boulton
5 years
We don’t. We just want to do our job reporting on politics and him to do his being a politician which in a democracy requires him talking not hiding.
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Adam Boulton
6 years
What’s the downside?
@TheNewEuropean
The New European - Think Without Borders
6 years
If we stay in the Customs Union, David Davis, Liam Fox and Boris Johnson could resign...
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Adam Boulton
2 years
A question worth asking….
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Totally incompetent of @UKgovt to brief draconian #coronavirus plans off the record in response to criticism.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
I don’t see why « journalists » like @JuliaHB1 @IainDale @spectator think it’s their job to act for the government, M’lud.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Definitely a Quote if the Year
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Comes to something when you come to London to protect monuments and end up p***ing on them.
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Adam Boulton
2 years
DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson seems to be making a good case for the UK not leaving the EU single market - the move he and his party supported.
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Adam Boulton
5 years
Kevin from Irish Independent to BJ: When you talk about people being dead in ditches I don't think you understand what's been happening here.
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Adam Boulton
5 years
Absurd that BBC is trying to turn May/Corbyn Brexit debate into a version of BBC Questiontime. It’s head-to-head or worthless. @jeremycorbyn is right on this.
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Adam Boulton
2 years
I’ll pass thanks
@DavidGHFrost
David Frost
2 years
Another chance to read my thoughts on Brexit, economics, net zero, and how the government works. Via @Telegraph and @LiamHalligan .
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Adam Boulton
2 years
RT off air in UK and EU as of this afternoon - not as a result of UK Government or @Ofcom action.
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Adam Boulton
2 years
Only 4 questions, no answers - that was not the performance of a PM in charge or who gets it.
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Adam Boulton
2 years
I am not a quitter says @sajidjavid . He has resigned from the cabinet twice.
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Adam Boulton
8 months
Now Speaker @LindsayHoyle_MP calls for recall of Parliament- What a stuff up!
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Gone bust?
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Adam Boulton
4 years
If positive will those ministers and MPs he’s come into contact with at Westminster all self isolate? Or will there be another rule for the elite?
@SkyNewsBreak
Sky News Breaking
4 years
Business Secretary Alok Sharma is self-isolating at home and will be tested for coronavirus after feeling unwell while he was in the parliamentary chamber this afternoon
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Adam Boulton
4 years
I’ve reached 200k followers this week which surprised me given the number of t****s I’ve blocked recently. Yes I know Piers has 7.6m and Trump 85.9m but you’re quality. Thank you 🙏.
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Adam Boulton
6 years
Brexiteer James Dyson has opted to build his new electric car in Singapore
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Polls and all objective evidence suggest Labour will never win an election with a Long-Bailey/Burgon team.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Tony Blair won 3 general elections and had a 25k majority in Sedgefield. Laura Pidcock lost her seat. Perhaps she should take off her headphones.
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Laura Pidcock
4 years
Vital to learn the lessons of Labour’s #GE2019 defeat. However, the answers will not be found at the door of New Labour’s architects. Blair’s legacy still hangs around this party like a millstone, especially in the North East. I heard it time & time again:
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Adam Boulton
8 months
Are we about to be plunged into a snap election again?
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Adam Boulton
4 years
On testing Why is the UK taking a different course from Apple, Google, Germany, Switzerland and other countries? Esceptionalism has not served well so far.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
I wish all you bots and trolls a pleasant weekend. I will continue to include what I want on my Twitter feed.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Congratulations to my Westminster Journalist colleagues for standing firm against Number 10's Baby Trumpism. Quite right.
@paulwaugh
Paul Waugh
4 years
Headline sums it up neatly.
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Adam Boulton
2 years
Rubbish and Cakeism. UK govt wanted to leave the single market and customs Union and these are the consequences.
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Christopher Meyer
2 years
In all the fury over Article 16 one thing is forgotten. The UK should never have accepted in the first place the avoidance of a hard border as our problem. It was always the EU’s-to protect the Single Market. We should have said: it’s your problem, you sort it. We don’t want one.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
The #Covid19UK Triple Whammy: Outbreak: Worst in Europe, Social: One of the longest lockdowns, Economic: Worst Recession says OECD.
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Fewer
@SkyNews
Sky News
6 years
Less youngsters believe university is important to succeeding in life
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Adam Boulton
7 months
In the internet age GB News cannot be shut down. The issue is whether it is fit to be treated as a broadcaster. It isn’t. There are standards in UK media which are worth upholding.
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Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧
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GBNews has some big issues to sort but here we go again - illiberal liberals like @adamboultonTABB rushing to censor and shut down alternative voices. Laurence Fox should be fired for repeated offences but closing down the whole station smacks of establishment authoritarianism.
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Adam Boulton
1 year
Yet again the alt right, in this case @Jacob_Rees_Mogg , trying to turn a simple case of bad behaviour by @DominicRaab into a constitutional debate, smearing alternative authorities. Rules for others but not for them.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Reminder @Douglas4Moray is an elected Conservative MP. Dominic Cummings isn't.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Major, May, Howard, Hague where’s @David_Cameron ?
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Not sure the nation needs a lecture from @michaelgove
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Adam Boulton
4 years
. @AngleaRayner I suppose [exempting Grouse shooting from rule of 8] is alright for the Prime Minister's friend who paid for his Caribbean Chrismas break, funded his leadership campaign and just happens to own two Grouse moors.
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Adam Boulton
5 years
No. Leaving without a deal was not a policy or commitment advocated by either the Labour or Conservative 2017 Manifestos. You lot are trying to turn a slogan into a subclause into a pledge. That is dishonest.
@DavidVick5
David Vick
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Hey @adamboultonSKY : Don't you owe the viewers an apology for this blatant lie ... or at the very least for being so woefully uninformed about something so basic?
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Adam Boulton
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Leaving EU with no deal is easier than doing the hard stuff.
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Adam Boulton
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Events in Barnard Castle appear to be clear violations of the rules even if trip to Durham wasn't.
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Adam Boulton
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Any other tw*ts out there who want to be muted?
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Anderson Cooper with the quote of the night: “We see him like an obese turtle on his back, flailing in the sun”
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Adam Boulton
3 years
The man in front lost two General Elections for @UKLabour the man behind won 3. Just saying.
@markhowell7
Mark Howell ❤💙
3 years
After two years as leader, the man in front won back 70% of the votes the man behind lost in ten.
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Adam Boulton
5 years
It doesn’t need any more crap advice from you
@SteveHiltonx
steve hilton
5 years
if Theresa May was as decent as establishment commentators say, she would resign now. Britain needs a new leader who: believes in Brexit understands there's no point 'negotiating' Brexit w the EU implements a clean break + pro-enterprise policy agenda to counteract disruption
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Adam Boulton
6 years
Wherever you stand on #Brexit that is pretty tragic.
@JuliaHB1
Julia Hartley-Brewer
6 years
Happy Brexit Day, everyone! Two years on, this is still one of the happiest moments of my life...
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Because they are the opposition they are not making the rules.
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Adam Boulton
2 years
I think a pantomime Damehood might be more appropriate for you @JuliaHB1
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Julia Hartley-Brewer
2 years
@PickardJE So do many thousands of others working in the NHS. Are they all getting knighthoods too?
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Adam Boulton
4 years
A. Independent Journalists doing their Job. Q. Who do you think you are? Who funds you? Who do you represent? Given that the UK has left the EU why does @LeaveEUOfficial still exist at all?
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Leave.EU
4 years
Who the hell do they think they are?
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Adam Boulton
2 years
With heartfelt thanks to all Sky colleagues past and present and almost all politicians:
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Adam Boulton
4 years
Just drove through Central London looked like lockdown and social distancing are over as far as those out and about are concerned .
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Adam Boulton
2 years
This I/v with Djokovic is drivel
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Adam Boulton
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Well JC had the better of that encounter with Jeremy Paxman.
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Adam Boulton
4 years
The first duty of any government is to protect its people. It’s not about you it is about @michaelgove & co.
@WestminsterWAG
Sarah Vine
4 years
We all have to die sooner or later. If I get Covid and cop it, so be it. My time has come. I'll have had a good life, better than most in this world at any rate. I certainly don't expect the entire nation to bankrupt itself to save my sorry ass.
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Adam Boulton
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Is there a legal basis or justification for the Met’s minimal info request ?
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Adam Boulton
5 years
Would be unfortunate if Conservatives manage to force Brexit through just as public opinion turns against it.
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